Daily Archives: 8 August, 2022

CELEX:62021CA0229: Case C-229/21: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 June 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Bruxelles — Belgium) — Port de Bruxelles, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale v Infrabel SA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Trans-European transport network — Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 — Article 15(1) — Inland waterways transport infrastructures — Inland ports — Obligation of a Member State to connect inland ports with road or rail transport infrastructures — Removal of the connection with one of those two types of transport infrastructure — Conditions)

CELEX:62020CA0700: Case C-700/20: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 20 June 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Queen’s Bench Division (Commercial Court) — United Kingdom) — London Steam-Ship Owners’ Mutual Insurance Association Limited v Kingdom of Spain (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Recognition of a judgment given in another Member State — Grounds for non-recognition — Article 34(3) — Judgment irreconcilable with a judgment given in a dispute between the same parties in the Member State in which recognition is sought — Conditions — Whether the prior judgment entered in the terms of an arbitral award complies with the provisions and fundamental objectives of Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Article 34(1) — Recognition manifestly contrary to public policy in the Member State in which recognition is sought — Conditions)

CELEX:62021CA0065: Joined Cases C-65/21 P and C-73/21 P to C-75/21 P: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 June 2022 — SGL Carbon SE (C-65/21 P), Química del Nalón SA, formerly Industrial Química del Nalón SA (C-73/21 P), Deza a.s. (C-74/21 P), Bilbaína de Alquitranes SA (C-75/21 P) v European Commission, Kingdom of Spain, European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) (Appeals — Environment — Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 — Classification, labelling and packaging of certain substances and mixtures — Regulation (EU) No 944/2013 — Classification of pitch, coal tar, high-temp as an Aquatic Acute 1 (H400) toxic substance and as an Aquatic Chronic 1 (H410) toxic substance — Annulment — Actions for damages)

CELEX:62020CA0596: Case C-596/20: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 16 June 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Törvényszék — Hungary) — DuoDecad Kft. v Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Fellebbviteli Igazgatósága (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Taxation — Common system of value added tax (VAT) — Directive 2006/112/EC — Articles 2, 24 et 43 — Place of supply of services — Technical support services provided to a company established in another Member State — Abuse of rights — Assessment of the facts — Lack of jurisdiction)

CELEX:62020CA0661: Case C-661/20: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 22 June 2022 — European Commission v Slovak Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 92/43/EEC — Article 6(2) and (3) — Conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora — Directive 2009/147/EC — Article 4(1) — Conservation of wild birds — Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) — Forest management strategies — Emergency felling — Appropriate assessment of their implications — Natura 2000 sites — Special protection areas designated for the conservation of the capercaillie — Absence of measures to prevent the deterioration of habitats and of special conservation measures in certain areas)

CELEX:62020CA0534: Case C-534/20: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 June 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesarbeitsgericht — Germany) — Leistritz AG v LH (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data — Regulation (EU) 2016/679 — Second sentence of Article 38(3) — Data protection officer — Prohibition of the dismissal, by a controller or processor, of a data protection officer or of the imposition, by a controller or processor, of a penalty on him or her for performing his or her tasks — Legal basis — Article 16 TFEU — Requirement of functional independence — National legislation prohibiting the termination of a data protection officer’s employment contract without just cause)

CELEX:62020CA0267: Case C-267/20: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 June 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Provincial — León — Spain) — AB Volvo, DAF TRUCKS NV v RM (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Article 101 TFEU — Directive 2014/104/EU — Articles 10, 17 and 22 — Actions for damages for infringements of the provisions of EU competition law — Limitation period — Rebuttable presumption of harm — Quantification of harm suffered — Belated transposition of the directive — Temporal application — Substantive and procedural provisions)

CELEX:62020CA0577: Case C-577/20: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 16 June 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus — Finland) — Proceedings brought by A (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Recognition of professional qualifications — Directive 2005/36/EC — Article 2 — Scope — Article 13(2) — Regulated professions — Conditions for pursuing the profession of psychotherapist in a Member State on the basis of a diploma in psychotherapy issued by a university established in another Member State — Articles 45 and 49 TFEU — Freedom of movement and freedom of establishment — Assessment of the equivalence of the relevant training — Article 4(3) TEU — Principle of sincere cooperation between Member States — Conditions on the basis of which the host Member State may challenge the level of knowledge and qualifications attested to by a diploma issued in another Member State)

CELEX:62021TB0334: Case T-334/21: Order of the General Court of 13 June 2022 — Mendes de Almeida v Council (Civil service — Appointment of the European Prosecutors of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office — Appointment of one of the candidates nominated by Portugal — No dispute between the Union and one of its servants within the limits and under the conditions laid down in the Staff Regulations and the CEOS — Article 270 TFEU — Manifest lack of jurisdiction)

CELEX:62021TB0246: Case T-246/21: Order of the General Court of 14 June 2022 — FJ and Others v EEAS (Civil Service — Officials — Remuneration — EEAS staff posted to a third country — Interim update of correction coefficients — Manifest error of assessment — Retroactive effect — Legal certainty — Duty to have regard for the welfare of officials — Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)