9861Joined Cases C-608/22 and C-609/22, Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl and Others (Afghan women): Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 4 October 2024 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof – Austria) – AH (C-608/22), FN (C-609/22) v Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl (References for a preliminary ruling – Area of freedom, security and justice – Common asylum policy – Directive 2011/95/EU – Conditions that must be fulfilled by third-country nationals in order to be granted refugee status – Article 2(d) and (e) – Concept of act of persecution – Level of seriousness required – Article 9 – Sufficiently severe accumulation of measures that discriminate against women – Article 9(1)(b) – Types of acts of persecution – Article 9(2) – Assessment of applications for international protection – Article 4(3) – Obligation to carry out an individual assessment – Scope)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9862Case C-585/22, Staatssecretaris van Financiën (Interest in respect of an intra-group loan): Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 October 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden – Netherlands) – X BV v Staatssecretaris van Finaciën (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Freedom of establishment – Article 49 TFEU – Corporation tax – Intra-group cross-border loan for the purposes of financing the acquisition or the extension of an interest in a company not related to the group concerned that becomes, as a result of that transaction, related to that group – Deduction of interest paid on that loan – Loan contracted on an arm’s length basis – Concept of wholly artificial arrangement – Principle of proportionality)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9863Case C-581/22 P: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 October 2024 – thyssenkrupp AG v European Commission (Appeal – Competition – Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 – Concentration between undertakings – Decision declaring the concentration incompatible with the internal market and the functioning of the EEA Agreement – Determination of the relevant markets – Significant impediment to effective competition – Creation or strengthening of a dominant position – Non-coordinated effects – Standard of proof – Concepts of important competitive force and close competitors – Closeness of competition between the merging parties – Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index – Requests for information – Distortion)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9864Case C-546/22, Schauinsland-Reisen: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 4 October 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof – Austria) – GF v Schauinsland-Reisen GmbH (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Package travel and linked travel arrangements – Directive (EU) 2015/2302 – Article 12(3) – Termination of a package travel contract by the organiser – Unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances – Performance of the trip prevented as a result of such circumstances – Official recommendation advising against travel to the destination country due to the spread of COVID-19)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9865Case C-541/22 P: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 October 2024 – Araceli García Fernández and Others v European Commission and Single Resolution Board (SRB) (Appeal – Economic and monetary policy – Banking union – Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 – Single Resolution Mechanism for credit institutions and certain investment firms – Resolution procedure applicable where an entity is failing or is likely to fail – Adoption of a resolution scheme in respect of Banco Popular Español SA – Article 14 – Resolution objectives – Article 18(1) – Conditions for the adoption of a resolution scheme – Obligations of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) and of the European Commission – Article 20 – Valuations for the purposes of resolution – Requirements – Articles 88 to 91 – Obligation of confidentiality – Right of access to the file – Statements to the press)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9866Case C-535/22 P: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 October 2024 – Aeris Invest Sàrl v European Commission, Single Resolution Board (SRB) (Appeal – Economic and monetary policy – Banking Union – Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 – Single Resolution Mechanism for credit institutions and certain investment firms – Resolution procedure applicable where an entity is failing or is likely to fail – Adoption of a resolution scheme in respect of Banco Popular Español SA – Article 18(1) – Conditions for the adoption of a resolution scheme – Obligations of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) – Duty of care – Obligation to state reasons – Article 88 – Obligation of confidentiality – Article 14 – Resolution objectives – Sale of business of the entity concerned – Conditions of sale under which an offer may be accepted – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Article 17 – Shareholders’ right to property – Validity of Regulation (EU) No 806/2014)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9867Case C-412/22, Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira (Effects of the repeal of an anti-dumping duty): Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 4 October 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Supremo Tribunal Administrativo – Portugal) – Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira v NT (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Dumping – Importation of certain iron or steel fasteners originating in the People’s Republic of China – Imports of certain iron or steel fasteners consigned from Malaysia – Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/278 – Repeal of the anti-dumping duties imposed by Regulation (EC) No 91/2009 – Entry into effect of that repeal – Imports prior to that entry into effect – Post-clearance recovery of anti-dumping duties)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9868Case C-406/22, Ministerstvo vnitra České republiky, Odbor azylové a migrační politiky: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 4 October 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Krajský soud v Brně – Czech Republic) – CV v Ministerstvo vnitra České republiky, Odbor azylové a migrační politiky (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Asylum policy – International protection – Directive 2013/32/EU – Common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection – Articles 36 and 37 – Concept of safe country of origin – Designation – Annex I – Criteria – Article 46 – Right to an effective remedy – Examination by the court of the designation of a third country as a safe country of origin)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9869Case C-399/22, Confédération paysanne (Melons and tomatoes from Western Sahara): Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 4 October 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État – France) – Confédération paysanne v Ministre de l’Agriculture et de la Souveraineté alimentaire and Ministre de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Common commercial policy – International agreements – Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Morocco, of the other part – Amendment of Protocols 1 and 4 to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement – Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 – Article 9 – Article 26(2) – Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 – Article 3(1) and (2) – Article 5(1) and (2) – Article 8 – Article 15(1) and (4) – Annex I – Annex IV – Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 – Article 76 – Provision of food information to consumers – Mandatory indication of the country of origin or place of provenance of foods – Fruit and vegetables harvested in Western Sahara – Request for a Member State unilaterally to ban imports of those goods in its territory – Mandatory indication of Western Sahara as the place of provenance of tomatoes and melons harvested in that territory)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9870Case C-237/22 P: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 4 October 2024 – Mylan IRE Healthcare Ltd v European Commission, UAB VVB (Appeal – Regulation (EC) No 141/2000 – Orphan medicinal products – Articles 3 and 8 – Concept of significant benefit – Concept of clinical superiority – Regulation (EC) No 847/2000 – Article 3 – Marketing authorisation for the medicinal product for human use Tobramycin VVB – Period of market exclusivity of Tobi Podhaler, containing the active substance tobramycin – Derogation from that market exclusivity)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9871Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 4 October 2024.#European Commission and Council of the European Union v Front populaire pour la libération de la Saguia el-Hamra et du Rio de oro (Front Polisario).#Appeals – External action – International agreements – Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Morocco, of the other part – Agreement on the amendment of Protocols 1 and 4 to that agreement – Concluding act – Allegations of infringements of international law resulting from the applicability of that second agreement to the territory of Western Sahara – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Capacity to be a party to legal proceedings – Locus standi – Condition that an applicant must, in certain cases, be directly and individually concerned by the measure in question – Principle of the relative effect of treaties – Principle of self-determination – Non-self-governing territories – Article 73 of the Charter of the United Nations – Discretion of the Council of the European Union – Customary international law – General principles of EU law – Consent of the people of a non-self-governing territory which holds a right to self-determination as a third party to an international agreement.#Joined Cases C-779/21 P and C-799/21 P.cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9872Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 4 October 2024.#European Commission and Council of the European Union v Front populaire pour la libération de la Saguia el-Hamra et du Rio de oro (Front Polisario).#Appeals – External action – International agreements – Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Morocco, of the other part – Agreement on the amendment of Protocols 1 and 4 to that agreement – Concluding act – Allegations of infringements of international law resulting from the applicability of that second agreement to the territory of Western Sahara – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Capacity to be a party to legal proceedings – Locus standi – Condition that an applicant must, in certain cases, be directly and individually concerned by the measure in question – Principle of the relative effect of treaties – Principle of self-determination – Non-self-governing territories – Article 73 of the Charter of the United Nations – Discretion of the Council of the European Union – Customary international law – General principles of EU law – Consent of the people of a non-self-governing territory which holds a right to self-determination as a third party to an international agreement.#Joined Cases C-779/21 P and C-799/21 P.cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9873Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 4 October 2024.#European Commission and Council of the European Union v Front populaire pour la libération de la Saguia el-Hamra et du Rio de oro (Front Polisario).#Appeals – External action – International agreements – Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco – Decision on the conclusion of that agreement and the implementation protocol thereto – Allegations of infringements of international law resulting from the applicability of that agreement to the waters adjacent to Western Sahara – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Capacity to be a party to legal proceedings – Locus standi – Condition that an applicant must, in certain cases, be directly and individually concerned by the measure in question – Principle of the relative effect of treaties – Principle of self-determination – Non-self-governing territories – Article 73 of the Charter of the United Nations – Discretion of the Council of the European Union – Customary international law – General principles of EU law – Consent of the people of a non-self-governing territory which holds a right to self-determination as a third party to an international agreement.#Joined Cases C-778/21 P and C-798/21 P.cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9874Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 4 October 2024.#European Commission and Council of the European Union v Front populaire pour la libération de la Saguia el-Hamra et du Rio de oro (Front Polisario).