Judgments of the Court of Justice

Every judgment the Court itself has marked as interpreting an act in the register, with case number, ECLI and a link straight into the judgment at EUR-Lex and the Court.

193 decisions · Read from EU:s publikationsbyrå, Cellar (EUR-Lex och CURIA) on 2026-08-22.

• C-422/24Court of Justice of the European Union2025-12-18

  Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten v AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Articles 13 and 14 – Scope – Personal data collected by means of body cameras worn by ticket inspectors on public transport – Legal basis for the obligation on the data controller to provide information to the data subject.

• C-492/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-12-02

  X v Russmedia Digital SRL and Inform Media Press SRL

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 4(7) – Concept of ‘controller’ – Responsibility of the operator of an online marketplace for the publication of personal data contained in advertisements placed on its online marketplace by user advertisers – Article 5(2) – Principle of accountability – Article 26 – Joint control with user advertisers – Article 9(1) and (2)(a) – Advertisements containing sensitive data – Lawfulness of processing – Consent – Articles 24, 25 and 32 – Obligations of the controller – Prior identification of the advertisements containing such data – Prior identification of the identity of the user advertiser – Refusal of publication of unlawful advertisements – Security measures such as to prevent the copying of advertisements and their publication on other websites – Electronic commerce – Directive 2000/31/EC – Articles 12 to 15 – Possibility for such an operator, with regard to an infringement of those obligations, to rely on the exemption from liability of an intermediary information society service provider.

• C-654/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-11-13

  Inteligo Media SA v Autoritatea Naţională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector – Directive 2002/58/EC – Article 13(1) and (2) – Unsolicited communications – Concept of communication ‘for the purposes of direct marketing’ – Obtaining electronic contact details ‘in the context of the sale of a product or a service’ – Registration on an online platform giving access to additional content – Sending of a daily newsletter via email – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 6 – Lawfulness of processing – Article 95 – Relationship with Directive 2002/58.

• C-373/24Court of Justice of the European Union2025-10-30

  NI v Republika Hrvatska

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 2003/88/EC – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Article 1(3) – Article 2(1) – Concept of ‘working time’ – Activities of public prosecutors – Directive 89/391/EEC – Article 2(2) – Characteristics peculiar to certain specific public service activities – Periods of time on stand-by at the workplace and periods of time on stand-by according to a stand-by system carried out outside of the workplace – Article 31 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Fair and just working conditions.

• C-110/24Court of Justice of the European Union2025-10-09

  Sindicat de Treballadores i Treballadors de les Administracions i els Serveis Publics (STAS - IV) v Valenciana D’ Estrategies i Recursos per a la Sostenibilitat Ambiental SA (VAERSA)

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 2003/88/EC – Organisation of working time – Point 1 of Article 2 – Concept of ‘working time’ – Works to improve protected natural areas – Time spent by workers travelling between a fixed point of departure and natural areas – Inclusion of that travelling time in the working time of those workers.

• C-115/24Court of Justice of the European Union2025-09-11

  UJ v Österreichische Zahnärztekammer

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Public health – Cross-border healthcare – Directive 2011/24/EU – Article 3(d) and (e) – Provision of healthcare through telemedicine – Concept of ‘telemedicine’ – Cross-border healthcare provided through telemedicine – Complex medical treatment that includes healthcare provided in person and through telemedicine – Member State of treatment – Directive 2000/31/EC – Information society service – Directive 2005/36/EC – Professional qualifications – Freedom to provide services – Scope – Article 56 TFEU.

• C-253/24Court of Justice of the European Union2025-09-04

  Ministero della Giustizia v NZ

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Clause 4 – Principle of non-discrimination – Equal treatment in employment and occupation – Honorary and ordinary members of the judiciary – Clause 5 – Measures intended to prevent and penalise misuse of successive fixed-term contracts – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 7 – Right to paid annual leave – Article 31 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Assessment procedure in order to be permanently confirmed as an honorary member of the judiciary – Waiver, by operation of law, of claims arising from service as an honorary member of the judiciary prior to the assessment procedure – Loss of a right to paid annual leave conferred by EU law.

