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Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 8 October 2020.#Crown Van Gelder BV v Autoriteit Consument en Markt.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Internal market for electricity – Directive 2009/72/EC – Article 37 – Duties and powers of the regulatory authority – Out-of-court dispute settlement – Concept of ‘party having a complaint’ – Complaint submitted by a final customer against the operator of a transmission system to which that customer’s installation is not directly connected – Failure on the grid – No contractual relationship between that customer and the operator of that grid – Admissibility of the complaint.#Case C-360/19.

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Arrêt de la Cour (septième chambre) du 8 octobre 2020.#Staatssecretaris van Financiën contre Exter BV.#Renvoi préjudiciel – Union douanière – Règlement (CEE) no 2913/92 – Code des douanes communautaire – Article 121, paragraphe 1 – Régime du perfectionnement actif – Mise en libre pratique – Naissance d’une dette douanière – Détermination de la dette – Notion d’“éléments de taxation” – Prise en compte d’une mesure tarifaire préférentielle.#Affaire C-330/19.

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Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 8 October 2020.#Staatssecretaris van Financiën v Exter BV.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Customs union — Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 — Community Customs Code — Article 121(1) — Inward processing procedure — Release for free circulation — Incurrence of a customs debt — Determination of the debt — Concept of ‘taxation elements’ — Taking account of a preferential tariff measure.#Case C-330/19.

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Arrêt de la Cour (première chambre) du 8 octobre 2020.#United Biscuits (Pensions Trustees) Limited et United Biscuits Pension Investments Limited contre Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.#Renvoi préjudiciel – Taxe sur la valeur ajoutée (TVA) – Directive 2006/112/CE – Article 135, paragraphe 1, sous a) – Exonération des opérations d’assurance – Fourniture de services de gestion des fonds de pension au fiduciaire par les gestionnaires de placements – Exclusion de toute indemnisation de risque – Régime professionnel de pension – Pratique fiscale nationale – Exercice d’une activité d’assurance – Entités disposant d’un agrément – Entités ne disposant pas d’un tel agrément – Notion d’“opérations d’assurance”.#Affaire C-235/19.

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Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 8 October 2020.#United Biscuits (Pensions Trustees) Limited and United Biscuits Pension Investments Limited v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Value added tax (VAT) – Directive 2006/112/EC – Article 135(1)(a) – Exemption of insurance transactions – Supply of pension fund management services to trustees by investment fund managers – Exclusion of any risk indemnity – Occupational pension scheme – National tax practice – Exercise of an insurance activity – Authorised entities – Entities not holding such authorisation – Concept of ‘insurance transactions’.#Case C-235/19.

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Opinion of Advocate General Hogan delivered on 8 October 2020.#Pometon SpA v European Commission.#Appeal – Agreements, decisions and concerted practices – European steel abrasives market – Participation in bilateral and multilateral contacts with the aim of coordinating prices throughout the European Economic Area (EEA) – ‘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 – Principle of impartiality of the European Commission – Article 48 – Presumption of innocence – Obligation to state reasons – Single and continuous infringement – Duration of the infringement – Equal treatment – Unlimited jurisdiction.#Case C-440/19 P.

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Opinion of Advocate General Richard de la Tour delivered on 8 October 2020.#AV.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Gdańsku.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Judicial cooperation in criminal matters – Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA – Article 8(2) and (4): – Article 17(1) and (2) – Article 19 – Taking into account, for the purposes of an aggregate sentence, of a conviction delivered in another Member State, which must be enforced in the Member State in which that judgment is delivered – Conditions – Framework Decision 2008/675/JHA – Article 3(3) – Concept of ‘interference with a sentence or its execution’ which must be taken into account in the event of new criminal proceedings initiated in a Member State other than that in which the ruling was delivered.#Case C-221/19.

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Opinion of Advocate General Pikamäe delivered on 8 October 2020.#Agenzia delle Dogane v Silcompa SpA.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 76/308/EEC – Articles 6 and 8 and Article 12(1) to (3) – Mutual assistance for the recovery of certain claims – Excise duty payable in two Member States for the same transactions – Directive 92/12/EC – Articles 6 and 20 – Release of products for consumption – Falsification of the accompanying administrative document – Offence or irregularity committed in the course of movement of products subject to excise duty under a duty suspension arrangement – Irregular departure of products from a suspension arrangement – ‘Duplication of the tax claim’ relating to the excise duties – Review carried out by the courts of the Member State in which the requested authority is situated – Refusal of the request for assistance made by the competent authorities of another Member State – Conditions.#Case C-95/19.

