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 public sector pension provider be awarded a contract without there having been an advert or a tendering procedure? Background There is a clinic in the German spa town of Bad Reichenhall. It used to be in the public sector and run by the ‘VBG’, the VBG Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft.…
By judgment of 7 September 2017 (ECLI:EU:C:2017:643) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (the EC Merger Regulation)…
By judgment of 14 November 2017 (ECLI:EU:C:2017:860) the Grand Chamber held that practices of producer organisations and their associations escape Article 101 TFEU only where they remain strictly within the tasks the common market organisation assigns to…
On 27 September 2017 the Court ruled (ECLI:EU:C:2017:724) that where co-defendants in different Member States are sued over the same supply chain, a Community-design court can grant remedies with EU-wide effect against both.
By judgment of 18 July 2017 (ECLI:EU:C:2017:562) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 45 TFEU must be interpreted as not precluding legislation of a Member State, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, under which the…
On 4 May 2016 the Court upheld the Second Tobacco Products Directive in full (ECLI:EU:C:2016:325): the menthol ban, the labelling and standardisation rules, the leeway for further national packaging measures and the specific e-cigarette regime of Article…
If the social partners agree to award an undertaking the exclusive right to administer an insurance scheme that benefits employees in a particular sector of the French economy, then does Article 56 TFEU’s transparency obligation apply before the relevant French Minister can declare the collective…
On 11 September 2014 the Court ruled (ECLI:EU:C:2014:2197) that terms of a terminated collective agreement which continue to produce effects under national "continued effect" (Nachwirkung) rules are "terms and conditions agreed in a collective agreement"…