European Court of Justice (News)

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Law governing the institutions
The award of public contracts may be made subject by law to a minimum wage

The Court of Justice of the European Union adds its voice to the tributes paid to the victims of the attacks of 13 November in Paris

ClientEarth v Commission
Law governing the institutions
According to the General Court, impact assessments intended to guide the Commission in drawing up its proposals for legislative acts are not, in principle, to be accessible to the public before those proposals have been disclosed

HSH Investment Holdings Coinvest-C and HSH Investment Holdings FSO v Commission
State aid
The General Court dismisses the action brought by two minority shareholders of HSH Nordbank and therefore upholds the Commission decision of 2011 authorising, under certain conditions, rescue measures in respect of that bank

Dyson v Commission
Energy
Dyson’s action for annulment of the regulation on energy labelling of vacuum cleaners is unsuccessful

Pujante Rivera
SOPO
The termination of an employment contract following the worker’s refusal to accept a significant unilateral change to essential elements of the contract which operates to his detriment constitutes a redundancy for the purpose of the directive on collective redundancies

Tecom Mican and Arias Domínguez
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
The Court defines for the first time the concept of extrajudicial documents of which the formal transmission to addressees residing in another Member State is necessary

GSA and SGI v Parliament
Public procurement
The General Court dismisses an action involving the award of a public service contract by the European Parliament for the supply of fire security, assistance to persons and external surveillance at the European Parliament’s site in Brussels

Approval of the proposed reform of the judicial framework of the Court of Justice of the European Union

BBVA
Approximation of laws
The time-limit for challenging mortgage enforcement proceedings in progress when a judgment of the Court of Justice was implemented in Spain is contrary to EU law

Portnov v Council
Common foreign and security policy
The General Court sets aside the freeze on the funds of Andriy Portnov, one-time adviser to the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych

New Media Online
SERV
The offer of short videos on a newspaper’s website may fall under audiovisual media services legislation

Hedqvist
Taxation
The exchange of traditional currencies for units of the ‘bitcoin’ virtual currency is exempt from VAT

van der Lans
Transport
Even in the event of a flight cancellation on account of unforeseen technical problems, air carriers are required to compensate passengers

Total v Commission
Competition
The Court of Justice reduces the fine imposed on Total jointly and severally with Total France from €128 million to €125 million

Commission v Italy
State aid
Due to its delay in recovering aid incompatible with the common market, Italy is ordered to pay a lump sum of €30 million and a fine of €12 million per semester of delay

Commission v Slovakia
Freedom of movement for persons
By limiting entitlement to disability benefits and the Christmas bonus for persons on a low income to Slovak residents, Slovakia has not failed to fulfil its obligations under an EU regulation

Alimanovic
DISC
A Member State may exclude Union citizens who go to that State to find work from certain non-contributory social security benefits

FCD and FMB
Approximation of laws
Articles incorporated as components of a complex product must be notified to the European Chemicals Agency when they contain a substance of very high concern in a concentration above 0.1%

Federación de Servicios Privados del sindicato Comisiones obreras
SOPO
The journeys made by workers without fixed or habitual place of work between their homes and the first and last customer of the day constitute working time