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702 ingested reports from European Union in 2014. Walk years back as far as this source still publishes.

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0357decided

Opinion of Advocate General Jääskinen delivered on 18 December 2014.#Drukarnia Multipress sp. z o.o. v Minister Finansów.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Wojewódzki Sąd Administracyjny w Krakowie.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Taxation — Directive 2008/7/EC — Article 2(1)(b) and (c) — Indirect taxes on the raising of capital — Subjection to capital duty — Contributions of capital to a partnership limited by shares — Classification of such a partnership as a capital company.#Case C-357/13.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 18 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0628decided

Opinion of Advocate General Wathelet delivered on 18 December 2014.#Jean-Bernard Lafonta v Autorité des marchés financiers.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Approximation of laws — Directive 2003/6/EC — Article 1, point (1) — Directive 2003/124/EC — Article 1(1) — Inside information — Concept of ‘information of a precise nature’ — Potential effect in a particular direction on the prices of financial instruments.#Case C-628/13.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 18 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62014CC0065decided

Opinion of Advocate General Sharpston delivered on 18 December 2014.#Charlotte Rosselle v Institut national d'assurance maladie-invalidité (INAMI) and Union nationale des mutualités libres (UNM).#Request for a preliminary ruling from the tribunal du travail de Nivelles.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 92/85/EEC — Measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding — Article 11(2) and (4) — Established public servant assigned non-active status for personal reasons in order to work as a salaried employee — Refusal to grant her a maternity allowance on the ground that she has not completed, as a salaried employee, the minimum contribution period required in order to be eligible to receive certain social benefits.#Case C-65/14.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 18 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0560decided

Opinion of Advocate General Mengozzi delivered on 18 December 2014.#Finanzamt Ulm v Ingeborg Wagner-Raith.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Free movement of capital — Derogation — Movement of capital involving the provision of financial services — National legislation providing for flat-rate taxation of investment income from holdings in foreign investment funds — Black funds.#Case C-560/13.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 18 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0601decided

Opinion of Advocate General Wathelet delivered on 18 December 2014.#Ambisig – Ambiente e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica SA v Nersant - Associação Empresarial da Região de Santarém and Núcleo Inicial - Formação e Consultoria Lda.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Supremo Tribunal Administrativo.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2004/18/EC — Public service contracts — Conduct of the procedure — Contract award criteria — Qualifications of the staff assigned to performance of the contract.#Case C-601/13.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 18 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0409decided

Opinion of Advocate General Jääskinen delivered on 18 December 2014.#Council of the European Union v European Commission.#Action for annulment — Macro-financial assistance to third countries — Decision of the Commission to withdraw a proposal for a framework regulation — Articles 13(2) TEU and 17 TEU — Article 293 TFEU — Principle of conferral of powers — Principle of institutional balance — Principle of sincere cooperation — Article 296 TFEU — Obligation to state reasons.#Case C-409/13.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 18 December 2014

Report· XGCELEX 52014XG1217(01)open

Communication from the French Government concerning Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions for granting and using authorisations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons (Notice regarding an application for an exclusive licence to prospect for liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons — ‘the Beckenrand Licence’ ) Text with EEA relevance

European Union · Council of the European Union · 17 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0286decided

Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 11 December 2014.#Dole Food Company, Inc. and Dole Fresh Fruit Europe v European Commission.#Appeals — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — European banana market — Coordination in the setting of quotation prices — Obligation to state reasons — Belated statement of reasons — Belated submission of evidence — Rights of defence — Principle of equality of arms — Principles governing the establishment of the facts — Distortion of the facts — Assessment of the evidence — Market structure — Requirement for the Commission to specify those aspects of the exchange of information which constitute a restriction of competition by object — Burden of proof — Calculation of the fine — Whether sales made by subsidiaries not involved in the infringement are to be taken into account — Sales of the same bananas counted twice.#Case C-286/13 P.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 11 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0352decided

Opinion of Advocate General Jääskinen delivered on 11 December 2014.#Cartel Damage Claims (CDC) Hydrogen Peroxide SA v Evonik Degussa GmbH and Others.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Dortmund.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Special jurisdiction — Article 6(1) — Action, brought against several defendants domiciled in various Member States and which have participated in a cartel found to be contrary to Article 81 EC and Article 53 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, seeking an order for the defendants to pay damages jointly and severally and for disclosure of information — Jurisdiction of the court seised with regard to the other defendants — Withdrawal of the action in relation to the defendant domiciled in the Member State of the court seised — Jurisdiction in tort, delict or quasi-delict — Article 5(3) — Jurisdiction clauses — Article 23 — Effective enforcement of the prohibition of anti-competitive agreements, decisions and concerted practices.#Case C-352/13.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 11 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0596decided

Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 11 December 2014.#European Commission v Moravia Gas Storage a.s.#Appeals — Internal market in natural gas — Obligation of natural gas undertakings — Organisation of a system of negotiated third party access to gas storage facilities — Decision of the Czech authorities — Temporary exemption for future underground gas storage facilities in Dambořice — Commission decision — Order to withdraw the exemption decision — Directives 2003/55/EC and 2009/73/EC — Temporal application.#Case C-596/13 P.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 11 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62014CC0043decided

Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 11 December 2014.#ŠKO–Energo s. r. o. v Odvolací finanční ředitelství.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Nejvyšší správní soud.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Protection of the ozone layer — Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the European Union — Method of allocating allowances — Allocation of allowances free of charge — Application of gift tax to such an allocation.#Case C-43/14.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 11 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0293decided

Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 11 December 2014.#Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. v European Commission and European Commission v Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.#Appeals — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — European banana market — Coordination in the setting of quotation prices — Concept of ‘economic unit’ between two companies — Concept of ‘decisive influence’ — Whether the conduct of one company may be imputed to another — Distortion of evidence — Burden of proof — Principle of in dubio pro reo — Concept of ‘single and continuous infringement’ — Concept of ‘concerted practice’ — Concept of ‘infringement by object’ — Undertakings that are members of the same cartel — Communication of information to the Commission — Legal obligation — Scope — Protection against self- incrimination — Intervener at first instance — Cross-appeal — Admissibility.#Joined Cases C-293/13 P and C-294/13 P.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 11 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0226decided

Opinion of Advocate General Bot delivered on 9 December 2014.#Stefan Fahnenbrock and Others v Hellenische Republik.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Wiesbaden.#References for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Service of judicial or extrajudicial documents — Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 — Article 1(1) — Definition of ‘civil and commercial matters’ — State liability for ‘acta iure imperii’.#Case C-226/13.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 9 December 2014

Report· XGCELEX 52014XG1129(02)R(01)open

Corrigendum to the Notice for the attention of the data subjects to whom the restrictive measures provided for in Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014, as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1270/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine applies ( OJ C 429, 29.11.2014 )

European Union · Council of the European Union · 5 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0516decided

Opinion of Advocate General Cruz Villalón delivered on 4 December 2014.#Dimensione Direct Sales srl and Michele Labianca v Knoll International Spa.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Copyright — Directive 2001/29/EC — Article 4(1) — Distribution right – Concept of ‘distribution to the public’ — Offer for sale and advertising by a trader of a Member State on its website, by direct mail and in the press in another Member State — Reproductions of protected furniture for sale without the consent of the holder of the exclusive distribution right — Offer or advertising not leading to the purchase of the original or copies of a protected work.#Case C-516/13.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 4 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0439decided

Opinion of Advocate General Jääskinen delivered on 4 December 2014.#Elitaliana SpA v Eulex Kosovo.#Appeal — Public service contracts — Joint Action 2008/124/CFSP — Call for tenders for helicopter support for the Eulex Mission in Kosovo — Action brought against the decision awarding the contract — Article 24(1), second subparagraph, TEU — Article 275, first paragraph, TFEU — Common foreign and security policy (CFSP) — Jurisdiction of the Court — Article 263, first paragraph, TFEU — Meaning of ‘bodies, offices or agencies of the Union’ — Measures attributable to the European Commission — Excusable error.#Case C-439/13 P.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 4 December 2014

Report· CCCELEX 62013CC0536decided

Opinion of Advocate General Wathelet delivered on 4 December 2014.#"Gazprom" OAO v Lietuvos Respublika.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Scope — Arbitration — Not included — Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards — Order issued by an arbitral tribunal having its seat in a Member State — Order that proceedings not be brought or continued before a court of another Member State — Power of the courts of a Member State to refuse to recognise the arbitral award — New York Convention.#Case C-536/13.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 4 December 2014

Report· XGCELEX 52014XG1202(02)open

Notice for the attention of the data subjects to whom the restrictive measures provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005, as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1275/2014 implementing Articles 9(1) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against persons acting in violation of the arms embargo with regard to the Democratic Republic of the Congo applies

European Union · Council of the European Union · 2 December 2014

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