European Court of Justice (News)

Mr Koen Lenaerts is re-elected as President of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Partial renewal of membership and entry into office of nine new Members of the Court of Justice

Commission v Poland
Principles of Community law
La vice-présidente de la Cour rejette la demande de la Pologne de rapporter l’ordonnance du 14 juillet 2021 qui exige la suspension immédiate de l’application de dispositions nationales relatives notamment aux compétences de la chambre disciplinaire de la Cour suprême

Nord Stream 2 v Parliament and Council
Energy
Advocate General Bobek: Nord Stream 2 AG can challenge before the EU Courts the directive extending the scope of the Gas Directive to pipelines connecting the EU with third countries

Parliament v Council (Siège de l’Autorité européenne du travail) and in Joined Cases C-59/18 Italy v Council and
Law governing the institutions
Advocate General Bobek: The Court has no jurisdiction over the decisions of the representatives of the Member States locating the new seats of the European Medicines Agency and of the European Labour Authority

Landespolizeidirektion Steiermark
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
According to Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe, a Member State faced with persistent serious threats to public policy or internal security may reintroduce controls at its internal borders for longer than only six months

A (Franchissement de frontières en navire de plaisance)
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
A Member State may require its nationals to carry a valid identity card or passport when travelling to another Member State, irrespective of the means of transport used and the itinerary, subject to sanctions.

Sumal
Competition
The victim of an infringement of EU competition law committed by a parent company may seek compensation from that company’s subsidiary for the resulting loss

Consorzio Italian Management e Catania Multiservizi and Catania Multiservizi
Law governing the institutions
The Court clarifies its case-law in Cilfit concerning the situations in which national courts or tribunals of last instance are not subject to the obligation to make a reference for a preliminary ruling

LU
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
L’application du principe de reconnaissance mutuelle aux sanctions pécuniaires s’oppose à ce que l’autorité d’exécution remette en cause la qualification juridique donnée par l’autorité d’émission à l’agissement sanctionné

W. Ż. () and des affaires publiques de la Cour suprême - nomination)
Principles of Community law
Transfers without consent of a judge from one court to another or between two divisions of the same court are liable to undermine the principles of the irremovability of judges and judicial independence

The Treaties do not prohibit the Council from waiting, before adopting the decision concluding the Istanbul Convention on behalf of the European Union, for the ‘common accord’ of the Member States, but the Council cannot alter the procedure for concluding that convention by making that conclusion contingent on the prior establishment of such a ‘common accord’

Court of Auditors v Pinxten
Law governing the institutions
La Cour juge qu’un ancien membre de la Cour des comptes européenne a enfreint les obligations découlant de sa charge auprès de cette institution. Il est déchu de deux tiers de son droit à pension

TGSS (Chômage des employés de maison)
SOPO
Domestic workers in Spain: according to Advocate General Szpunar, legislation which excludes them from unemployment benefits, where those workers are almost exclusively women, is contrary to EU law

Commissaire général aux réfugiés and aux apatrides
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
According to Advocate General Pikamäe, EU law precludes a Member State from declaring an application for international protection automatically inadmissible when the applicant already has refugee status granted in another Member State

Front Polisario v Council
External relations
The General Court annuls the Council decisions concerning, first, the agreement between the European Union and Morocco amending the tariff preferences granted by the European Union to products of Moroccan origin and, second, the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement

NEC Corporation v Commission,Nichicon Corporation/Commission,Tokin/Commission,Rubycon et Rubycon Holdings/Commission, Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation/Commission
Competition
The General Court maintains the fines imposed by the Commission on several undertakings by reason of their participation in a cartel on the market for aluminium electrolytic capacitors and tantalum electrolytic capacitors

Kočner v EUROPOL
Principles of Community law
The General Court dismisses the action brought by M. Kočner against Europol in the context of the investigation into the murder of the journalist J. Kuciak and his fiancée M. Kušnírová

Entry into office of a new member of the General Court of the European Union

GSMB Invest,Volkswagen, Porsche Inter Auto et Volkswagen
Approximation of laws
According to Advocate General Rantos, the installation of software that alters the level of pollutant gas emissions of vehicles based on the outside temperature and the altitude is contrary to EU law, and such a vehicle is not in conformity with the contract of sale within the meaning of Directive 1999/44