25561Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 13 January 2022.#Skarb Państwa - Starosta Nyski v New Media Development & Hotel Services Sp. z o.o.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Opolu.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 2011/7/EU – Combating late payments in commercial transactions – Scope – Concept of ‘commercial transactions’ – Public authority acting in its capacity as creditor of an undertaking – Not included – Grant by a public authority of a usufruct of immovable property against payment of an annual fee.#Case C-327/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25562Arrêt de la Cour (troisième chambre) du 13 janvier 2022.#« MONO » SIA contre Valsts ieņēmumu dienests.#Renvoi préjudiciel – Droits d’accise – Directive 2008/118/CE – Exonération de l’accise harmonisée – Produits destinés à être utilisés dans le cadre de relations diplomatiques ou consulaires – Conditions d’application de l’exonération fixées par l’État membre d’accueil – Paiement par des moyens autres que les espèces.#Affaire C-326/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25563Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 13 January 2022.#SIA 'MONO' v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Administratīvā apgabaltiesa.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Excise duty – Directive 2008/118/EC – Exemption from the harmonised excise duty – Goods intended to be used in the context of diplomatic and consular relations – Conditions for the exemption to apply laid down by the host Member State – Payment by non-cash means.#Case C-326/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25564Arrêt de la Cour (première chambre) du 13 janvier 2022.#Zipvit Ltd contre The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs.#Renvoi préjudiciel – Système commun de taxe sur la valeur ajoutée (TVA) – Directive 2006/112/CE – Article 168 – Droit à déduction – Prestation de services postaux erronément exonérée – TVA réputée intégrée dans le prix commercial de la prestation aux fins de l’exercice du droit à déduction – Exclusion – Notion de TVA “due ou acquittée”.#Affaire C-156/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25565Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 13 January 2022.#Zipvit Ltd v The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Common system of value added tax (VAT) – Directive 2006/112/EC – Article 168 – Right of deduction – Supply of postal services mistakenly exempted – VAT deemed to be included in the commercial price of the supply for the purpose of exercising the right of deduction – Not included – Concept of VAT ‘due or paid’.#Case C-156/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25566Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 13 January 2022.#Regione Puglia v Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare and Others.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Energy – Directive 94/22/EC – Conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons – Authorisation for the prospection of hydrocarbons in a specific geographical area for a specified period – Contiguous areas – Grant of several authorisations to the same operator – Directive 2011/92/EU – Article 4(2) and (3) – Environmental impact assessment.#Case C-110/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25567Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 13 January 2022.#Regione Puglia v Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare and Others.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Energy – Directive 94/22/EC – Conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons – Authorisation for the prospection of hydrocarbons in a specific geographical area for a specified period – Contiguous areas – Grant of several authorisations to the same operator – Directive 2011/92/EU – Article 4(2) and (3) – Environmental impact assessment.#Case C-110/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25568Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 13 January 2022.#Minister Sprawiedliwości v Prokurator Krajowy – Pierwszy Zastępca Prokuratora Generalnego and Rzecznik Dyscyplinarny Izby Adwokackiej w Warszawie.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Admissibility – Article 267 TFEU – Definition of ‘court or tribunal of a Member State’ – Bar Association Disciplinary Court – Disciplinary investigation initiated against a lawyer – Decision of the Disciplinary Agent finding that there was no disciplinary offence and terminating the investigation – Appeal by the Minister for Justice to the Bar Association Disciplinary Court – Directive 2006/123/EC – Services in the internal market – Article 4, point (6), and Article 10(6) – Authorisation scheme – Withdrawal of authorisation – Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Not applicable.#Case C-55/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25569Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 13 January 2022.#Minister Sprawiedliwości v Prokurator Krajowy – Pierwszy Zastępca Prokuratora Generalnego and Rzecznik Dyscyplinarny Izby Adwokackiej w Warszawie.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Dyscyplinarny Izby Adwokackiej w Warszawie.