Monthly Archives: February 2023

CELEX:62020CA0702: Joined Cases C-702/20 and C-17/21: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 12 January 2023 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākā tiesa (Senāts) — Latvia) — ‘DOBELES HES’ SIA (C-702/20), Sabiedrisko pakalpojumu regulēšanas komisija (C-17/21) (Reference for a preliminary ruling — State aid — Article 107(1) TFEU — National legislation imposing an obligation on the public operator to purchase from renewable energy producers at a price higher than the market price — Failure to pay a portion of the aid concerned — Application for compensation submitted by those producers to a public authority distinct from that which is, in principle, required, under that national legislation, to pay that aid and whose budget is intended solely to ensure its own operation — New aid — Notification requirement — De minimis aid — Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 — Article 5(2) — Cumulation — Taking into account the amounts of aid already received during the reference period on the basis of that national legislation)

CELEX:62019CA0883: Case C-883/19 P: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 12 January 2023 — HSBC Holdings plc, HSBC Bank plc, HSBC Continental Europe, formerly HSBC France v European Commission (Appeal — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Euro Interest Rate Derivatives sector — Decision establishing an infringement of Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement — Manipulation of the Euribor interbank reference rates — Exchange of confidential information — Restriction of competition by object — Characterisation — Taking into account of procompetitive effects — Single and continuous infringement — ‘Hybrid’ procedure having led successively to the adoption of a settlement decision and a decision made under the ordinary procedure — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Article 41 — Right to good administration — Article 48 — Presumption of innocence)

CELEX:62021TB0692: Case T-692/21: Order of the General Court of 22 December 2022 — AL v Commission (Civil service — OLAF investigation — Acts adopted by OLAF — Identification of the defendant — No act adversely affecting the applicant — Article 76(d) of the Rules of Procedure — Inadmissibility)

CELEX:62021TB0566: Case T-566/21: Order of the General Court of 7 December 2022 — Steinbach International v Commission (Action for annulment — Customs union — Common Customs Tariff — Tariff and statistical nomenclature — Classification in the Combined Nomenclature — Tariff heading — Regulatory act entailing implementing measures — No individual concern — Inadmissibility)

CELEX:62021TB0480: Case T-480/21: Order of the General Court of 22 December 2022 — British Airways v Commission (Action for annulment and for damages — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market for airfreight — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU, Article 53 of the EEA Agreement and Article 8 of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on Air Transport — Annulment by the General Court — Refusal of the Commission to pay default interest — Remedies — Limitation period — Time limit for bringing proceedings — Out of time — Act confirming a previous measure — Inadmissibility)

CELEX:62021TB0127: Case T-127/21: Order of the General Court of 21 December 2022 — Swissgrid v Commission (Action for annulment — Energy — European platforms for the exchange of standard products for balancing energy — Switzerland’s participation — Article 1(6) and (7) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2195 — Commission’s letter refusing the participation of the Swiss transmission system operator — Act not open to challenge — Inadmissibility)

CELEX:62020TB0706: Case T-706/20: Order of the General Court of 15 December 2022 — MiMedx Group v EUIPO — DIZG (Epiflex) (EU trade mark — Revocation proceedings — Withdrawal of the application for revocation — No need to adjudicate)

CELEX:62020TB0234: Case T-234/20: Order of the General Court of 8 December 2022 — HB v EIB (Civil service — Applicant who has ceased to reply to the Court’s requests — No need to adjudicate)

CELEX:62022TA0129: Case T-129/22: Judgment of the General Court of 21 December 2022 — Simba Toys v EUIPO — Master Gift Import (BIMBA TOYS) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark BIMBA TOYS — Earlier international word and figurative marks Simba — Earlier trade name Simba Toys GmbH & Co. KG — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Comparison of the goods — Article 8(4) of Regulation 2017/1001 — Proximity of the economic sectors)

CELEX:62022TA0044: Case T-44/22: Judgment of the General Court of 21 December 2022 — International Masis Tabak v EUIPO — Philip Morris Brands (Representation of a pack of cigarettes) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — International registration designating the European Union — Figurative mark representing a pack of cigarettes — Earlier international figurative mark Marlboro SELECTED PREMIUM TOBACCOS — Relative ground for refusal — Damage to reputation — Article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)