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Case C-711/19: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Austria) — Admiral Sportwetten GmbH, Novomatic AG, AKO Gastronomiebetriebs GmbH v Magistrat der Stadt Wien (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive (EU) 2015/1535 — Article 1 — Procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical regulations and of rules on Information Society services — Definition of ‘technical regulation’ — Games of chance — Local duty on the operation of betting terminals — Tax rule — European Commission not notified — Enforceability against the taxpayer)

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Case C-657/19: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof — Germany) — Finanzamt D v E (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Value added tax (VAT) — Directive 2006/112/EC — Exemptions — Article 132(1)(g) — Supply of services closely linked to welfare and social security work — Preparation of expert reports on the level of care and support needs — Taxable person appointed by the medical service of a care and support insurance fund — Bodies recognised as being devoted to social wellbeing)

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Case C-644/19: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Alba Iulia — Romania) — FT v Universitatea ‘Lucian Blaga’ Sibiu, GS and Others, HS, Ministerul Educaţiei Naţionale (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 2000/78/EC — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Articles 1, 2 and 3 — Directive 1999/70/EC — Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP — Clause 4 — Principle of non-discrimination — Measure taken by a university pursuant to national law — Retention of tenured lecturer status beyond the statutory retirement age — Possibility restricted to lecturers with doctoral supervisor status — Lecturers who do not have this status — Fixed-term employment contracts — Lower remuneration than for tenured lecturers)

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Case C-641/19: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Hamburg — Germany) — EU v PE Digital GmbH (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Consumer protection — Directive 2011/83/EU — Point 11 of Article 2, Article 14(3) and Article 16(m) — Distance contract — Supply of digital content and digital services — Right of withdrawal — Obligations of the consumer in the event of withdrawal — Determination of the amount to be paid by the consumer for the services provided before the exercise of the right of withdrawal — Exception to the right of withdrawal in the case of the supply of digital content)

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Case C-602/19: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Köln — Germany) — kohlpharma GmbH v Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Articles 34 and 36 TFEU — Free movement of goods — Quantitative restrictions — Measures having equivalent effect — Refusal to approve an amendment to the particulars and documents relating to a medicinal product which is the subject of a parallel import licence — Protection of the health and life of humans — Directive 2001/83/EC)

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Case C-568/19: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla-La Mancha — Spain) — MO v Subdelegación del Gobierno en Toledo (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Directive 2008/115/EC — Common standards and procedures for returning illegally staying third-country nationals — Article 6(1) and Article 8(1) — Illegal stay — National legislation providing for either a fine or removal, depending on the circumstances — Consequences of the judgment of 23 April 2015, Zaizoune (C-38/14, EU:C:2015:260) — National legislation more favourable to the interested party — Direct effect of directives — Limits)

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Case C-558/19: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunalul Cluj — Romania) — Impresa Pizzarotti & C SPA Italia Sucursala Cluj v Agenţia Naţională de Administrare Fiscală — Direcţia Generală de Administrare a Marilor Contribuabili (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Articles 49 and 63 TFEU — Freedom of establishment — Free movement of capital — Calculation of the taxable income of companies — Persons having a relationship of interdependence — Unusual advantage granted by a resident branch to a non-resident company — Correction of the taxable income of the branch of a non-resident company — No correction of taxable income in the event of an identical advantage granted by a branch to a resident company — Principle of free competition — Restriction on freedom of establishment — Justification — Balanced allocation of the power to tax between Member States — Proportionality)

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Case C-514/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Union des industries de la protection des plantes v Premier Ministre, Ministre de la Transition écologique et solidaire, Ministre des Solidarités et de la Santé, Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 — Placing of plant protection products on the market — Emergency measures — Officially informing the European Commission — Directive (EU) 2015/1535 — Procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical regulations — Neonicotinoids — Protection of bees — Principle of sincere cooperation)

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Case C-476/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Kammarrätten i Göteborg — Sweden) — Allmänna ombudet hos Tullverket v Combinova AB (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Union Customs Code — Article 124(1)(k) — Extinction of the customs debt in the event the goods are not used — Concept of ‘goods that have been used’ — Inward processing procedure — Customs debt incurred through non-compliance with requirements provided for under the inward processing procedure — Bill of discharge not submitted within the prescribed time limit)

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Case C-456/19: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Svea hovrätt, Patent- och marknadsöverdomstolen — Sweden) — Aktiebolaget Östgötatrafiken v Patent- och registreringsverket (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Trade marks — Directive 2008/95/EC — Article 3(1)(b) — Signs of which a trade mark may consist — Distinctive character — Application for registration as a trade mark of a sign in respect of a service, consisting of motifs of colour and intended to be affixed to goods used to provide that service — Assessment of the distinctive character of that sign — Criteria)

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Case C-360/19: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven — Netherlands) — Crown Van Gelder BV v Autoriteit Consument en Markt (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Internal market for electricity — Directive 2009/72/EC — Article 37 — Duties and powers of the regulatory authority — Out-of-court dispute settlement — Concept of ‘party having a complaint’ — Complaint submitted by a final customer against the operator of a transmission system to which that customer’s installation is not directly connected — Failure on the grid — No contractual relationship between that customer and the operator of that grid — Admissibility of the complaint)

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Case C-330/19: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden — Netherlands) — Staatssecretaris van Financiën v Exter BV (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Customs union — Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 — Community Customs Code — Article 121(1) — Inward processing procedure — Release for free circulation — Incurrence of a customs debt — Determination of the debt — Concept of ‘taxation elements’ — Taking account of a preferential tariff measure)

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