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Admissibility – Article 267 TFEU – Definition of ‘court or tribunal of a Member State’ – Bar Association Disciplinary Court – Disciplinary investigation initiated against a lawyer – Decision of the Disciplinary Agent finding that there was no disciplinary offence and terminating the investigation – Appeal by the Minister for Justice to the Bar Association Disciplinary Court – Directive 2006/123/EC – Services in the internal market – Article 4, point (6), and Article 10(6) – Authorisation scheme – Withdrawal of authorisation – Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Not applicable.#Case C-55/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25570Opinion of Advocate General Richard de la Tour delivered on 13 January 2022.#Ligebehandlingsnævnet acting on behalf of A v HK/Danmark and HK/Privat.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Østre Landsret.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Equal treatment in employment and occupation – Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age – Directive 2000/78/EC – Article 3(1)(a) and (d) – Scope – Post of elected sector convenor of an organisation of workers – Statutes of that organisation under which only members under the age of 60 or 61 on the date of the election are eligible to stand as sector convenor.#Case C-587/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25571Opinion of Advocate General Richard de la Tour delivered on 13 January 2022.#Criminal procedure against IR.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Spetsializiran nakazatelen sad.#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 – Inability to locate the accused person notwithstanding the reasonable efforts of the competent authorities – Possibility of a trial and a conviction 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.#Case C-569/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25572Opinion of Advocate General Rantos delivered on 13 January 2022.#Association France Nature Environnement v Premier ministre and Ministre de la Transition écologique et solidaire.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Environment – Directive 2000/60/EC – Framework for European Union action in the field of water policy – Article 4(1)(a) – Environmental objectives relating to surface water – Obligation of the Member States not to authorise a programme or project that may cause a deterioration of the status of a body of surface water – Concept of ‘deterioration’ of the status of a body of surface water – Article 4(6) and (7) – Derogations from the prohibition of deterioration – Conditions – Programme or project having temporary, short-term impacts on the status of a body of surface water which are without lasting consequences.#Case C-525/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25573Opinion of Advocate General Pikamäe delivered on 13 January 2022.#DB and LY v Nachalnik na Rayonno upravlenie Silistra pri Oblastna direktsia na Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen sad – Silistra.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Judicial cooperation in criminal matters – Second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) – Decision 2007/533/JHA – Articles 38 and 39 – Alert on an object sought – Objectives of the alert – Seizure or use as evidence in criminal proceedings – Execution – Measures to be taken and action based on an alert – Surrender of the object seized to the Member State issuing the alert – National legislation not permitting a refusal to execute the alert.#Case C-520/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25574Opinion of Advocate General Pitruzzella delivered on 13 January 2022.#HEITEC AG v HEITECH Promotion GmbH and RW.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Trade marks – Directive 2008/95/EC – Article 9 – Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 – Articles 54, 110 and 111 – Limitation in consequence of acquiescence – Concept of ‘acquiescence’ – Interruption of the period of limitation in consequence of acquiescence – Sending of a warning letter – Date of interruption of the period of limitation in the event of a court action being initiated – Effects of limitation – Application for damages, the provision of information and destruction of goods.#Case C-466/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25575Opinion of Advocate General Ćapeta delivered on 13 January 2022.#Gräfendorfer Geflügel- und Tiefkühlfeinkost Produktions GmbH and Others v Hauptzollamt Hamburg and Hauptzollamt Kiel.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Hamburg.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Customs union – Rights to the repayment or to the payment of sums of money levied or refused by a Member State in breach of EU law – Anti-dumping duties, import duties, export refunds and financial penalties – Concept of ‘breach of EU law’ – Misinterpretation or misapplication of EU law – Finding of a breach of EU law by a Court of the European Union or by a national court – Right to the payment of interest – Period covered by that payment of interest.#Joined Cases C-415/20, C-419/20 and C-427/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25576Opinion of Advocate General Rantos delivered on 13 January 2022.#Skeyes v Ryanair DAC, formerly Ryanair Ltd.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de l’Entreprise du Hainaut, division de Charleroi.