European Court of Justice (News)

FIGC and CONI
Competition
Advocate General Spielmann considers that EU law precludes legislation that does not allow national courts to annul unlawful sporting sanctions

Slagelse Almennyttige Boligselskab Afdeling Schackenborgvænge
Principles of Community law
Prohibition of discrimination: The Court of Justice clarifies, in relation to the Danish law on public housing, which situations may constitute discrimination based on ethnic origin

Sidi Bouzid
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
International protection: the refusal by an applicant for international protection to be transferred to another accommodation centre cannot justify the withdrawal of all material reception conditions

Amazon EU
Freedom of movement for persons
The imposition, by a national measure, of minimum charges for the home delivery of books must be analysed in the light of the rules on the free movement of goods

Storstockholms Lokaltrafik
Principles of Community law
GDPR: if a body camera is used during a ticket inspection, certain information must be provided immediately to the passenger concerned

SACD and Others
The rules on the admissibility of an action for infringement of the copyright in a collective work must ensure that the right to effective judicial protection is observed, by not making the procedure provided for unnecessarily complicated or costly

Hamoudi v Frontex
Action for damages brought against Frontex in a case of pushback: The Court of Justice protects the right to an effective judicial review

WS and Others v Frontex
Joint return operations: The judgment of the General Court dismissing the action for damages brought by a family of Syrian refugees after their transfer from Greece to Türkiye is largely set aside

Commission v Poland
Rule of law: The Polish Constitutional Court infringed several fundamental principles of EU law in disregard of the case-law of the Court of Justice

Barón Crespo v Parliament
Additional voluntary pension scheme: the actions of 405 former Members of Parliament or their legal successors challenging the reduction of their additional pension by half are dismissed

Locatrans
Rome Convention of 19 June 1980
Working in several countries: the Court clarifies how the law applicable is to be determined in the event of a change in the habitual place of work

Ryanair v Commission
State aid
Ryanair’s action against a decision by the Commission to approve restructuring aid of €2.55 billion granted by Portugal to TAP is dismissed

Intel Corporation v Commission
Competition
Microprocessors market: the General Court upholds the Commission's 2023 decision against Intel but reduces the fine by approximately € 140 million

Boothnesse
AG Medina: Under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the rule of speciality is an enforceable essential procedural guarantee

Mio and Others
Freedom of movement for persons
Copyright protection for utilitarian objects is subject to the same requirements as for other subject matter

Russmedia Digital and Inform Media Press
Freedom of movement for persons

Data protection: the operator of an online marketplace is responsible for the processing of personal data contained in advertisements published on its platform

Stichting Right to Consumer Justice and Stichting App Stores Claims
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
The Netherlands courts have jurisdiction to hear a representative action concerning the alleged anticompetitive conduct of Apple in relation to its App Store aimed at the Netherlands market

Heßler v Commission
Staff Regulations of Officials
EU officials: entitlement to a tax abatement for a child receiving training ends at the latest on the child’s 26th birthday

Wojewoda Mazowiecki
Citizenship of the Union: a Member State has the obligation to recognise a marriage between two Union citizens of the same sex that has been lawfully concluded in another Member State where they have exercised their freedom to move and reside

Ministero della difes
Advocate General Ćapeta: EU anti-discrimination legislation does not prevent a Member State from introducing compulsory vaccination for members of the military, even if is contrary to their personal views