Monitoring References to the Court of Justice of the European Union
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3 case reports
By judgment of 18 May 2017 (ECLI:EU:C:2017:391) the Court held that refusing to issue an RPVA secure-network dongle to a lawyer registered at a bar in another Member State restricts the freedom to provide services, and is justified only where denying…
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 10 July 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:2070) the Court held that the representation of a retail store's layout, by a design alone without size indications, may be registered as a trade mark for services consisting of offerings related to the goods…