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Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#Região Autónoma da Madeira v European Commission.#Appeal – State aid – Madeira Free Zone (Portugal) – Granting of tax advantages to undertakings – Aid scheme implemented by the Portuguese Republic – Decisions C(2007) 3037 final and C(2013) 4043 final – Decision taken by the European Commission pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 108(2) TFEU – Implementation of existing aid in breach of a condition ensuring compatibility of the aid with the internal market.#Case C-547/23 P.

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Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#NW and YS v Qatar Airways.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Air transport – Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 – Article 3(3) – Travel free of charge or at a reduced fare not available directly or indirectly to the public – Passenger who has paid only charges and air transport taxes – Reservation in the context of a promotional campaign – Article 8(1)(c) – Right to re-routing at a later date – No requirement of a temporal link between the cancelled flight and the re-routing flight desired by the passenger.#Case C-516/23.

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Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#NW and YS v Qatar Airways.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Air transport – Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 – Article 3(3) – Travel free of charge or at a reduced fare not available directly or indirectly to the public – Passenger who has paid only charges and air transport taxes – Reservation in the context of a promotional campaign – Article 8(1)(c) – Right to re-routing at a later date – No requirement of a temporal link between the cancelled flight and the re-routing flight desired by the passenger.#Case C-516/23.

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Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#DYKA Plastics NV v Fluvius System Operator CV.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Award of public works contracts – Directive 2014/24/EU – Article 42 – Technical specifications – Formulation – Whether the list at Article 42(3) is exhaustive in nature – Invitation to tender requiring drainage work to be carried out using pipes made of vitrified clay and made of concrete – Plastic pipes excluded – Article 42(4) – Reference to a type or to a specific production – Situations in which a reference must be accompanied by the words “or equivalent”.#Case C-424/23.

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Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#DYKA Plastics NV v Fluvius System Operator CV.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the ondernemingsrechtbank Gent, afdeling Gent.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Award of public works contracts – Directive 2014/24/EU – Article 42 – Technical specifications – Formulation – Whether the list at Article 42(3) is exhaustive in nature – Invitation to tender requiring drainage work to be carried out using pipes made of vitrified clay and made of concrete – Plastic pipes excluded – Article 42(4) – Reference to a type or to a specific production – Situations in which a reference must be accompanied by the words “or equivalent”.#Case C-424/23.

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Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#Criminal proceedings against VB.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Judicial cooperation in criminal matters – Directive (EU) 2016/343 – Right to be present at the trial – Article 8(2) – Trial resulting in a decision imposing a conviction in absentia or a decision of acquittal in absentia – Conditions – Article 8(4) – Obligation to inform the person tried in absentia of the legal remedies available – Article 9 – Right to a new trial or to another legal remedy which allows a fresh determination of the merits of the case and which may lead to the original decision being reversed – Article 10(1) – Right to an effective remedy – National legislation making the recognition of the right to a new trial subject to the submission of a request to reopen criminal proceedings to a judicial authority before which the person tried in absentia must appear.#Case C-400/23.

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Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#Criminal proceedings against VB.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski gradski sad.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Judicial cooperation in criminal matters – Directive (EU) 2016/343 – Right to be present at the trial – Article 8(2) – Trial resulting in a decision imposing a conviction in absentia or a decision of acquittal in absentia – Conditions – Article 8(4) – Obligation to inform the person tried in absentia of the legal remedies available – Article 9 – Right to a new trial or to another legal remedy which allows a fresh determination of the merits of the case and which may lead to the original decision being reversed – Article 10(1) – Right to an effective remedy – National legislation making the recognition of the right to a new trial subject to the submission of a request to reopen criminal proceedings to a judicial authority before which the person tried in absentia must appear.#Case C-400/23.

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Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#SIA ,,BALTIC CONTAINER TERMINAL” v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Customs union – Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 – Union Customs Code – Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 – Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 – Free zones – Change of customs status of non-Union goods to Union goods – Records of the holder of an authorisation to carry on activities in a free zone – Legitimate expectations – Res judicata.#Case C-376/23.

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Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#‘BALTIC CONTAINER TERMINAL’ SIA v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākā tiesa (Senāts).#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Customs Union – Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 – Union Customs Code – Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 – Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 – Free zones – Change of customs status of non-Union goods to Union goods – Records of the holder of an authorisation to carry on activities in a free zone – Legitimate expectations – Res judicata.#Case C-376/23.

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Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#Banco Santander SA, venant aux droits de Banco Banif SA v Asociación de Consumidores y Usuarios de Servicios Generales-Auge, en représentation de ses associés : Andrea y Alberto.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Markets in financial instruments – Directive 2004/39/EC – Article 52(2) – Action brought in the interests of consumers – Consumer organisations having a legitimate interest in protecting consumers – Standing to bring legal proceedings to defend the individual interests of their members – Loss of standing in the case of investments in high-value financial products – Exemption from court fees and from the obligation to pay the costs incurred by the opposing party – Procedural autonomy – Principle of effectiveness.#Case C-346/23.

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Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#Banco Santander SA v Asociación de Consumidores y Usuarios de Servicios Generales-Auge.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Markets in financial instruments – Directive 2004/39/EC – Article 52(2) – Action brought in the interests of consumers – Consumer organisations having a legitimate interest in protecting consumers – Standing to bring legal proceedings to defend the individual interests of their members – Loss of standing in the case of investments in high-value financial products – Exemption from court fees and from the obligation to pay the costs incurred by the opposing party – Procedural autonomy – Principle of effectiveness.#Case C-346/23.