• C-655/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-09-04

  IP v Quirin Privatbank AG

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Rights of the data subject – Article 17 – Right to erasure of data – Article 18 – Right to restriction of processing – Article 79 – Right to an effective judicial remedy – Unlawful processing of personal data – Action seeking an order requiring the controller to refrain from any further unlawful processing in the future – Basis – Conditions – Article 82(1) – Right to compensation – Concept of ‘non-material damage’ – Assessment of the compensation – Possible consideration of the degree of fault on the part of the controller – Possible impact of the grant of a ‘prohibitory injunction’.

• C-665/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-08-01

  IL v Veracash SAS

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Payment services in the internal market – Directive 2007/64/EC – Article 56(1)(b) – Obligation for the payment service user to notify the payment service provider ‘without undue delay’ of the loss, theft, misappropriation or unauthorised use of his or her payment instrument – Article 58 – Notification of unauthorised payment transactions – Rectification of such a transaction by the payment service provider subject to the obligation for the user of those services to notify that transaction ‘without undue delay … and no later than 13 months after the debit date’ – Articles 60 and 61 – Respective liabilities of the payment service provider and of the payer for unauthorised payment transactions – Successive unauthorised payment transactions resulting from the loss, theft, misappropriation or unauthorised use of a payment instrument – Delayed notification without intent or gross negligence – Scope of the right to a refund.

• C-37/25Court of Justice of the European Union2025-07-15

  YH v S.E.L.A.S. GTC Dijon (Greffe du Tribunal de Commerce de Dijon)

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Social policy – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 7(1) – Entitlement to paid annual leave – Purposes – Sick leave with no restrictions in terms of outings, enabling a worker to rest and enjoy leisure activities – Absence of loss of entitlements to paid annual leave.

• C-509/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-06-19

  SIA „Laimz” v Izložu un azartspēļu uzraudzības inspekcija

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing – Directive (EU) 2015/849 – Point 11(a) of Article 3 – Close associate of a politically exposed person – Definition – Article 45(1) and (8) – Obliged entities that are part of a group – Information sharing within the group – Application of decisions taken by another obliged entity that is part of that group – Article 14(1) and (8) – Ongoing monitoring of customers by obliged entities – Article 11(d) – Enhanced customer due diligence measures for providers of gambling services.

• C-671/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-06-19

  M v Lietuvos bankas

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering and terrorist financing – Directive (EU) 2015/849 – Article 59 – Concept of ‘systematic infringement’ – Penalties – National legislation or practice allowing a separate fine to be imposed in respect of each infringement established in the course of one and the same investigation – Compatibility with EU law – Minimum harmonisation – Observance of the general principles of EU law – Effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions – Principle ne bis in idem.

• C-100/24Court of Justice of the European Union2025-05-15

  Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg e.V. v bonprix Handelsgesellschaft mbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Electronic commerce – Directive 2000/31/EC – Commercial communications – Article 6(c) – Concept of ‘promotional offers’ – Online advertising setting out a specific payment arrangement – Purchase on invoice involving a deferral of payment of the sales price – Information on the need for a prior assessment of the consumer’s creditworthiness only during the online ordering process.

• 62023CJ0313Court of Justice of the European Union2025-04-30

  Inspektorat kam Visshia sadeben savet

  Joined Cases C-313/23, C-316/23 and C-332/23.

• C-710/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-04-03

  L. H. v Ministerstvo zdravotnictví

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 4 – Definitions – Article 6 – Lawfulness of processing – Article 86 – Public access to official documents – Data concerning the representative of a legal person – Case-law of a national court imposing an obligation to inform and consult the data subject prior to disclosure of official documents containing such data.

• C-247/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-03-13

  VP v Országos Idegenrendészeti Főigazgatóság

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 5(1)(d) – Principle of accuracy – Article 16 – Right to rectification – Article 23 – Restrictions – Data relating to gender identity – Data incorrect from the time of inclusion in a public register – Means of proof – Administrative practice of requesting proof of gender reassignment surgery.

• C-203/22Court of Justice of the European Union2025-02-27

  CK v Magistrat der Stadt Wien

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 15(1)(h) – Automated decision-making, including profiling – Scoring – Assessment of the creditworthiness of a natural person – Access to meaningful information about the logic involved in profiling – Verification of the accuracy of the information provided – Directive (EU) 2016/943 – Point 1 of Article 2 – Trade secret – Personal data of third parties.