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Air transport – Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 – Regulation (EC) No 550/2004 – Air traffic services provider – Decision to close airspace – Exercise of the powers of a public authority – Airspace user – Airlines – Right of appeal against a decision to close airspace – Article 58 TFEU – Freedom to provide services in the field of transport – Articles 16 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Freedom to conduct a business – Right to an effective remedy.#Case C-353/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25577Opinion of Advocate General Pikamäe delivered on 13 January 2022.#European Commission v Hansol Paper Co. Ltd.#Appeal – Dumping – Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/763 – Imports of certain lightweight thermal paper originating in the Republic of Korea – Definitive anti-dumping duty – Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 – Articles 6, 16 and 18 – Proof – Information provided other than by responding to an anti-dumping questionnaire – Weighting of sales affecting the dumping calculation – Article 2(1) and (3) – Calculation of the normal value – Hierarchy between the calculation methods – Article 3(2) and (3) – Injury – Calculation of the undercutting margin – Cross-appeal – Article 2(11) – Full degree of dumping – Article 18 – Exemption from responding to an anti-dumping questionnaire – Lack of non-cooperation.#Case C-260/20 P.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25578Opinion of Advocate General Szpunar delivered on 13 January 2022.#Impexeco NV and PI Pharma NV v Novartis AG and Novartis Pharma NV.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van beroep te Brussel.#References for a preliminary ruling – Articles 34 and 36 TFEU – Free movement of goods – Intellectual property – Trade marks – Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 – Article 9(2) – Article 13 – Directive 2008/95 – Article 5(1) – Article 7 – Rights conferred by a trade mark – Exhaustion of the rights conferred by a trade mark – Parallel imports of medicinal products – Reference medicinal product and generic medicinal product – Economically linked undertakings – Repackaging of the generic medicinal product – New outer packaging – Affixing the trade mark of the reference medicinal product – Opposition by the proprietor of the trade mark – Artificial partitioning of the markets between the Member States.#Joined Cases C-253/20 and C-254/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022
25580Opinion of Advocate General Szpunar delivered on 13 January 2022.#Novartis Pharma GmbH v Abacus Medicine A/S.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Hamburg.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Intellectual property – EU trade mark – Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 – Article 9(2) – Rights conferred by a mark – Article 15 – Exhaustion of the rights conferred by a trade mark – Parallel import of medicinal products – Repackaging of the product bearing the mark – New outer packaging – Opposition by the proprietor of the mark – Artificial partitioning of the markets between Member States – Medicinal products for human use – Directive 2001/83/EC – Article 47a – Safety features – Replacement – Equivalent features – Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161 – Article 3(2) – Anti-tampering device – Unique identifier.#Case C-147/20.#Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH v kohlpharma GmbH.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Hamburg.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Intellectual property – Trade marks – Directive (EU) 2015/2436 – Approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks – Article 10(2) – Rights conferred by a trade mark – Article 15 – Exhaustion of the rights conferred by a trade mark – Parallel import of medicinal products – Repackaging of the product bearing the mark – New outer packaging – Opposition by the proprietor of the mark – Artificial partitioning of the markets between Member States – Medicinal products for human use – Directive 2001/83/EC – Article 47a – Safety features – Replacement – Equivalent features – Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161 – Article 3(2) – Anti-tampering device – Unique identifier.#Case C-204/20.#Merck Sharp & Dohme BV and Others v Abacus Medicine A/S and Others.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sø- og Handelsretten.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Articles 34 and 36 TFEU – Free movement of goods – Intellectual property – Trade marks – Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 – EU trade mark – Article 9(2) – Article 15 – Directive (EU) 2015/2436 – Approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks – Article 10(2) – Article 15 – Rights conferred by a trade mark – Exhaustion of the rights conferred by a trade mark – Parallel import of medicinal products – Repackaging of the product bearing the mark – New outer packaging – Replacement of the trade mark appearing on the original outer packaging by another product name – Reaffixing of the trade mark of the proprietor specific to the product, to the exclusion of the other distinctive marks or signs appearing on that original outer packaging – Opposition by the proprietor of the mark – Artificial partitioning of the markets between Member States – Medicinal products for human use – Directive 2001/83/EC – Article 47a – Safety features – Replacement – Equivalent features – Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161 – Article 3(2) – Anti-tampering device.#Case C-224/20.cjeu_case · January 13, 2022