CELEX:62020CJ0145: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 14 July 2022.#DS v Porsche Inter Auto GmbH & Co KG and Volkswagen AG.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 – Approval of motor vehicles – Article 5(2) – Defeat device – Motor vehicles – Diesel engines – Emission control system – Software installed in the electronic engine controller – Exhaust gas recirculation valve (‘EGR valve’) – Reduction in nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions limited by a ‘temperature window’ – Prohibition on the use of defeat devices that reduce the effectiveness of emission control systems – Article 5(2)(a) – Exception to that prohibition – Consumer protection – Directive 1999/44/EC – Sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees – Article 2(2)(d) – Concept of ‘goods which show the quality and performance which are normal in goods of the same type and which the consumer can reasonably expect, given the nature of the goods’ – Vehicle covered by an EC type-approval – Article 3(6) – Concept of a ‘minor lack of conformity’.#Case C-145/20.

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CELEX:62020CJ0134: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 14 July 2022.#IR v Volkswagen AG.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 – Approval of motor vehicles – Article 3(10) – Article 5(1) and (2) – Defeat device – Motor vehicles – Diesel engines – Pollutant emissions – Emission control system – Software installed in the electronic engine controller – Exhaust gas recirculation valve (‘EGR valve’) – Reduction in nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions limited by a ‘temperature window’ – Prohibition on the use of defeat devices that reduce the effectiveness of emission control systems – Article 5(2)(a) – Exception to that prohibition – Directive 1999/44/EC – Sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees – Article 3(2) – Device installed during the repair of a vehicle.#Case C-134/20.

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CELEX:62019CJ0106: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 14 July 2022.#Italian Republic v Council of the European Union and European Parliament.#Action for annulment – Law governing the institutions – Regulation (EU) 2018/1718 – Location of the seat of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Amsterdam (Netherlands) – Article 263 TFEU – Admissibility – Interest in bringing proceedings – Locus standi – Direct and individual concern – Decision adopted by the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States in the margins of a Council meeting in order to determine the location of the seat of an EU agency – Absence of binding effects in the EU legal order – Prerogatives of the European Parliament.#Case C-106/19.

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CELEX:62021CJ0116: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 July 2022.#European Commission and Council of the European Union v VW and Others.#Appeal – Civil service – Pension – Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union – Article 20 of Annex VIII – Grant of a survivor’s pension – Surviving spouse of a former official in receipt of a retirement pension – Marriage entered into after termination of the official’s service – Condition that the marriage must have lasted for at least five years at the date of the official’s death – Article 18 of Annex VIII – Marriage entered into before termination of the official’s service – Condition that the marriage must have lasted for at least one year only – Plea of illegality in respect of Article 20 of Annex VIII – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Article 20 – Principle of equal treatment – Article 21(1) – Principle of non-discrimination on the ground of age – Article 52(1) – No arbitrary or manifestly inappropriate differentiation in the light of the objective pursued by the EU legislature.#Joined Cases C-116/21 P to C-118/21 P and C-138/21 P.

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CELEX:62020CJ0128: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 14 July 2022.#GSMB Invest GmbH & Co. KG v Auto Krainer Gesellschaft m.b.H.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 – Approval of motor vehicles – Article 3(10) – Article 5(1) and (2) – Defeat device – Motor vehicles – Diesel engines – Pollutant emissions – Emission control system – Software installed in the electronic engine controller – Exhaust gas recirculation valve (‘EGR valve’) – Reduction in nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions limited by a ‘temperature window’ – Prohibition on the use of defeat devices that reduce the effectiveness of emission control systems – Article 5(2)(a) – Exception to that prohibition.#Case C-128/20.

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