• C-517/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-02-27

  Apothekerkammer Nordrhein v DocMorris NV

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Medicinal products for human use – Directive 2001/83/EC – Article 86(1) – Concept of ‘advertising of medicinal products’ – Article 87(3) – Advertising of prescription-only medicinal products – Advertising of a pharmacy’s entire range of medicinal products – Vouchers corresponding to a certain sum of money or a percentage reduction for the subsequent purchase of other products – Price reductions and payments with immediate effect – Free movement of goods – Article 34 TFEU – Freedom to provide services – Electronic commerce – Directive 2000/31/EC – Article 3(2) and (4)(a) – Restriction – Justification – Consumer protection.

• C-638/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-02-27

  Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung v Datenschutzbehörde

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 4(7) – Concept of ‘controller’ – Direct designation of the controller by national law – Auxiliary administrative entity in the service of a regional government – Lack of legal personality – Lack of legal capacity of the entity’s own – Determination of the purposes and means of the processing.

• C-383/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-02-13

  Criminal proceedings against ILVA A/S

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 83(4) to (6) and (9) – Concept of an ‘undertaking’ – Parent company and subsidiary – Infringement of that regulation by a subsidiary – Calculation of the amount of the fine – Consideration of the total turnover of the group of which that subsidiary forms part.

• C-394/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-01-09

  Mousse v Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) and SNCF Connect

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 5(1)(c) – Data minimisation – Article 6(1) – Lawfulness of processing – Data relating to title and gender identity – Online sale of travel documents – Article 21 – Right to object.

• C-416/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-01-09

  Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde v F R

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 57(1)(f) and Article 57(4) – Tasks of the supervisory authority – Concepts of a ‘request’ and ‘excessive requests’ – Charging of a reasonable fee or refusal to act on requests in the event of manifestly unfounded or excessive requests – Criteria which may guide the supervisory authority in making its choice – Article 77(1) – Concept of a ‘complaint’.

• C-157/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-12-19

  Ford Italia SpA v ZP and Stracciari SpA

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Liability for defective products – Directive 85/374/EEC – Article 3(1) – Concept of ‘producer’ – Concept of a ‘person who … presents him[- or her]self as … [a] producer’ – Conditions – Supplier whose name is the same in part as that of the producer and as the trade mark put on the product by the producer.

• C-531/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-12-19

  HJ v US and MU

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Daily and weekly rest – Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Directive 2003/88/EC – Articles 3, 5, 6, 16, 17, 19 and 22 – Requirement to establish a system enabling the duration of time worked by domestic workers to be measured – Derogation – National legislation exempting domestic workers from the obligation to record actual time worked.

• C-65/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-12-19

  MK v K GmbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 88(1) and (2) – Processing in the context of employment – Employees’ personal data – More specific rules provided for by a Member State pursuant to that Article 88 – Obligation to comply with Article 5, Article 6(1) and Article 9(1) and (2) of that regulation – Processing on the basis of a collective agreement – Margin of discretion of the parties to the collective agreement as regards the necessity of the processing of personal data provided for by that agreement – Scope of judicial review.

• C-3/24Court of Justice of the European Union2024-12-05

  ‘MISTRAL TRANS’ SIA v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing – Directive (EU) 2015/849 – Scope – Article 2(1)(3)(a) – Obliged entity – Concept of ‘external accountants’ – Accounting services provided, on an ancillary basis, to companies related to the entity providing them.

• C-169/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-11-28

  Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság v UC

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Data processed when drawing up a COVID-19 certificate – Data not collected from the data subject – Information to be provided – Exception to the obligation to provide information – Article 14(5)(c) – Data generated by the controller in the context of its own processes – Right to complain – Competence of the supervisory authority – Article 77(1) – Appropriate measures to protect the data subject’s legitimate interests provided for by the Member State law to which the controller is subject – Measures relating to the security of data processing – Article 32.

• C-200/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-10-04

  Agentsia po vpisvaniyata v OL

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Publication in the commercial register of a company’s constitutive instrument containing personal data – Directive (EU) 2017/1132 – Non-compulsory personal data – Lack of consent of the data subject – Right to erasure – Non-material damage.

