12781Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 21 March 2024.#'Gjensidige' ADB.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Judicial cooperation in civil matters – Jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters – Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 – Article 45 – Refusal to recognise a judgment – Article 71 – Relationship between that regulation and conventions governing particular matters – Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) – Article 31(3) – Lis pendens – Agreement conferring jurisdiction – Concept of ‘public policy’.#Case C-90/22.cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12782Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 21 March 2024.#RL v Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Regulation (EU) 2019/1157 – Strengthening the security of identity cards of EU citizens – Validity – Legal basis – Article 21(2) TFEU – Article 77(3) TFEU – Regulation (EU) 2019/1157 – Article 3(5) – Obligation for Member States to include two fingerprints in interoperable digital formats in the storage medium of identity cards – Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Respect for private and family life – Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 35 – Obligation to carry out a data protection impact assessment – Maintaining the effects for a certain time of a regulation which has been declared invalid.#Case C-61/22.cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12783Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 21 March 2024.#RL v Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Wiesbaden.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Regulation (EU) 2019/1157 – Strengthening the security of identity cards of EU citizens – Validity – Legal basis – Article 21(2) TFEU – Article 77(3) TFEU – Regulation (EU) 2019/1157 – Article 3(5) – Obligation for Member States to include two fingerprints in interoperable digital formats in the storage medium of identity cards – Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Respect for private and family life – Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 35 – Obligation to carry out a data protection impact assessment – Maintaining the effects for a certain time of a regulation which has been declared invalid.#Case C-61/22.cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12784Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 March 2024.#Liberi editori e autori (LEA) v Jamendo SA.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 2014/26/EU – Collective management of copyright and related rights – Collective management organisations – Independent management entities – Access to the activity of managing copyright and related rights – Directive 2000/31/EC – Material scope – Article 3(3) – Directive 2006/123/EC – Material scope – Article 17(11) – Article 56 TFEU.#Case C-10/22.cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12785Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 March 2024.#Liberi editori e autori (LEA) v Jamendo SA.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale ordinario di Roma.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 2014/26/EU – Collective management of copyright and related rights – Collective management organisations – Independent management entities – Access to the activity of managing copyright and related rights – Directive 2000/31/EC – Material scope – Article 3(3) – Directive 2006/123/EC – Material scope – Article 17(11) – Article 56 TFEU.#Case C-10/22.cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12786Opinion of Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona delivered on 21 March 2024.#Biohemp Concept SRL v Direcţia pentru Agricultură Judeţeană Alba.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Alba Iulia.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Common agricultural policy – Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 – Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 – Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 – Cultivation of hemp (Cannabis sativa) – Refusal to issue a permit for the cultivation of hemp using hydroponic systems in an indoor environment.#Case C-793/22.cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12788Opinion of Advocate General Emiliou delivered on 21 March 2024.#Illumina Inc. and Grail LLC v European Commission.#Appeal – Competition – Concentrations – Pharmaceutical industry market – Genetic sequencing systems – Acquisition by Illumina Inc. of sole control over Grail LLC – Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 – Article 22 – Referral request from a national competition authority not having competence under national law to examine the concentration – Decision of the European Commission to examine that concentration – Commission decisions accepting requests from other national competition authorities to join the referral request – Competence of the Commission – Legal certainty.#Joined Cases C-611/22 P and C-625/22 P.cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12789Opinion of Advocate General Richard de la Tour delivered on 21 March 2024.#Novo Banco SA - Sucursal en España and Others v C.F.O. and Others.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Reorganisation and winding up of credit institutions – Directive 2001/24/EC – Articles 3 and 6 – Reorganisation measure taken in respect of a credit institution – Transfer of the obligations and responsibilities of that credit institution to a ‘bridge bank’ prior to the bringing of a legal action seeking payment of a claim held against that credit institution – Transfer back to the same credit institution of certain of those obligations and responsibilities – Law of the Member State where the proceedings concerned were brought (lex concursus) – Effects of a reorganisation measure in other Member States – Mutual recognition – Effects of a failure to comply with the obligation to publish the reorganisation measure – Articles 17, 21, 38 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Right to property – Effective judicial protection – Consumer protection – Directive 93/13/EC – Article 6(1) – Unfair terms – Principles of legal certainty and the protection of legitimate expectations – Whether the ‘bridge bank’ can be sued.#Joined Cases C-498/22 to C-500/22.cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12790Opinion of Advocate General Ćapeta delivered on 21 March 2024.#European Commission v Czech Republic.#Appeal – Own resources of the European Union – Financial liability of a Member State – Payment to the European Commission of amounts corresponding to a loss of own resources – Action based on unjust enrichment of the European Union – Obligations of the Member States with regard to own resources – Establishment of the amounts of own resources – Entry of amounts not recovered in the B account – Time limits – Exemption from making available amounts corresponding to established entitlements declared irrecoverable – Conditions.