European Court of Justice (News)

Death of Judge Marko Ilešič

Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid
Posted Ukrainian workers: the Member State in which the works are carried out may impose an obligation to obtain a residence permit

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Approximation of laws
Advertising for biocidal products: EU law prohibits use of the indication ‘skin friendly’

Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Refugee status: a Member State is not required automatically to recognise refugee status granted in another Member State

Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Hamm
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
The granting of refugee status in a Member State precludes the extradition of the person concerned to his or her country of origin

Zamestnik-predsedatel na Darzhavna agentsia za bezhantsite
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Stateless persons of Palestinian origin registered with UNRWA should, in principle, be granted refugee status if UNRWA’s protection or assistance is considered to have ceased

Schrems
Principles of Community law
AG Rantos: Privacy: a public statement by the user of a social network about his or her sexual orientation renders those data ‘manifestly public’, without, however, permitting their processing for the purposes of personalised advertising

Stadt Duisburg
Citizenship of the Union
EU law does not, in principle, preclude the automatic loss of German nationality in the event of recovery of Turkish nationality

NW
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Citizenship of the European Union: the withdrawal, on the basis of classified information, of the residence permit of a third-country national bringing up a child who is a Union citizen must be subject to an effective remedy

Kneipp v EUIPO - Patou (Joyful by nature)
Intellectual and industrial property
EU trade marks: the General Court confirms that the reputation of a trade mark is acquired and, in general, lost progressively

Naass and Sea-Watch v Frontex
Law governing the institutions
The General Court partially annuls the Frontex decision refusing a request by Sea-Watch for access to documents

Heureka Group
Competition
Infringements of EU competition law: the former Czech rules on limitation are incompatible with EU law

Formal sitting for a eulogy in memory of John L. Murray, Philippe Léger and Waltraud Hakenberg

Escobar v EUIPO (Pablo Escobar)
Intellectual and industrial property
The name Pablo Escobar may not be registered as an EU trade mark

The final of the "European Law Moot Court" competition will take place tomorrow at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg

Puigdemont i Casamajó and Comín i Oliveres v Parliament
Law governing the institutions
Advocate General Szpunar: the refusal by the former President of the European Parliament to recognise the status of Carles Puigdemont and Antoni Comín as Members of the European Parliament in June 2019 must be annulled

Scania and Others v Commission
Competition
Cartel on the truck market: the Court dismisses Scania’s appeal

Symphony Environmental Technologies and Symphony Environmental v Parliament and Others
Law governing the institutions
Products made from oxo-degradable plastic: the General Court endorses the prohibition on the placing on the market

Dyrektor Izby Administracji Skarbowej w Lublinie
Taxation
VAT fraud: Employee using her employer’s details to issue fake invoices is liable for the amount of the taxes entered on them

Reti Televisive Italiane
Freedom of establishment
Hourly limit for television publicity spots: promotional announcements for radio programmes broadcast on television channels belonging to the same corporate group are not, in principle, announcements about those television channels’ own programmes