Legal News

1. 132/2020 : 15 October 2020 - Opinion of the Advocate General in cases C-562/19 P,C-596/19 P

   Commission v Poland
   According to Advocate General Kokott, the Polish tax on the retail sector and the Hungarian advertisement tax do not infringe EU State aid rules
   

2. 131/2020 : 8 October 2020 - Order of the Court of Justice in Case C-201/20 P(R)

   Junqueras i Vies v Parliament
   Law governing the institutions
   Le pourvoi contre l’ordonnance du vice-président du Tribunal rejetant la demande de référé de M. Junqueras i Vies est aussi rejeté

3. 130/2020 : 8 October 2020 - Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-360/19

   Crown Van Gelder
   Freedom of establishment
   A customer may submit a complaint against the operator of the national grid following a power failure

4. 129/2020 : 8 October 2020 - Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-514/19

   Union des industries de la protection des plantes
   Approximation of laws
   France validly informed the Commission of the need to take measures intended, in particular, to protect bees

5. 128/2020 : 6 October 2020 - Formal sitting

   Entry into office of new Members at the Court of Justice of the European Union
   Entrée en fonctions des nouveaux membres à la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne
   

6. 127/2020 : 6 October 2020 - Judgment of the Court of Justice in Joined Cases C-245/19,C-246/19

   État luxembourgeois (Droit de recours contre une demande d’information en matière fiscale)
   DFON
   The right to an effective remedy guaranteed by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union requires that persons who hold information that is requested by the national administration, in the context of a cooperation procedure between Member States, must be able to bring a direct action against such a request. Nevertheless, Member States may deny the taxpayer subject to the tax investigation and the third parties concerned by the information in question the right to bring such a direct action, provided that there are other remedies enabling them to obtain an incidental review of that request

7. 126/2020 : 6 October 2020 - Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-181/19

   Jobcenter Krefeld
   Freedom of movement for persons
   Un ancien travailleur migrant et ses enfants bénéficiant d’un droit de séjour au titre de la scolarisation des enfants ne peuvent pas être automatiquement exclus de prestations sociales de base prévues par le droit national au motif que ce travailleur est tombé au chômage

8. 125/2020 : 6 October 2020 - Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-66/18

   Commission v Hungary (Enseignement supérieur)
   Freedom of establishment
   The conditions introduced by Hungary to enable foreign higher education institutions to carry out their activities in its territory are incompatible with EU law

9. 124/2020 : 6 October 2020 - Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-134/19 P

   Bank Refah Kargaran v Council
   Law governing the institutions
   The Court of Justice upholds the judgment of the General Court dismissing Bank Refah Kargaran’s action for damages for the harm suffered as a result of the restrictive measures adopted concerning it

10. 123/2020 : 6 October 2020 - Judgments of the Court of Justice in Cases C-511/18,C-512/18,C-520/18,C-623/17

    La Quadrature du Net and Others
    Approximation of laws
    The Court of Justice confirms that EU law precludes national legislation requiring a provider of electronic communications services to carry out the general and indiscriminate transmission or retention of traffic data and location data for the purpose of combating crime in general or of safeguarding national security