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01/17/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-220/05. Auroux e.a. Freedom to Provide Services. An agreement for the redevelopment of an area in a town constitutes a public works contract. 01/17/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-229/05 P. PKK et KNK/ Council. Common Foreign and Security Policy. The court of first instance must reexamine the inclusion of the PKK on a list of terrorist organizations. 01/17/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-313/05. Brzezinski. Free Movement of Goods. Community law precludes a Polish excise duty in so far as it affects second-hand vehicles over two years old imported from another member state more onerously than those already registered in Poland. 01/25/07 Judgments of the Court of Justice in Cases C-402/04 P and Others Sumitomo Metal Industries/ Commission. Competition. The Court Upholds the Judgment of the Court of First Instance Penalising a Cartel of Steel Tubes Producers. 01/25/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-48/05. Approximation of Laws. The Affixing by a Third Party of the Opel Logo on Scale Models of Opel Vehicles Does Not Necessarily Constitute a Prohibited Use. 01/25/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-278/05. Robins e.a. Social Policy. The Members States Are Not Required to Finance Rights to Old-Age Benefits Under Supplementary Pension Schemes Themselves in the Event of the Empployers’ Insolvency. 02/05/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-359/05. Estager. Economic Policy. The Court Clarifies the Rules on Conversion into Euros Provided for by Community Law. 02/08/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-3/06 P. Groupe Danone/ Commission. Competition. The Court of Justice Upholds the Judgment of the Court of First Instance Penalising a Cartel Operating Contrary to Community Law on the Belgian Beer Market. 02/13/07 Opinion of the Advocate General in the Case C-112/05. Commission/ Germany. Freedom to Provide Services. Advocate General Ruiz-Jarabo Takes the View that that Volkswagen Law Restricts the Free Movement of Capital. 02/15/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-292/05. Lechouritou e.a. Cecc. The Court Rules on Compensation for Victims of Acts Perpetrated by Armed Forces in the Course of Warfare. 03/06/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-292/04. Meilicke. Free Movement of Capital. A Member State May Not Reserve the Right to a Tax Credit to Dividends Received From Capital Companies Established in that Member State. 03/06/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Joined Cases C-338/04, C-359/04, C-360/04. Placanica. Freedom to Provide Services. The Court of Justice Rules that the Italian Criminal Penalties for the Collecting of Bets by Intermediaries Acting on Behalf of Foreign Companies are Contrary to Community Law. 03/13/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-524/04. Test Claimants in the Thin Cap Group Litigation. Freedom to Provide Services. The United Kingdom "Thin Cap" Legislation May Be Applied Only to Purely Artificial Tax Arrangements. 03/29/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-347/04. Rewe Zentralfinanz. Freedom to Provide Services. The German Legislation on the Deductibility of Losses Incurred in Respect of Write-Downs to the Book Value of Shareholdings in Subsidiaries Restricts Freedom of Establishment. 06/05/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-170/04. Klas Rosengren and Others v. Riksaklagaren. The Prohibition of the Importation into Sweden of Alcoholic Beverages by Private Individuals Amounts to an Unjustified Quantitative Restriction on the Free Movement of Goods. 06/14/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-127/05. Commissions of the European Communities v. United Kingdom. The Court Dismisses the Commission’s Action against the ‘Reasonably Practicable’ Qualification Contained in the UK Legislation on the Health and Safety of Workers. 06/26/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-305/05. Ordre des Barreaux Francophones et Germanophones e.a. Freedom to Provide Services. Right to a Fair Trial Not Infringed by the Imposition on Lawyers of the Obligations to Inform and Cooperate with the Authorities Responsible for Combating Money Laundering When Participating in Certain Financial Transactions with No Link to Judicial Proceedings. 06/26/07 Judgments of the Court of Justice in Cases C-284/04, C-369/04. T-Mobile Austria e.a. Taxation. The Award by the State of 3G Mobile Telecommunications Licenses by Auction Does No Constitute an Economic Activity. 07/18/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-119/05. Lucchini Siderurgia. Competition. Community Law Precludes Application of the Principle of Res Judicata in Cases Where It Prevents the Recovery of State Aid Granted in Breach of Community Law. 07/18/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-231/05. Oy AA. Freedom to Provide Services. National Legislation Not Allowing a Resident Subsidiary to Deduct an Intra-Group Financial transfer in Favour of Its Foreign Parent Company from its Taxable Income is Compatible with Community Law. 09/11/07 Judgments of the Court of Justice in Cases C-76/05 and C-318/05. Schwarz and Gootjes-Schwarz v. Finanzamt Bergisch Gladbach and Commissions of the European Communities v. Federal Republic of Germany. German Legislation on the Deductibility of School Fees from Income Tax is Contrary to Community Law. 09/17/07 Partial Replacement of the Members of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities 09/17/07 Marc Jaeger Has Been Elected President of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities 10/11/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-117/06. Mollendorf e.a. Common and Foreign Security Policy. A sale of immovable property must not be completed if community law has meanwhile frozen the economic resources of the buyer. 