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Case C-206/06, Essent

October 10, 2008 12:50

>> Court of Justice reiterates electricy is product, recaps criteria Art. 87(1) ECThe process of liberalising the Dutch electricity sector in implementation of Directive 96/92 was initiated by a 1998 Law on electricity.A Transitional Law on Electricity provided that “Every customer, not being a p...

Case T-403/05, My Travel

October 02, 2008 20:24

>> CFI reiterates exceptions to right of access to Commission documents must be interpreted and applied strictlyThe applicant, a United Kingdom travel company, had announced its intention to acquire the whole of the issued share capital of one of its competitors in the United Kingdom on the stock...

Joined Cases C-468/06 to C-478/06, Sot. Lélos kai Sia

October 01, 2008 06:47

>> Court finds that Greek pharmaceuticals company abused its dominant position by refusing to meet ordinary orders by wholesalers in order to prevent parallel exportsGlaxoSmithKline AEVE was the Greek subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline, which held the marketing authorisation in Greece for certain...

Case C-427/06, Bartsch

September 30, 2008 22:13

>> National rules requiring link with Community law in order to fall within scope of Article 13 ECIn this case, the referring court asked whether the application of the prohibition under Community law of discrimination on the ground of age was mandatory where the allegedly discriminatory treatment...

Case C-11/07, Eckelkamp

September 30, 2008 21:58

>> Court finds Belgian rules concerning the assessment of inheritance duties and transfer duties incompatible with Articles 56 and 58 ECThis case is largely similar to C-43/07, Arens-Sikken (delivered the same day), on which I wrote this post.The referring court asked whether Arts 12, 17 and 18 EC...

C-43/07, Arens-Sikken

September 30, 2008 21:56

>> Court finds Dutch rules concerning the assessment of inheritance duties and transfer duties incompatible with Articles 56 and 58 ECThis case is largely similar to Case C-11/07, Eckelkamp (delivered the same day), on which I wrote this post.The referring court asked whether the combined...

New CFI judge

September 30, 2008 21:53

>> O'Higgins succeeding Cooke Last July, Mr Kevin O’Higgins was appointed Judge of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities until August 31, 2013. He succeeds Mr John D. Cooke. At September 15, a formal sitting was held at the Court on the occasion of the departure of Mr John D. C...

Joined Cases C?428/06 to C?434/06, UGT?Rioja et al.

September 15, 2008 19:08

>> Court articulates three criteria according to which, in the context of state aid, a decision taken by a regional or local authority could be regarded as having been adopted in the exercise of sufficiently autonomous powers, reiterating much of its judgment in Case C?88/03 Portugal v Commission...

Case C-521/06 P, Athinaïki

September 15, 2008 12:34

>> Court of First Instance erred in law in holding that decision not to take futher action on complaint concerning alleged State aid had no legal effect and could not therefore be the subject of an action under Art. 230 ECOn October 2001, the Greek authorities initiated a procedure for the award of...

Case C-296/08 PPU, Santesteban Goicoechea

September 15, 2008 10:52

>> Second PPU case, Court again asked to interpret Framework Decision European Arrest Warrant Again a case on the European Arrest Warrant Framework. And the second case in which the urgent in which the urgent preliminary rulings procedure as provided for in Art. 104b of the Rules of Procedure was...