Monthly Archives: December 2022

CELEX:62021CA0355: Case C-355/21: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Najwyższy — Poland) — Perfumesco.pl sp. z o.o., sp.k. v Procter & Gamble International Operations SA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Intellectual property — Directive 2004/48/EC — Enforcement of intellectual property rights — Article 10 — Corrective measures — Destruction of goods — Concept of ‘infringement of an intellectual property right’ — Goods bearing an EU trade mark)

CELEX:62021CA0199: Case C-199/21: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzgericht — Austria) — DN v Finanzamt Österreich (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social security — Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 — Articles 67 and 68 — Family benefits — Right to benefits under a pension — Pensioner in receipt of pensions from two Member States — Member State(s) in which that pensioner is entitled to family benefits — Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 — Third sentence of Article 60(1) — Legislation of a Member State providing for the award of family benefits to the parent who has taken the child into his or her household — Failure by that parent to claim the award of those benefits — Obligation to take into account the application submitted by the other parent — Request for the recovery of family benefits paid to the other parent — Whether permissible)

CELEX:62021CA0256: Case C-256/21: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht München — Germany) — KP v TV, Gemeinde Bodman-Ludwigshafen (Reference for a preliminary ruling — EU trade marks — Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Article 124(a) and (d) — Article 128 — Jurisdiction of EU trade mark courts — Action for infringement — Counterclaim for a declaration of invalidity — Withdrawal of the action for infringement — Outcome of the counterclaim — Autonomous nature of the counterclaim)

CELEX:62021CA0164: Joined Cases C-164/21 and C-318/21: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Administratīvā rajona tiesa, Administratīvā apgabaltiesa — Latvia) — ‘Baltijas Starptautiskā Akadēmija’ SIA (C-164/21), ‘Stockholm School of Economics in Riga’ SIA (C-318/21) v Latvijas Zinātnes padome (References for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 — Article 2(83) — Direct and unconditional reference to EU law — Admissibility of the questions — Research and development and innovation aid — Concept of ‘research and knowledge-dissemination organisation’ — Higher education establishment carrying on economic and non-economic activities — Determination of the primary goal)

CELEX:62021CA0064: Case C-64/21: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Najwyższy — Poland) — Rigall Arteria Management sp. z o.o. sp.k. v Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 86/653/EEC — Article 7(1)(b) — Self-employed commercial agents — Transaction concluded with a third party whom the commercial agent has previously acquired as a customer — Remuneration — Whether the agent’s right to commission is mandatory or supplementary)

CELEX:62020CA0713: Case C-713/20: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Centrale Raad van Beroep — Netherlands) — Raad van bestuur van de Sociale verzekeringsbank v X, Y v Raad van bestuur van de Sociale verzekeringsbank (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social security for migrant workers — Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 — Article 11(3)(a) and (e) — Person residing in one Member State and employed in another Member State — Employment contract or contracts entered into with a single temporary employment agency — Temporary work assignments — Intervening periods — Determination of the legislation applicable during intervening periods between temporary work assignments — Termination of the employment relationship)

CELEX:62021CA0001: Case C-1/21: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen sad Veliko Tarnovo — Bulgaria) — MC v Direktor na Direktsia ‘Obzhalvane i danachno-osiguritelna praktika’ Veliko Tarnovo pri Tsentralno upravlenie na Natsionalnata agentsia za prihodite (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Value added tax (VAT) — Directive 2006/112/EC — Article 273 — Measures to ensure the correct collection of VAT — Article 325(1) TFEU — Obligation to counter illegal activities affecting the financial interests of the European Union — VAT debts of a taxable legal person — National legislation which provides for the joint and several liability of the non-taxable manager of the legal person — Transfers made in bad faith by the manager — Depletion of the legal person’s assets leading to insolvency — Failure to pay the amounts of VAT payable by the legal person within the prescribed time limits — Default interest — Proportionality)

CELEX:62020CA0344: Case C-344/20: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the tribunal du travail francophone de Bruxelles — Belgium) — L.F. v SCRL (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 2000/78/EC — Establishment of a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation — Prohibition of discrimination on the ground of religion or belief — Internal rule of a private undertaking prohibiting any manifestation, in the workplace, of religious, philosophical or political belief — Prohibition including words, clothing, or any other means of manifesting those beliefs — Wearing of an item of religious clothing)

CELEX:62020CA0698: Case C-698/20: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Najwyższy — Poland) — Gmina Wieliszew v Syndyk masy upadłości Spółdzielczego Banku Rzemiosła i Rolnictwa w Wołominie w upadłości likwidacyjnej (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Structural Funds — European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) — Cohesion Fund — Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 — Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 — European Union funding — European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) — Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 — Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 — Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 — Grant agreement — Funds paid to a beneficiary into an account in an insolvent bank — National legislation not excluding those funds from the insolvency estate of that bank)

CELEX:62020CA0616: Case C-616/20: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 13 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Köln — Germany) — M2Beauté Cosmetics GmbH v Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Medicinal products for human use — Directive 2001/83/EC — Article 1(2)(b) — Concept of ‘medicinal product by function’ — No scientific study — Scientific knowledge on a structural analogue — Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 — Cosmetic product — Specific beneficial effects on human health — Direct or indirect beneficial effects — Positive effects on appearance)