By judgment of 29 May 2018 (ECLI:EU:C:2018:335) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Examination of the question has not disclosed any issues capable of affecting the validity of Article 4(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 of 24…
Can a policy maker ever resist the application of EU law? Yes, perhaps, if there is a ‘purely internal situation’. It is EU law that in such a situation, EU law will not apply. Dutch authorities are adept at exploiting this ‘loophole’. A couple of years ago, Amsterdam’s council invoked it when…
On 17 October 2013 the Court ruled (ECLI:EU:C:2013:665) that a supplementary protection certificate cannot be granted on the basis of an emergency marketing authorisation issued under Article 8(4) of the Plant Protection Directive; only a definitive (or…