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This is a web log about European Union law for students, academics, practitioners and anyone else who may be interested in it

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Last news: March 11, 2008 22:24:22

So perhaps we were a bit skeptical about "Better Regulation" when we wrote up about the Commissions 2007 Annual Report a while back. It looks like we were being unfair. The Commission has recently published a report, COM(2008) 141 final,... - [Read more]

Heres a neat judgment of the Court of Justice on the free movement of goods. The case concerns the censorship and classification of videos and DVDs sold by mail order and over the internet. The judgment is a neat one... - [Read more]

We noted a short while ago the introduction of the urgent preliminary ruling procedure in the area of freedom, security and justice. The procedure is effective from March 1st, 2008. The Court of Justice has issued a press release summarizing... - [Read more]

If there is one interesting development in the case law of the Court of Justice, it is that which concerns citizenship. Take this case, for example, or that one. The Commission publishes a report every so often on "Citizenship of... - [Read more]

The Commission has imposed a penalty payment of € 899 million (US $ 1,359 million) on Microsoft for non-compliance with its obligations under the Commission’s March 2004 Decision prior to 22 October 2007. The Decision, adopted pursuant to Article 24(2)... - [Read more]

The Commission has published its Annual Report for 2007. Theres a special web page devoted to it here. The report is well worth looking at because it contains such of a wealth of information, despite some of the propaganda-speak. Look... - [Read more]

The Court of Justice has handed down an interesting and important judgment in Case C-2/06 Willy Kempter AG in which it opens up the possibility even further to reopen and review national administrative decisions contrary to EC law. Remember the... - [Read more]

Mr. Jean-Jacques Kasel, from Luxembourg, has been appointed to the bench at the Court of Justice. He replaces Judge Romain Schintgen. You can find a brief resume in the Courts press release here. Judge Kasel was sworn in on January... - [Read more]

We dont promise to follow these issues very closely, but you may wish to know that the Court of First Instance handed down its first judgment in a case in which a decision of the Community Plant Variety Office ("CPVO")... - [Read more]

A recent trawl of some questions posed by the European Parliament to the Commission revealed this interesting question and answer about the applicability and scope of the law of the state of the consumer in cross border transactions. Look at... - [Read more]

After the judgment in Case C-438/05 Viking on the freedom of establishment we noted up recently, heres the judgment in Case C-341/05 Laval un Partneri Ltd on the free movement of services. In its judgment in Case C-438/05 the Court... - [Read more]

The Reform-Lisbon Treaty has been published officially now in the Official Journal. You can find it here together with the protocols and the Final Act. But beware, that is not a consolidated version. The Charter of Fundamental Rights has been... - [Read more]

Now here is a curious case ! In its judgment in Case C-161/06 Skoma-Lux the Court of Justice held that the obligations contained in EC legislation which has not been published in the Official Journal in the language of the... - [Read more]

The Charter of Fundamental Rights was signed and proclaimed in Strasbourg, France, by the Presidents of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission. A press release about it can be found here. This is a step in the signing... - [Read more]

The Court of Justice has handed down its eagerly awaited judgment in Case C-438/05 International Transport Workers Federation & The Finnish Seamens Union v. Viking Line. The Court held that the threat of strike action by a trade union to... - [Read more]