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Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#E. P. v Ministarstvo financija Republike Hrvatske, Samostalni sektor za drugostupanjski upravni postupak.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Citizenship of the Union – Article 21(1) TFEU – Right to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States – Tax legislation – Income tax – Calculation of the amount of the basic personal allowance for a dependent child who has received mobility support for educational purposes in the context of the Erasmus+ programme – Regulation (EU) No 1288/2013 – Taxation of grants to support the mobility of individuals covered by that regulation – Restriction on freedom of movement – Proportionality.#Case C-277/23.

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Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 January 2025.#E.P. v Ministarstvo financija Republike Hrvatske, Samostalni sektor za drugostupanjski upravni postupak.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Ustavni sud Republike Hrvatske.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Citizenship of the Union – Article 21(1) TFEU – Right to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States – Tax legislation – Income tax – Calculation of the amount of the basic personal allowance for a dependent child who has received mobility support for educational purposes in the context of the Erasmus+ programme – Regulation (EU) No 1288/2013 – Taxation of grants to support the mobility of individuals covered by that regulation – Restriction on freedom of movement – Proportionality.#Case C-277/23.

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Opinion of Advocate General Ćapeta delivered on 16 January 2025.#Royal Football Club Seraing v Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA) and Others.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 19(1) TEU – Obligation of Member States to provide remedies sufficient to ensure effective legal protection in the fields covered by Union law – Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Right to an effective remedy – Possibility of recourse to arbitration – Arbitration between individuals – Imposed arbitration – Decision of a body of an international sports federation imposing a sanction – Award by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld by a decision of a court of a third State – Legal remedy against the arbitral award – National legislation conferring on that arbitral award the authority of res judicata between the parties and probative value vis-à-vis third parties – Powers and obligations of the national courts before which that arbitral award is relied on – Effective review of the consistency of such an arbitral award with the principles and provisions falling under EU public policy.#Case C-600/23.

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Opinion of Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona delivered on 16 January 2025.#Polskie sieci elektroenergetyczne S.A. and Others v European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators.#Appeal – Internal market for electricity – Regulation (EU) 2019/942 – Board of Appeal of the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) – Regulation (EU) 2017/2195 – Articles 20, 21 and 37 – Balancing electricity – Transmission system operators – Establishment of European platforms for the exchange of balancing energy – European platform for the exchange of balancing energy from frequency restoration reserves with manual activation (mFRR platform) – European platform for the exchange of balancing energy from frequency restoration reserves with automatic activation (aFRR platform) – Development and approval of the implementation frameworks for those platforms – Functions required to operate those platforms – Cross-zonal capacity for the exchange of balancing energy – ACER decision rejecting the common proposal of the system operators.#Joined Cases C-281/23 P and C-282/23 P.

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CaseC-644/23, Stangalov: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 January 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski gradski sad – Bulgaria) – Criminal proceedings against IR (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Judicial cooperation in criminal matters – Directive (EU) 2016/343 – Article 8 – Right to be present at the trial – Information regarding the holding of the trial and the consequences of non-appearance – Inability to locate the accused person notwithstanding the reasonable efforts of the competent authorities – Possibility of a trial and a decision in absentia – Article 9 – Right to a new trial or to another legal remedy which allows a fresh determination of the merits of the case – No such right where the person concerned absconds)

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Case C-642/23, Flightright (Loyalty account): Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 16 January 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Düsseldorf – Germany) – Flightright GmbH v Etihad Airways P.J.S.C. (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Air transport – Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 – Article 8(1)(a) – Right to reimbursement of the cost of the airline ticket in the event of cancellation of a flight – Choice between reimbursement in money or in travel vouchers – Article 7(3) – Concept of the signed agreement of the passenger – Loyalty account set up by the passenger on the air carrier’s website)

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Case C-588/23, Scai: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 16 January 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale della Campania – Italy) – Scai Srl v Regione Campania (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Recovery of unlawful and incompatible aid – Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 – Article 16 – Beneficiary of individual aid identified in the European Commission recovery decision – Implementation of the recovery decision – Transfer of the aid to another undertaking after the recovery decision – Economic continuity – Assessment – Competent authority – Extension of the recovery obligation to the actual beneficiary – Audi alteram partem rule – Articles 41 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union)

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Case C-547/23 P: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 16 January 2025 – Região Autónoma da Madeira v European Commission (Appeal – State aid – Madeira Free Zone (Portugal) – Granting of tax advantages to undertakings – Aid scheme implemented by the Portuguese Republic – Decisions C(2007) 3037 final and C(2013) 4043 final – Decision taken by the European Commission pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 108(2) TFEU – Implementation of existing aid in breach of a condition ensuring compatibility of the aid with the internal market)

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Case C-516/23, Qatar Airways: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 16 January 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main – Germany) – NW, YS v Qatar Airways (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Air transport – Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 – Article 3(3) – Travel free of charge or at a reduced fare not available directly or indirectly to the public – Passenger who has paid only charges and air transport taxes – Reservation in the context of a promotional campaign – Article 8(1)(c) – Right to re-routing at a later date – No requirement of a temporal link between the cancelled flight and the re-routing flight desired by the passenger)

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