European Court of Justice (News)

Freikirche der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten in Deutschland
Public subsidies paid to denominational private schools may be reserved for churches and religious societies recognised by the Member State concerned

Puig Gordi and Others
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
An executing judicial authority may not, in principle, refuse to execute a European arrest warrant on the basis that the court called upon to try the requested person in the issuing Member State does not have jurisdiction to do so

Solemn undertaking before the Court of Justice of the European Union given by six new Members of the European Court of Auditors

Inspecţia Judiciară
External relations
Judicial Disciplinary Bodies: according to Advocate General Collins, EU law precludes national legislation making the Deputy Chief Inspector responsible for overseeing the investigation of complaints against the Chief Inspector

Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti () and génétiques par la police)
Principles of Community law
The systematic collection of biometric and genetic data of any accused person in order for them to be entered in a police record is contrary to the requirement of ensuring enhanced protection with regard to the processing of sensitive personal data

De Capitani v Council
Law governing the institutions
The Council must grant access to documents drawn up within its working groups relating to the legislative procedure concerning the amendment of the directive on the annual financial statements

Unilever Italia Mkt. Operations
Competition
Abuse of a dominant position: exclusivity clauses in distribution contracts must be capable of having exclusionary effects

CIHEF and Others
Approximation of laws
The level of harmonisation achieved at EU level by the Biocidal Products Regulation does not prevent Member States from adopting restrictive rules on the promotion of sales of those products

Pesticide Action Network Europe and Others
Agriculture and fisheries
Protection phytosanitaire : les États membres ne peuvent pas déroger aux interdictions expresses de mise sur le marché et d’utilisation de semences traitées à l’aide de produits phytopharmaceutiques contenant des néonicotinoïdes

Udlændingenævnet (Examen linguistique imposé aux étrangers)
Freedom of movement for persons
Danish legislation which makes family reunification between a Turkish worker residing legally in Denmark and his or her spouse subject to the condition that that worker has successfully taken a test demonstrating a certain level of knowledge of Danish constitutes an unlawful 'new restriction'

Airbnb Ireland and Airbnb Payments UK
Short-term property rentals: EU law does not preclude the requirement to collect information or to withhold tax under a national tax regime
Short-term property rentals: EU law does not preclude the requirement to collect information or to withhold tax under a national tax regime

EUROAPTIEKA
Approximation of laws
The Latvian law banning the advertising of medicinal products on the basis of price, special sales or bundled sales of medicinal products and other products is compatible with EU law.

Generalstaatsanwaltschaft München (Demande d’extradition vers la Bosnie-Herzégovine)
Extradition of a Union citizen to a third State in order for him to serve a sentence in that State may be justified to prevent the risk of impunity

Louboutin (Usage d’un signe contrefaisant sur un marché en ligne)
Intellectual and industrial property

Market Place : Amazon fait elle-même usage du signe enregistré par Louboutin lorsque l’utilisateur de son site a l’impression que c’est elle qui commercialise, en son nom et pour son compte, des escarpins de la marque

Ministre de la Transition écologique and Premier ministre (Responsabilité de l’État pour la pollution de l’air)
Environment and consumers
Les directives européennes fixant des normes pour la qualité de l’air ambiant n’ont pas, comme telles, pour objet de conférer des droits aux particuliers dont la violation serait susceptible de leur ouvrir un droit à réparation

Grünig v Commission
External relations
Le Tribunal rejette les recours en annulation du règlement d’exécution concernant les droits antidumping sur les importations de certains PVAL originaires de Chine

E. Breuninger v Commission
State aid
The General Court dismisses as inadmissible the action brought by the retail undertaking Breuninger against the Commission’s decision approving aid granted by Germany to compensate for losses suffered as a result of lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis

E. Breuninger v Commission
State aid
The General Court dismisses the actions brought by Breuninger and Falke against the Commission’s decision approving German aid to undertakings which suffered, in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak, a loss of turnover of at least 30%

In the context of its 70th Anniversary, the Court bestows new names on some of its buildings

Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe v Commission
State aid
Tax rulings: The Court of Justice holds that the General Court was wrong to confirm the reference framework used by the Commission to apply the arm’s length principle to integrated companies in Luxembourg, in failing to take into account the specific rules implementing that principle in that Member State