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Case C-404/19 P: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 17 December 2020 — French Republic v European Commission (Appeal — European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) — Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/2014 — Expenditure excluded from EU financing — Expenditure incurred by the French Republic — 100 % flat-rate correction — Proportionality — European Commission Guidelines on the calculation of the financial corrections in the framework of the conformity and financial clearance of accounts procedures)

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Case C-398/19: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 17 December 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Kammergericht Berlin — Germany) — Proceedings relating to the extradition of BY (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Citizenship of the European Union — Articles 18 and 21 TFEU — Extradition of a Union citizen to a third State — Person acquiring Union citizenship after transferring the centre of his or her interests to the Member State from which extradition is requested — Scope of EU law — Prohibition on extradition applied solely to own nationals — Restriction on freedom of movement — Justification based on the prevention of impunity — Proportionality — Information to the Member State of which the requested person is a national — Obligation on the Member State from which extradition is requested and the Member State of origin to ask the third State requesting extradition to send the criminal investigation file — No obligation)

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Case C-336/19: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 17 December 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Grondwettelijk Hof — Belgium) — Centraal Israëlitisch Consistorie van België and Others v Vlaamse Regering (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Protection of animals at the time of killing — Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 — Article 4(1) — Obligation to stun animals before they are killed — Article 4(4) — Derogation in the context of ritual slaughter — Article 26(2) — Power of Member States to adopt national rules aimed at ensuring more extensive protection of animals in the case of ritual slaughter — Interpretation — National legislation requiring, in the case of ritual slaughter, stunning which is reversible and cannot cause death — Article 13 TFEU — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Article 10 — Freedom of religion — Freedom to manifest religion — Limitation — Proportionality — Lack of consensus among the Member States of the European Union — Discretion afforded to Member States — Principle of subsidiarity — Validity — Differing treatment of ritual slaughter and the killing of animals during hunting or recreational fishing activities and cultural or sporting events — No discrimination — Articles 20, 21 and 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights)

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Case C-316/19: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 17 December 2020 — European Commission v Republic of Slovenia (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Article 343 TFUE — Privileges and immunities of the European Union — Statute of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and of the European Central Bank (ECB) — Article 39 — Privileges and immunities of the ECB — Protocol on the privileges and immunities of the European Union — Articles 2, 18 and 22 — Principle of the inviolability of the archives of the ECB — Seizure of documents at the premises of the Central Bank of Slovenia — Documents connected to the performance of the tasks of the ESCB and of the Eurosystem — Article 4(3) TEU — Principle of sincere cooperation)

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Case C-218/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 December 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation — France) — Adina Onofrei v Conseil de l’ordre des avocats au barreau de Paris, Bâtonnier de l’ordre des avocats au barreau de Paris, Procureur général près la cour d’appel de Paris (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Free movement of persons — Freedom of establishment — Access to the profession of lawyer — Exemption from training and diploma requirements — Grant of the exemption — Conditions — National legislation providing for an exemption for category A civil servants and former category A civil servants or for persons treated as such with experience in the professional practice of national law, on national territory, in the national civil service of the Member State concerned or in an international organisation)

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Case C-216/19: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 17 December 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin — Germany) — WQ v Land Berlin (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Common agricultural policy — Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 — Rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes — Basic payment scheme — First sentence of Article 24(2) — Concept of ‘eligible hectare at the farmer’s disposal’ — Illegal use of the area concerned by a third party — Article 32(2)(b)(ii) — Application for activation of payment entitlements for a wooded area — Meaning of ‘any area which gave a right to payments in 2008’ — Single payment scheme or single area payment scheme)

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Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 17 December 2020.#European Commission v Hungary.#Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Area of freedom, security and justice – Policies on border checks, asylum and immigration – Directives 2008/115/EC, 2013/32/EU and 2013/33/EU – Procedure for granting international protection – Effective access – Border procedure – Procedural safeguards – Compulsory placement in transit zones – Detention – Return of illegally staying third-country nationals – Appeals brought against administrative decisions rejecting the application for international protection – Right to remain in the territory.#Case C-808/18.

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Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 17 December 2020.#European Commission v Hungary.#Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Area of freedom, security and justice – Policies on border checks, asylum and immigration – Directives 2008/115/EC, 2013/32/EU and 2013/33/EU – Procedure for granting international protection – Effective access – Border procedure – Procedural safeguards – Compulsory placement in transit zones – Detention – Return of illegally staying third-country nationals – Appeals brought against administrative decisions rejecting the application for international protection – Right to remain in the territory.#Case C-808/18.

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Arrêt de la Cour (deuxième chambre) du 17 décembre 2020.#CLCV e.a. (Dispositif d’invalidation sur moteur diesel).#Renvoi préjudiciel – Rapprochement des législations – Règlement (CE) no 715/2007 – Article 3, point 10 – Article 5, paragraphe 2 – Dispositif d’invalidation – Véhicules à moteur – Moteur diesel – Émissions de polluants – Programme agissant sur le calculateur de contrôle moteur – Technologies et stratégies permettant de limiter la production des émissions de polluants.#Affaire C-693/18.

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Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 17 December 2020.#CLCV and Others (Defeat device on diesel engines).#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Juge d'instruction du tribunal de grande instance de Paris.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 – Article 3(10) – Article 5(2) – Defeat device – Motor vehicles – Diesel engines – Pollutant emissions – Programme acting on the electronic engine controller – Technologies and strategies to limit the production of pollutant emissions.#Case C-693/18.

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Opinion of Advocate General Tanchev delivered on 17 December 2020.#A.B. and Others v Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa and Others.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 2 and the second subparagraph of Article 19(1) TEU – Rule of law – Effective judicial protection – Principle of judicial independence – Procedure for appointment to a position as judge at the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court, Poland) – Appointment by the President of the Republic of Poland on the basis of a resolution emanating from the National Council of the Judiciary – Lack of independence of that council – Lack of effectiveness of the judicial remedy available against such a resolution – Judgment of the Trybunał Konstytucyjny (Constitutional Court, Poland) repealing the provision on which the referring court’s jurisdiction is based – Adoption of legislation declaring the discontinuance of pending cases by operation of law and precluding in the future any judicial remedy in such cases – Article 267 TFEU – Option and/or obligation for national courts to make a reference for a preliminary ruling and to maintain that reference – Article 4(3) TEU – Principle of sincere cooperation ‐ Primacy of EU law – Power to disapply national provisions which do not comply with EU law.#Case C-824/18.

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Case C-808/18: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 17 December 2020 — European Commission v Hungary (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Area of freedom, security and justice — Policies on border checks, asylum and immigration — Directives 2008/115/EC, 2013/32/EU and 2013/33/EU — Procedure for granting international protection — Effective access — Border procedure — Procedural safeguards — Compulsory placement in transit zones — Detention — Return of illegally staying third-country nationals — Appeals brought against administrative decisions rejecting the application for international protection — Right to remain in the territory)

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Case C-693/18: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 17 December 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Juge d’instruction du tribunal de grande instance de Paris — France) — Criminal proceedings against X (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Approximation of laws — Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 — Article 3(10) — Article 5(2) — Defeat device — Motor vehicles — Diesel engines — Pollutant emissions — Program acting on the electronic engine controller — Technologies and strategies to limit the production of pollutant emissions)

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