• C-21/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-10-04

  ND v DR

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Chapter VIII – Remedies – Medicinal products marketed by a pharmacist on an online platform – Action brought before the national civil courts by a competitor of that pharmacist on the basis of the prohibition of unfair commercial practices for infringement by the pharmacist of the obligations laid down by that regulation – Standing to bring proceedings – Article 4(15) and Article 9(1) and (2) – Directive 95/46/EC – Article 8(1) and (2) – Concept of ‘data concerning health’ – Conditions for the processing of those data.

• C-314/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-10-04

  Sindicato de Tripulantes Auxiliares de Vuelo de Líneas Aéreas (STAVLA) and Ministerio Fiscal v Air Nostrum and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Equal treatment between men and women in matters of employment and occupation – Directive 2006/54/EC – Article 2(1)(e) – Concept of ‘pay’ – Article 4 – Prohibition of indirect discrimination on grounds of sex.

• C-446/21Court of Justice of the European Union2024-10-04

  Maximilian Schrems v Meta Platforms Ireland Limited

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Online social networks – General terms of use relating to contracts concluded between a digital platform and a user – Personalised advertising – Article 5(1)(b) – Principle of purpose limitation – Article 5(1)(c) – Principle of data minimisation – Article 9(1) and (2) – Processing of special categories of personal data – Data concerning sexual orientation – Data which are made public by the data subject.

• C-507/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-10-04

  A v Patērētāju tiesību aizsardzības centrs

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 82(1) – Right to compensation and liability – Unlawful processing of data – Infringement of the right to protection of personal data – Concept of ‘damage’ – Compensation for non-material damage in the form of apologies – Whether permissible – Principle of effectiveness – Assessment of the form and level of compensation – Whether possible to take into consideration the attitude and motivation of the controller.

• C-621/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-10-04

  Koninklijke Nederlandse Lawn Tennisbond v Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 5(1)(a) – Lawfulness of processing – Point (f) of the first subparagraph of Article 6(1) – Necessity of processing for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party – Concept of ‘legitimate interests’ – Commercial interest – Sports federation – Disclosure, for consideration, of the personal data of the members of a sports federation to sponsors without the consent of those members.

• C-768/21Court of Justice of the European Union2024-09-26

  TR v Land Hessen

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 57(1)(a) and (f) – Tasks of the supervisory authority – Article 58(2) – Corrective powers – Administrative fine – Discretion of the supervisory authority – Limits.

• C-88/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-09-19

  Parfümerie Akzente GmbH v KTF Organisation AB

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Electronic commerce – Information society services – Directive 2000/31/EC – Coordinated field – Article 2(h) – Online promotion and sale of cosmetic products – Exclusion from the coordinated field of labelling obligations applicable to products promoted and sold by an information society service provider – Directive 75/324/EEC – Article 8(2) – Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 – Article 19(5) – Option for the Member State of destination to enforce use of a language of its choice.

• 62022CJ0017Court of Justice of the European Union2024-09-12

  HTB Neunte Immobilien Portfolio geschlossene Investment UG & Co. KG and Ökorenta Neue Energien Ökostabil IV geschlossene Investment GmbH & Co. KG v Müller Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH and Others

  Joined Cases C-17/22 and C-18/22.

• 62022CJ0184Court of Justice of the European Union2024-07-29

  IK and CM v KfH Kuratorium für Dialyse und Nierentransplantation e.V

  Joined Cases C-184/22 and C-185/22.

• C-435/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-07-29

  Glavna direktsia 'Granichna politsia' kam Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti v BO

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Questions the answer to which may be clearly deduced from the Court’s existing case-law – Social policy – Organisation of working time – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 12(а) – Articles 20 and 31 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Safety and health of night workers – Level of protection for night workers appropriate to the nature of their work – Police officers and firefighters performing shift and night work – Public sector workers and private sector workers – Equal treatment.

• C-689/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-07-24

  S. G. v Unione di Comuni Alta Marmilla

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 7(2) – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Right to paid annual leave – Allowance in lieu of leave not taken paid at the end of the employment relationship – National legislation refusing payment of such an allowance to staff of public administrative authorities, including the managers of those administrative authorities.

