European Court of Justice (News)

Royal Football Club Seraing
Sports arbitration: AG Ćapeta proposes that awards by the Court of Arbitration for Sport must be open to full review by national courts to ensure the compatibility of FIFA rules with EU law

Ministarstvo financija
Citizenship of the Union
Erasmus+ grant: the amount paid to a student should not be taken into account in calculating the income tax of the parent on whom that student is dependent

MegaFon v Council
External relations
War in Ukraine: the General Court confirms the restrictive measures adopted against the Russian mobile telephone operator MegaFon

Beevers Kaas
Competition
Competition law and distribution deals: The exclusive distributor must be protected against active sales in its territory by all the supplier’s other buyers

Mousse
Principles of Community law
GDPR and rail transport: a customer’s gender identity is not necessary data for the purchase of a transport ticket

Bindl v Commission
Law governing the institutions
The General Court orders the Commission to pay damages to a visitor to its ‘Conference on the Future of Europe’ website as a result of the transfer of personal data to the United States

Loredas
Freedom of movement for persons
Organisation of working time: domestic employers must establish a system enabling the duration of the daily working time of each domestic worker to be measured

Caisse d’allocations familiales des Hauts-de-Seine
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
A Member State cannot exclude from the benefit of family allowances a foreign worker whose children, born in a third country, cannot prove that they have entered its territory lawfully

Ford Italia
Environment and consumers
Liability for defective products: a supplier may be considered to be a producer if his or her name is the same as the trade mark put on the product by the manufacturer

Kaduna
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Temporary protection for displaced persons from Ukraine: a Member State which has extended that protection to certain categories of persons, beyond what is required by EU law, may withdraw that protection from them without waiting for the temporary protection granted under EU law to end

Halmer Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft
Free movement of capital

A holding by purely financial investors in a law firm may be prohibited

Tudmur
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Asylum policy: The unilateral suspension of measures concerning the transfer of asylum seekers by the Member State responsible does not, in itself, justify the finding of systemic flaws

Mironovich Shor v Council
External relations
Destabilisation of Moldova: the General Court upholds the restrictive measures taken against Mr Shor and Ms Tauber in respect of their role in organising violent demonstrations

TP v Commission
Public procurement
In order to exclude a company from EU public procurement and grant award procedures, the authorising officer responsible must conduct a specific and individual assessment of the conduct of the operator concerned

Nemzeti Földügyi Központ
Free movement of capital
Rights of usufruct over agricultural land in Hungary: EU law does not preclude the reinstatement of such rights in accordance with a judgment of the Court of Justice, even where their initial registration was unlawful

Getin Holding
Freedom of establishment
The Court clarifies the rules concerning the independence of a national resolution authority and actions against its decisions in respect of failing financial institutions

HSBC Holdings and Others v Commission
Competition
Competition in the field of Euro Interest Rate Derivatives: the General Court confirms the Commission’s amended decision against HSBC

Nord Stream 2 v Parliament and Council
Energy
Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline: the General Court dismisses the action by Nord Stream 2 contesting the directive extending the internal market rules on natural gas to cover gas pipelines from third countries

Commission v Czech Republic
Citizenship of the Union
Citizenship of the Union: denying EU citizens residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals the right to become a member of a political party infringes EU law

NetCologne v Commission
Competition
Merger control: the General Court upholds the Commission decision authorising Vodafone’s acquisition of Liberty Global’s telecommunications activities in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania