European Court of Justice (News)

Czech Republic v Poland
Environment and consumers
Poland is ordered to pay the European Commission a daily penalty payment of €500 000 because it has not ceased lignite extraction activities at Turów mine

Commission v Belgium and Magnetrol International
State aid
Tax exemptions granted by Belgium to multinational companies by way of rulings: the Commission correctly found that there was an aid scheme

Commission v Italy
Taxation
Italy has infringed EU law by exempting from excise duty fuels used for private pleasure craft, chartered and used by end users for non-commercial activities

CAPA and Others v Commission
State aid
Parcs éoliens en mer subventionnés par des aides au fonctionnement : le Tribunal rejette le recours introduit par une coopérative et des patrons pêcheurs contre la décision de la Commission de ne pas soulever d’objections

Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl (Demande ultérieure de protection internationale )
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
EU law precludes a subsequent application for international protection from being rejected as inadmissible on the sole ground that it is based on circumstances which already existed during the procedure relating to the first application

Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne
Agriculture and fisheries
The Court specifies the conditions for the protection of products covered by a protected designation of origin as laid down by the regulation establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products

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DFON
Advocate General Bobek proposes a unified test for the protection against double jeopardy (ne bis in idem) under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Commission v Council (Accord avec l’Arménie)
Law governing the institutions
The Court of Justice annuls the decisions of the Council on the application of the Partnership Agreement with Armenia

EPSU v Commission
SOPO
Appeal by EPSU: the Commission is not bound to give effect to the social partners’ request seeking implementation, at EU level, of the agreement that they have concluded

Irish Ferries
Transport
The Court of Justice clarifies a number of provisions of the regulation concerning passengers’ rights when travelling by sea and inland waterway

Ja zum Nürburgring v Commission
State aid
The Commission must re-examine whether the sale of the Nürburgring in 2014 entailed a grant of State aid

INPS () and de maternité pour les titulaires de permis unique)
Social security for migrant workers
Third-country nationals who hold a single work permit obtained pursuant to the Italian legislation transposing an EU directive are entitled to a childbirth allowance and a maternity allowance as provided for by the Italian legislation

Belgian State (Droit de séjour en cas de violence domestique)
Citizenship of the Union
According to the Court of Justice, a third-country national who has been the victim of acts of domestic violence committed by his or her spouse, who is a Union citizen, is not in a comparable situation to a third-country national who has been the victim of acts of domestic violence committed by his or her spouse, who is also a third-country national

Commission v Portugal (Taxe sur les véhicules)
Taxation
The rules for calculating the registration tax on second-hand vehicles imported into Portugal infringe the principle of the free movement of goods

Vodafone
Approximation of laws
‘Zero tariff’ options are contrary to the regulation on open internet access

OTP Jelzálogbank and Others
Approximation of laws
Hungarian legislation which prohibits the annulment of a loan agreement denominated in a foreign currency on the ground that it contains an unfair term relating to the exchange difference appears to be compatible with EU law

Homoki v Commission
Law governing the institutions
The General Court annuls OLAF’s decision not to grant partial access to the final report of its investigation relating to street-lighting projects implemented by the company Elios in Hungary with financial participation from the EU

Death of Mr Barna Berke, judge of the General Court of the European Union

Puigdemont i Casamajó and Others v Parliament
Le vice-président du Tribunal de l’Union européenne rejette la demande de suspension de la levée de l’immunité parlementaire de MM. Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó et Antoni Comín i Oliveres ainsi que de Mme Clara Ponsatí i Obiols

Thelen Technopark Berlin
Principles of Community law
In Advocate General Maciej Szpunar’s view, a national court hearing a dispute between individuals concerning a claim based on a national provision which fixes minimum tariffs for service providers in a manner that is contrary to the Services Directive must disapply such a national provision