• C-409/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-07-11

  UA v 'Eurobank Bulgaria' AD

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Free movement of capital – Payment services in the internal market – Directive 2007/64/EC – Concept of ‘payment instrument’ – Power of attorney of an agent acting on behalf of the account holder – Copy of the power of attorney with an ‘apostille’ certificate – Articles 54 and 59 – Consent to the execution of a payment transaction – Concept of ‘authentication’ – Unauthorised payment transactions – Liability of the payment service provider for those transactions – Burden of proof.

• C-461/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-07-11

  MK v WB

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 2(2)(c) – Scope – Exclusion – Purely personal or household activity – Article 4(7) – Controller – Former guardian who performed his or her duties in a professional capacity – Article 15 – Access of the person who has been placed under legal guardianship to data collected by that former guardian during the performance of his or her duties.

• C-757/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-07-11

  Meta Platforms Ireland Limited v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände - Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – First sentence of Article 12(1) – Transparency of information – Article 13(1)(c) and (e) – Obligation of the controller to provide information – Article 80(2) – Representation of data subjects by a consumer protection association – Representative action in the absence of a mandate and independently of the infringement of specific rights of a data subject – Action based on infringement by the controller of its obligation to provide information – Concept of ‘infringement of [the rights of a data subject] as a result of the processing’.

• C-41/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-06-27

  AV and Others v Ministero della Giustizia

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Clauses 2 and 4 – Principle of non-discrimination – Equal treatment in employment and occupation – Honorary members of the judiciary and ordinary members of the judiciary – Clause 5 – Measures intended to penalise improper use of fixed-term contracts – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 7 – Paid annual leave.

• C-367/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-06-20

  EA v Artemis security SAS

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 9(1)(a) – Obligation to assess the health of night workers – Employer’s failure to comply with that obligation – Right to compensation – Need to establish the existence of specific harm.

• C-590/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-06-20

  AT and BT v PS GbR and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 82(1) – Right to compensation for damage caused by data processing which infringes that regulation – Concept of ‘non-material damage’ – Impact of the seriousness of the damage suffered – Assessment of the amount of compensation – Claim for compensation for non-material damage based on fear – Inapplicability of the criteria laid down for administrative fines in Article 83 – Dissuasive function – Assessment where that regulation and national law are infringed simultaneously.

• Mål C-182/22 och C-189/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-06-20

  JU and SO v Scalable Capital GmbH

  Joined Cases C-182/22 and C-189/22.

• C-229/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-06-13

  Criminal proceedings against HYA and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Telecommunications sector – Processing of personal data and the protection of privacy – Directive 2002/58/EC – Article 15(1) – Restriction of the confidentiality of electronic communications – Judicial decision authorising listening, tapping and storage in respect of telephone conversations of persons suspected of having committed a serious intentional offence – National legislation requiring that that decision must itself contain an express statement of reasons in writing, irrespective of the existence of a reasoned application made by the criminal authorities – Second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Obligation to state reasons.

• 62022CJ0662Court of Justice of the European Union2024-05-30

  Airbnb Ireland UC and Amazon Services Europe Sàrl v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni

  Joined Cases C-662/22 and C-667/22.

• 62022CJ0664Court of Justice of the European Union2024-05-30

  Google Ireland Ltd and Eg Vacation Rentals Ireland Ltd v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni

  Joined Cases C-664/22 and C-666/22.

• C-665/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-05-30

  Amazon Services Europe Sàrl v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Freedom to provide services – Providers of information society services – Obligation to provide information on the economic situation of a provider of online intermediation services – Directive 2000/31/EC – Coordinated field – Principle of control in the home Member State – Exemptions – Concept of measures ‘taken against a given information society service’ – Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 – Objective.

• C-312/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-05-27

  Addiko Bank d.d. v Agencija za zaštitu osobnih podataka

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Questions the answer to which may be clearly deduced from the Court’s existing case-law – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and free movement of such data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 15 – Right of access by the data subject to the personal data concerning him or her that are undergoing processing – Right to obtain a copy of those data – Concept of ‘copy’ – Reasons for the request for access to those data – Use of the data to bring legal proceedings.

• C-178/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-04-30

  Criminal proceedings against Unknown individuals

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector – Confidentiality of communications – Providers of electronic communications services – Directive 2002/58/EC – Article 15(1) – Articles 7, 8, 11 and Article 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Access to those data requested by a national authority having competence to prosecute offences of aggravated theft – Definition of the concept of ‘serious offence’ the prosecution of which is capable of justifying serious interference with fundamental rights – Competence of the Member States – Principle of proportionality – Scope of prior review by a court of the requests to access the data retained by providers of electronic communications services.

• C-470/21Court of Justice of the European Union2024-04-30

  La Quadrature du Net and Others v Premier ministre and Ministère de la Culture

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector – Directive 2002/58/EC – Confidentiality of electronic communications – Protection – Article 5 and Article 15(1) – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Articles 7, 8 and 11 and Article 52(1) – National legislation aimed at combating, through action by a public authority, counterfeiting offences committed on the internet – ‘Graduated response’ procedure – Upstream collection by rightholder organisations of IP addresses used for activities infringing copyright or related rights – Downstream access by the public authority responsible for the protection of copyright and related rights to data relating to the civil identity associated with those IP addresses retained by providers of electronic communications services – Automated processing – Requirement of prior review by a court or an independent administrative body – Substantive and procedural conditions – Safeguards against the risks of abuse and against any unlawful access to or use of those data.

• C-22/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-04-18

  'Citadeles nekustamie īpašumi' SIA v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing – Directive (EU) 2015/849 – Scope – Obliged entity – Article 3(7)(c) – Concept of ‘trust or company service provider’ – Provision of a registered office – Owner of immovable property who has entered into leases with legal persons – Registration of the registered office of such legal persons in that immovable property.

• C-741/21Court of Justice of the European Union2024-04-11

  GP v juris GmbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 82 – Right to compensation for damage caused by data processing that infringes that regulation – Concept of ‘non-material damage’ – Impact of the seriousness of the damage suffered – Liability of the controller – Possible exemption in the event of default of a person acting under his or her authority within the meaning of Article 29 – Assessment of the amount of compensation – Inapplicability of the criteria laid down for administrative fines in Article 83 – Assessment in the event of multiple infringements of that regulation.

• C-46/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-03-14

  Budapest Főváros IV. Kerület Újpest Önkormányzat Polgármesteri Hivatala v Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 58(2)(d) and (g) – Powers of the supervisory authority of a Member State – Paragraph 17(1) – Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) – Erasure of unlawfully processed personal data – Power of the national supervisory authority to order the controller or processor to erase those data without a prior request from the data subject.

• C-604/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-03-07

  IAB Europe v Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Standard-setting sectoral organisation proposing to its members rules on the processing of users’ consent – Article 4(1) – Concept of ‘personal data’ – String of letters and characters capturing, in a structured and machine-readable manner, the preferences of an internet user relating to the consent of that user to the processing of his or her personal data – Article 4(7) – Concept of ‘controller’ – Article 26(1) – Concept of ‘joint controllers’ – Organisation which does not itself have access to the personal data processed by its members – Responsibility of the organisation extending to the subsequent processing of data carried out by third parties.

• C-740/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-03-07

  Endemol Shine Finland Oy

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Articles 2, 4, 6, 10 and 86 – Data held by a court relating to the criminal convictions of a natural person – Oral disclosure of such data to a commercial company on account of a competition organised by that company – Concept of ‘processing of personal data’ – National legislation governing access to those data – Reconciliation between the right of public access to official documents and the protection of personal data.

• C-661/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-02-22

  'ABC Projektai' UAB v Lietuvos bankas

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Payment services in the internal market – Directive (EU) 2015/2366 – Article 4(3) and (5) – Payment service or payment transaction – Directive 2009/110/EC – Article 2(2) – Issuance of electronic money – Holding of customer funds by a payment institution without a specific payment order – Classification.

• C-687/21Court of Justice of the European Union2024-01-25

  BL v MediaMarktSaturn Hagen-Iserlohn GmbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Interpretation of Articles 5, 24, 32 and 82 – Assessment of the validity of Article 82 – Inadmissibility of the request for an assessment of validity – Right to compensation for damage caused by data processing which infringes that regulation – Transmission of data to an unauthorised third party on account of an error made by the employees of the controller – Assessment of the appropriateness of the protection measures implemented by the controller – Compensatory function fulfilled by the right to compensation – Effect of the severity of the infringement – Whether necessary to establish the existence of damage caused by that infringement – Concept of ‘non-material damage’.

