Monthly Archives: December 2022

CELEX:62021CA0362: Case C-362/21: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 20 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen sad Veliko Tarnovo — Bulgaria) –- ‘EKOFRUKT’ EOOD v Direktor na Direktsia ‘Obzhalvane i danachno-osiguritelna praktika’ — Veliko Tarnovo (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Internal market — Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 — Point 12 of Article 3 — Concept of ‘qualified electronic signature’ — Article 25(1) — Article 26 — Annex I — Legal effects of electronic signatures — Requirements relating to an advanced electronic signature — Administrative act issued in the form of an electronic document, the electronic signature of which does not meet the requirements of a ‘qualified electronic signature’ — Cumulative requirements — Consequences — Point 15 of Article 3 — Absence of a ‘qualified certificate for electronic signature’ — Qualified electronic signature entered in the certificate issued by the trust service provider — Effect — Names of the holder of the electronic signature having been written in the Latin alphabet rather than being written, as was customary, in Cyrillic script)

CELEX:62021CA0295: Case C-295/21: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 20 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Bruxelles — Belgium) — Allianz Benelux SA v État belge, SPF Finances (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member States — Directive 90/435/EEC — Article 4(1) — Exemption in favour of a parent company of the dividends paid by its subsidiary — Carrying over definitively taxed income surpluses to subsequent tax years — Absorption of a company with definitively taxed income surpluses by another company — National legislation limiting the transfer of those surpluses to the absorbing company)

CELEX:62021CA0301: Case C-301/21: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 20 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Oradea — Romania) — Curtea de Apel Alba Iulia and Others v YF and Others (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Directive 2000/78/EC — Article 2(1) and (2) — Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age — National legislation which leads to a situation in which the remuneration of certain judges is higher than that of other judges of the same rank and performing the same work — Article 1 — Purpose — Exhaustive nature of the discrimination referred to)

CELEX:62021CA0197: Case C-197/21: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 27 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein oikeus — Finland) — Soda-Club (CO2) SA, SodaStream International BV v MySoda Oy (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Trade-mark law — Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Article 15(2) — Directive (EU) 2015/2436 — Article 15(2) — Exhaustion of the rights conferred by the trade mark — Cylinders containing carbon dioxide — Placing on the market in a Member State by the trade mark proprietor — Activity of a reseller consisting in refilling and relabelling cylinders — Opposition brought by the trade mark proprietor — Legitimate reasons to oppose further commercialisation of the goods bearing the trade mark)

CELEX:62021CA0129: Case C-129/21: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 27 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Brussel — Belgium) — Proximus NV v Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Processing of personal data and protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector — Directive 2002/58/EC — Article 12 — Public telephone directories and directory enquiry services — Subscriber’s consent — Obligations of the provider of directories and of directory enquiry services — Regulation (EU) 2016/679 — Article 17 — Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) — Article 5(2) — Article 24 — Information obligations and responsibility of the controller)

CELEX:62020CJ0460: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 8 December 2022.#TU and RE v Google LLC.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Directive 95/46/EC – Article 12(b) – Point (a) of the first paragraph of Article 14 – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 17(3)(a) – Operator of an internet search engine – Research carried out on the basis of a person’s name – Displaying a link to articles containing allegedly inaccurate information in the list of search results – Displaying, in the form of thumbnails, photographs illustrating those articles in the list of results of an image search – Request for de-referencing made to the operator of the search engine – Weighing-up of fundamental rights – Articles 7, 8, 11 and 16 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Obligations and responsibilities of the operator of the search engine in respect of processing a request for de-referencing – Burden of proof on the person requesting de-referencing.#Case C-460/20.

CELEX:62021CJ0769: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 8 December 2022.#AAS „BTA Baltic Insurance Company” v Iepirkumu uzraudzības birojs and Tieslietu ministrija.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Administratīvā rajona tiesa.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Public procurement – Directive 2014/24/EU – Article 18(1) – Principles of equal treatment, transparency and proportionality – Decision to withdraw an invitation to tender – Tenders submitted separately by two tenderers belonging to the same economic operator and constituting the two most economically advantageous tenders – Refusal of the successful tenderer to sign the contract – Decision of the contracting authority to refuse the tender of the next tenderer, terminate the procedure and issue a new call for tenders.#Case C-769/21.

CELEX:62020CJ0460: Sodba Sodišča (veliki senat) z dne 8. decembra 2022.#TU in RE proti Google LLC.#Predlog za sprejetje predhodne odločbe, ki ga je vložilo Bundesgerichtshof.#Predhodno odločanje – Varstvo posameznikov pri obdelavi osebnih podatkov – Direktiva 95/46/ES – Člen 12(b) – Člen 14, prvi odstavek, točka (a) – Uredba (EU) 2016/679 – Člen 17(3)(a) – Upravljavec spletnega iskalnika – Iskanje na podlagi imena osebe – Prikaz povezave do člankov, ki vsebujejo domnevno netočne informacije, na seznamu zadetkov iskanja – Prikaz v obliki predoglednih sličic (thumbnails) fotografij, s katerimi je ilustriran ta članek, na seznamu zadetkov slikovnega iskanja – Zahteva za odstranitev povezav, naslovljena na upravljavca iskalnika – Tehtanje temeljnih pravic – Členi 7, 8, 11 in 16 Listine Evropske unije o temeljnih pravicah – Obveznosti in odgovornosti upravljavca iskalnika pri obravnavi zahteve za odstranitev povezav – Dokazno breme, ki ga nosi vlagatelj zahteve za odstranitev povezav.#Zadeva C-460/20.

CELEX:62021CJ0769: Sodba Sodišča (deseti senat) z dne 8. decembra 2022.#AAS „BTA Baltic Insurance Company” proti Iepirkumu uzraudzības birojs in Tieslietu ministrija.#Predlog za sprejetje predhodne odločbe, ki ga je vložilo Administratīvā rajona tiesa.#Predhodno odločanje – Javna naročila – Direktiva 2014/24/EU – Člen 18(1) – Načela enakega obravnavanja, preglednosti in sorazmernosti – Odločitev o umiku javnega razpisa – Ponudbi, ki ju ločeno vložita ponudnika, ki sta del istega gospodarskega subjekta, in ki sta ekonomsko najugodnejši ponudbi – Zavrnitev izbranega ponudnika, da podpiše pogodbo – Odločitev naročnika, da zavrne ponudbo naslednjega ponudnika, da postopek ustavi in da začne nov postopek javnega naročanja.#Zadeva C-769/21.

CELEX:62022TJ0159: Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 7 December 2022.#Sanetview, SLU v European Union Intellectual Property Office.#Case T-159/22.