#[As rectified by order of 15 January 2025] Appeal – External action – International agreements – Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco – Decision on the conclusion of that agreement and the implementation protocol thereto – Allegations of infringements of international law resulting from the applicability of that agreement to the waters adjacent to Western Sahara – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Capacity to be a party to legal proceedings – Locus standi – Condition that an applicant must, in certain cases, be directly and individually concerned by the measure in question – Principle of the relative effect of treaties – Principle of self-determination – Non-self-governing territories – Article 73 of the Charter of the United Nations – Discretion of the Council of the European Union – Customary international law – General principles of EU law – Consent of the people of a non-self-governing territory which holds a right to self-determination as a third party to an international agreement.#Joined Cases C-778/21 P and C-798/21 P.cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9875Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 4 October 2024.#C.G. v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Landeck.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences – Directive (EU) 2016/680 – Article 3(2) – Concept of ‘processing’ – Article 4 – Principles relating to processing of personal data – Article 4(1)(c) – Principle of ‘data minimisation’ – Articles 7, 8 and 47 and Article 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Requirement that a limitation on the exercise of a fundamental right must be ‘provided for by law’ – Proportionality – Assessment of proportionality in the light of all the relevant factors – Prior review by a court or independent administrative authority – Article 13 – Information to be made available or given to the data subject – Limits – Article 54 – Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor – Police investigation in relation to narcotics trafficking – Attempt, by the police, to unlock a mobile telephone in order to gain access, for the purposes of that investigation, to the personal data stored in that telephone.#Case C-548/21.cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9876Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 4 October 2024.#C.G. v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Landeck.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Tirol.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences – Directive (EU) 2016/680 – Article 3(2) – Concept of ‘processing’ – Article 4 – Principles relating to processing of personal data – Article 4(1)(c) – Principle of ‘data minimisation’ – Articles 7, 8, 47 and Article 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Requirement that a limitation on the exercise of a fundamental right must be ‘provided for by law’ – Proportionality – Assessment of proportionality in the light of all the relevant factors – Prior review by a court or independent administrative authority – Article 13 – Information to be made available or given to the data subject – Limits – Article 54 – Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor – Police investigation in relation to narcotics trafficking – Attempt, by the police, to unlock a mobile telephone in order to gain access, for the purposes of that investigation, to the personal data stored in that telephone.#Case C-548/21.cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9877Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 4 October 2024.#Maximilian Schrems v Meta Platforms Ireland Limited.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Online social networks – General terms of use relating to contracts concluded between a digital platform and a user – Personalised advertising – Article 5(1)(b) – Principle of purpose limitation – Article 5(1)(c) – Principle of data minimisation – Article 9(1) and (2) – Processing of special categories of personal data – Data concerning sexual orientation – Data which are made public by the data subject.#Case C-446/21.cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9878Case C-361/21, PET-PROM: Order of the President of the Court of 4 October 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Visoki trgovački sud Republike Hrvatske – Croatia) – IC v PET-PROM d.o.o.cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9879Joined Cases C-779/21 P and C-799/21 P: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 4 October 2024 – European Commission (C-779/21 P) and Council of the European Union (C-799/21 P) v Front populaire pour la libération de la Saguia-el-Hamra et du Rio de oro (Front Polisario) and Others (Appeals – External action – International agreements – Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Morocco, of the other part – Agreement on the amendment of Protocols 1 and 4 to that agreement – Concluding act – Allegations of infringements of international law resulting from the applicability of that second agreement to the territory of Western Sahara – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Capacity to be a party to legal proceedings – Locus standi – Condition that an applicant must, in certain cases, be directly and individually concerned by the measure in question – Principle of the relative effect of treaties – Principle of self-determination – Non-self-governing territories – Article 73 of the Charter of the United Nations – Discretion of the Council of the European Union – Customary international law – General principles of EU law – Consent of the people of a non-self-governing territory which holds a right to self-determination as a third party to an international agreement)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024
9880Joined Cases C-778/21 P and C-798/21 P: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 4 October 2024 – European Commission (C-778/21 P) and Council of the European Union (C-798/21 P) v Front populaire pour la libération de la Saguia-el-Hamra et du Rio de oro (Front Polisario) and Others (Appeal – External action – International agreements – Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco – Decision on the conclusion of that agreement and the implementation protocol thereto – Allegations of infringements of international law resulting from the applicability of that agreement to the waters adjacent to Western Sahara – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Capacity to be a party to legal proceedings – Locus standi – Condition that an applicant must, in certain cases, be directly and individually concerned by the measure in question – Principle of the relative effect of treaties – Principle of self-determination – Non-self-governing territories – Article 73 of the Charter of the United Nations – Discretion of the Council of the European Union – Customary international law – General principles of EU law – Consent of the people of a non-self-governing territory which holds a right to self-determination as a third party to an international agreement)cjeu_case · 4 octobre 2024