Monthly Archives: January 2023

CELEX:62022CB0302: Case C-302/22: Order of the Court (Eight Chamber) of 3 October 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Eilenburg — Germany) — YS, RW v Freebird Airlines Europe Ltd. (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Air transport — Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 — Article 5(3) — Compensation for air passengers in the event of long delays to flights — Exemption from the obligation to pay compensation — Extraordinary circumstances — Collision between an aircraft and birds — Emergency braking manoeuvre leading to damage to the tyres of that aircraft)

CELEX:62022CB0056: Case C-56/22: Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 8 September 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the tribunal de première instance de Liège — Belgium) — PL v État belge (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 53(2) and Article 94 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Requirement to set out the factual and legislative context of the dispute in the main proceedings and the reasons justifying the need for an answer to the question referred for a preliminary ruling — Lack of sufficient information — Manifest inadmissibility)

CELEX:62021CB0569: Case C-569/21: Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 17 November 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Ministero dell’Interno, Presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri v PF (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Social policy — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Directive 2000/78/EC — Article 2(2), Article 4(1) and Article 6(1) — Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age — National legislation fixing a maximum age limit of 30 years for the recruitment of technical psychologist commissioners — Justification)

CELEX:62021CB0113: Case C-113/21 P: Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 6 September 2022 — Maen Haikal v Council of the European Union (Appeal — Article 181 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures taken against the Syrian Arab Republic — Measures directed against leading businesspersons operating in Syria — Lists of persons subject to the freezing of funds and economic resources — Proof that the inclusion of the appellant’s name on those lists is well founded — Appeal manifestly inadmissible or manifestly unfounded)

CELEX:62021CA0578: Case C-578/21 P: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 17 November 2022 — Irish Wind Farmers’ Association Clg, Carrons Windfarm Ltd, Foyle Windfarm Ltd, Greenoge Windfarm Ltd v European Commission (Appeal — State aid — Article 107(1) TFEU — Article 108(2) and (3) TFEU — Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 — Article 4 — Member State legislation on business property taxation — Methods for valuation of property used to calculate the basis of assessment of the rate payable — Complaint from wind farm operators — Allegation of an under-assessment of the basis of assessment for the business rate payable by fossil fuel electricity producers and, consequently, of a level of business rate of those electricity generators lower than that of other electricity producers due to the choice of valuation method used — Preliminary examination procedure — Decision finding that there is no State aid — No economic and selective advantage — Failure to initiate the formal investigation procedure — Concept of ‘serious difficulties’ — Extent of the European Commission’s investigative duty — Principle of sound administration — Obligation to conduct the investigation procedure diligently and impartially — Scope of review by the General Court of the European Union)

CELEX:62021CA0443: Case C-443/21: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 17 November 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Piteşti — Romania) — SC Avicarvil Farms SRL v Ministerul Agriculturii şi Dezvoltării Rurale, Agenţia pentru Finanţarea Investiţiilor Rurale, Agenţia de Plăţi şi Intervenţie în Agricultură, Agenţia de Plăţi şi Intervenţie în Agricultură — Centrul Judeţean Vâlcea (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Common agricultural policy (CAP) — European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) — Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 — Article 40 — National rural development programme 2007-2013 — Animal welfare payments — Calculation errors — Reductions in payments by the national authorities — Principle of the protection of legitimate expectations — Principle of legal certainty)

CELEX:62021CA0350: Case C-350/21: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 17 November 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski gradski sad — Bulgaria) — Criminal proceedings initiated by the Spetsializirana prokuratura (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector — Confidentiality of communications — Providers of electronic communications services — General and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data for a period of six months — Combating serious crime — Access to the retained data — Informing the data subjects — Right to a remedy — Directive 2002/58/EC — Article 15(1) and (2) — Directive (EU) 2016/680 — Articles 13 and 54 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Articles 7, 8, 11 and 47 and Article 52(1))

CELEX:62021CA0304: Case C-304/21: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 17 November 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — VT v Ministero dell’Interno and Ministero dell’Interno — Dipartimento della Pubblica Sicurezza — Direzione centrale per le risorse umane (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Directive 2000/78/EC — Article 2(2), Article 4(1) and Article 6(1) — Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age — National legislation fixing a maximum age limit of 30 years for the recruitment of police commissioners — Justification)

CELEX:62021CA0243: Case C-243/21: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 17 November 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie — Poland) — ‘TOYA’ sp. z o.o., Polska Izba Informatyki i Telekomunikacji v Prezes Urzędu Komunikacji Elektronicznej (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Telecommunications — Directive 2002/19/EC (Access Directive) — Article 8(3) — Directive 2014/61/EU — Articles 1(3), 1(4) and 3(5) — Power of the national regulatory authority to impose ex ante regulatory conditions relating to access to the physical infrastructure of a network operator not having significant market power — Absence of a dispute relating to access)

CELEX:62021CA0238: Case C-238/21: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 November 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark — Austria) — Porr Bau GmbH v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Graz-Umgebung (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Waste — Directive 2008/98/EC — Point 1 of Article 3 — Article 5(1) — Article 6(1) — Excavated materials — Concepts of ‘waste’ and of ‘by-product’ — Cessation of waste status)