10/11/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Joined Cases C-283/06 and C-312/06. Kogaz and others. Taxation. The Hungarian local business tax is compatible with community law. 10/16/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-411/05. Palacios de la Villa. Principles of Community Law. The Court specifies the conditions under which member states may provide for a difference in treatment on grounds of age. 10/23/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-112/05. Commission/ Germany. Freedom to Provide Services. The Volkswagon law restricts the free movement of capital. 10/23/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-273/04. Poland/ Council. New Accessions. The Court dismisses the action brought by Poland contesting extension of the phasing-in system for direct payments to farmers of the new member states. 10/23/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-440/05. Commission/ Council. Justice and Home Affairs. The European Community is competent to oblige the member states to provide for common criminal penalties in order to combat ship-source pollution. 10/23/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Joined Cases C-11/06 and C-12/06. Morgan. Citizenship of the Union. The German federal law on education and training grants unduly restricts freedom of movement for citizens of the Union. 11/15/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-319/05. Commission/ Germany. Freedom of Movement for Persons. Garlic extract powder capsules are not medicinal products. 12/06/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Joined Cases C-463/04 and C-464/04. Federconsumatori e.a. Free Movement of Capital. A privilege reserved to public bodies which allows them to exercise a level of control in a company limited by shares disproportionate to their shareholding infringes community law. 12/11/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-438/05. The International transport Workers’ Federation et The Finnish Seamen’s Union. Freedom to Provide Services. Collective action seeking to induce a foreign undertaking to conclude a collective labour agreement with a trade union and liable to deter it from exercising its freedom of establishment is a restriction on that freedom. 12/13/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-250/06. United Pan-Europe Communications Belgium e.a. Freedom to Provide Services. The award of must-carry status to broadcaster may be justified by reason of a cultural policy. 12/18/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Cases C-77/05 and C-137/05. United Kingdom/ Council. VISA. The UK and Ireland may take part in the adoption of measures developing the schengen acquis only to the extent that they already take part in the provisions on which the new measure is based. 12/18/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Joined Cases C-396/05, C-419/05 and C-450/05. Habelt. Freedom to Provide Services. Payment of an old-age pension to displaced persons of German nationality or origin must not be refused on the ground that they reside in another member state. 12/18/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-341/05. Laval un Partneri. Freedom to Provide Services. The Court rules on whether collective action by which a trade union attempts to force a foreign service provider to enter into negotiations on pay and to sign a collective agreement is consistent with community law. 12/18/07 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-101/05. A. Free Movement of Capital. The Court of Justice clarifies the application of the principle of free movement of capital in relations between member states and third countries. 01/29/08 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-275/06. Productores de Musica de Espana (Promusicae) v. Telefonica de Espana SAU. The Court Rules on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Society. Community law does not require the Member States, in order to ensure the effective protection of copyright, to law down an obligation to disclose personal data in the context of civil proceedings. 01/31/08 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-380/05. Centro Europa 7. Approximation of Laws. 02/14/08 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-419/06. Commission of the European Communities v. Hellenic Republic. The Court of Justice Gives Judgment against Greece for Not Recovering State Aid Granted to National Airlines. A Member State cannot justify its failure to implement a Commission decision requiring it to recover State aid on the basis of that decision’s alleged illegality. 02/26/08 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-506/06. Sabine Mayr v. Backerei und Konditorei Gerhard Flockner OHG. A Dismissal Essentially Based on the Fact that a Woman is at an Advanced Stage of In Vitro Fertilisation Treatment Is Contrary to the Principle of Equal Treatment for Men and Women. It is for the referring court to determine whether the dismissal is, indeed, essentially based on the fact that the woman is undergoing that treatment. 02/26/08 Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-132/05. Commission of the European Communities v. Federal Republic of Germany. Only Cheeses Bearing the Protected Designation of the Origin (PDO) ‘Parmigiano Reggiano’ Can Be Sold Under that Name ‘Parmesan’. Since the Commission has not established that the German legal system does not sufficiently protect the PDC ‘Parmigiano Reggiano’, the infringement proceedings against Germany are dismissed. |
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