#Case C-494/22 P.cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12791Opinion of Advocate General Ćapeta delivered on 21 March 2024.#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.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État.#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.#Case C-399/22.cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12792Case C-714/22, Profi Credit Bulgaria (Services ancillary to a credit agreement): Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 21 March 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski rayonen sad – Bulgaria) – S.R.G. v Profi Credit Bulgaria EOOD (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Consumer protection – Consumer credit agreements – Directive 2008/48/EC– Article 3(g), Article 10(2)(g) and Article 23 – Total cost of the credit to the consumer – No indication of the relevant costs – Penalty – Directive 93/13/EEC – Unfair terms in consumer contracts – Article 3(1), Article 4(2), Article 6(1) and Article 7(1) – Point 1(o) of the annex to Directive 93/13/EEC – Services ancillary to a credit agreement – Terms giving priority to the examination of the credit application of a consumer purchasing those services and to the making available of the sum borrowed as well as providing that consumer with the option of deferring or rescheduling the monthly loan instalments, in return for payment of additional costs)cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12793Case C-703/22, CBR (Hemianopsia): Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 21 March 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State - Netherlands) – WU v Directie van het Centraal Bureau Rijvaardigheidsbewijzen (CBR) (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Transport – Road transport – Directive 2006/126/EC – Driving licences – Conditions for issue or renewal – Minimum standards for physical and mental fitness – Eyesight – Point 6.4 of Annex III – Principle of proportionality – Person not meeting the field of vision requirement – Favourable opinion on fitness to drive issued by medical experts – Discretion in an individual case failing an express exception)cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12794Case C-671/22, Bezirkshauptmannschaft Spittal an der Drau: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 21 March 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof – Austria) – T GmbH v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Spittal an der Drau (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Environment – EU action in the field of water policy – Directive 2000/60/EC – Environmental objectives relating to surface water – Prevention of deterioration of the status of all bodies of surface water – Point 1.2.2 of Annex V – Definitions for ‘high’, ‘good’ and ‘moderate’ ecological status in lakes – Criteria for assessing the biological quality element ‘fish fauna’)cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12795Case C-606/22, Dyrektor Izby Administracji Sjarbowej w Bydgoszczy (Possibility of adjustment in the case of incorrect rate): Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 21 March 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny – Poland) – Dyrektor Izby Administracji Skarbowej w Bydgoszczy v B. sp. z o.o., formerly B. sp.j. (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Taxation – Value added tax (VAT) – Directive 2006/112/EC – Provision of recreational services and services to improve physical fitness – Sale of passes giving access to services whose existence is evidenced by a cash register and by cash register receipts – Taxable amount – Error in the tax rate – Principle of fiscal neutrality – Adjustment of the tax debt as a result of a change in the taxable amount – National practice that does not permit, in the absence of an invoice, a correction of the VAT and a refund of the overpaid VAT – No risk of loss of tax revenue – Plea of unjust enrichment)cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12796Case C-90/22, Gjensidige: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 21 March 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas – Lithuania) – ‘Gjensidige’ ADB (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Judicial cooperation in civil matters – Jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters – Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 – Article 45 – Refusal to recognise a judgment – Article 71 – Relationship between that regulation and conventions governing particular matters – Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) – Article 31(3) – Lis pendens – Agreement conferring jurisdiction – Concept of ‘public policy’)cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12797Case C-61/22, Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 21 March 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Wiesbaden - Germany) - RL v Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Regulation (EU) 2019/1157 – Strengthening the security of identity cards of EU citizens – Validity – Legal basis – Article 21(2) TFEU – Article 77(3) TFEU – Regulation (EU) 2019/1157 – Article 3(5) – Obligation for Member States to include two fingerprints in interoperable digital formats in the storage medium of identity cards – Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Respect for private and family life – Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 35 – Obligation to carry out a data protection impact assessment – Maintaining the effects for a certain time of a regulation which has been declared invalid)cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12798Case C-10/22, LEA: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 March 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale ordinario di Roma - Italy) – Liberi editori e autori (LEA) v Jamendo SA (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 2014/26/EU – Collective management of copyright and related rights – Collective management organisations – Independent management entities – Access to the activity of managing copyright and related rights – Directive 2000/31/EC – Material scope – Article 3(3) – Directive 2006/123/EC – Material scope – Article 17(11) – Article 56 TFEU)cjeu_case · 21 марта 2024 г.
12799Opinion of Advocate General Ćapeta delivered on 21 March 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 · 21 марта 2024 г.
12800Opinion of Advocate General Ćapeta delivered on 21 March 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 · 21 марта 2024 г.