• C-218/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-01-18

  BU v Comune di Copertino

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 7 – Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Allowance in lieu of days of leave not taken at the end of the employment relationship – National legislation prohibiting payment of that allowance in the event of the voluntary resignation of a public servant – Control of public expenditure – Organisational needs of the public employer.

• C-33/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-01-16

  Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde v WK

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Article 16 TFEU – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 2(2)(a) – Scope – Exclusions – Activities which fall outside the scope of Union law – Article 4(2) TEU – Activities concerning national security – Committee of inquiry set up by the parliament of a Member State – Article 23(1)(a) and (h), Articles 51 and 55 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Competence of the supervisory authority responsible for data protection – Article 77 – Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority – Direct effect.

• C-231/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-01-11

  État belge v Autorité de protection des données

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Point 7 of Article 4 – Concept of ‘controller’ – Official journal of a Member State – Obligation to publish as they stand company documents prepared by companies or their legal representatives – Article 5(2) – Successive processing of the personal data contained in such documents by several separate persons or entities – Determination of responsibilities.

• C-667/21Court of Justice of the European Union2023-12-21

  ZQ v Medizinischer Dienst der Krankenversicherung Nordrhein, Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 6(1) – Conditions for lawful processing – Article 9(1) to (3) – Processing of special categories of data – Data concerning health – Assessment of an employee’s working capacity – Health insurance medical service processing data concerning the health of its own employees – Conditions for such processing and whether permissible – Article 82(1) – Right to compensation and liability – Compensation for non-material damage – Compensatory function – Impact of negligence on the part of the data controller.

• C-340/21Court of Justice of the European Union2023-12-14

  VB v Natsionalna agentsia za prihodite

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 5 – Principles relating to that processing – Article 24 – Accountability of the controller – Article 32 – Measures implemented to ensure security of processing – Assessment of the appropriateness of such measures – Scope of judicial review – Taking of evidence – Article 82 – Right to compensation and liability – Possible exemption from liability of the controller in the event of infringement by third parties – Claim for compensation for non-material damage based on fear of potential misuse of personal data.

• C-456/22Court of Justice of the European Union2023-12-14

  VX and AT v Gemeinde Ummendorf

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 82 – Right to compensation and liability – Concept of ‘non-material damage’ – Online publication of the agenda for a municipal council meeting containing personal data – Publication without the consent of the data subjects – Claim of those data subjects seeking compensation for non-material damage.

• 62022CJ0026Court of Justice of the European Union2023-12-07

  UF and AB v Land Hessen

  Joined Cases C-26/22 and C-64/22.

• C-634/21Court of Justice of the European Union2023-12-07

  OQ v Land Hessen

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 22 – Automated individual decision-making – Credit information agencies – Automated establishment of a probability value concerning the ability of a person to meet payment commitments in the future (‘scoring’) – Use of that probability value by third parties.

• C-683/21Court of Justice of the European Union2023-12-05

  Nacionalinis visuomenės sveikatos centras prie Sveikatos apsaugos ministerijos v Valstybinė duomenų apsaugos inspekcija

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 4(2) and (7) – Concepts of ‘processing’ and ‘controller’ – Development of a mobile IT application – Article 26 – Joint control – Article 83 – Imposition of administrative fines – Conditions – Requirement that the infringement be intentional or negligent – Responsibility and liability of the controller for the processing of personal data carried out by a processor.

• C-807/21Court of Justice of the European Union2023-12-05

  Deutsche Wohnen SE v Staatsanwaltschaft Berlin

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 4(7) – Concept of ‘controller’ – Article 58(2) – Powers of supervisory authorities to apply corrective measures – Article 83 – Imposition of administrative fines on a legal person – Conditions – Discretion of the Member States – Requirement that the infringement be intentional or negligent.

• 62022CJ0271Court of Justice of the European Union2023-11-09

  XT and Others v Keolis Agen SARL

  Joined Cases C-271/22 to C-274/22.

• C-376/22Court of Justice of the European Union2023-11-09

  Google Ireland Limited and Others v Kommunikationsbehörde Austria (Komm Austria)

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 2000/31/EC – Information society services – Article 3(1) – Principle of control in the home Member State – Article 3(4) – Derogation from the principle of free movement of information society services – