Monitoring References to the Court of Justice of the European Union
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5 case reports
By judgment of 23 January 2018 (ECLI:EU:C:2018:26) the Court held that the European Firearms Pass provisions of the Firearms Directive do not apply to the territory of Gibraltar, as the Directive's travel-facilitation rules concern the free movement of…
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…
By judgment of 16 November 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:879) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 13(2) of Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market must be…
By judgment of 1 October 2015 in the joined Trijber and Harmsen cases (ECLI:EU:C:2015:641) the Court held that Amsterdam canal-boat tours fall within the Services Directive, and that authorisations issued in limited numbers because of scarce resources may…
Amsterdam has a red light district. Aspects of the neighbourhood are regulated by the local authority. So can the local authority refuse to licence a Dutch company that rents apartments to Bulgarian and Hungarian sex workers, on the basis that the people running the company do not speak the…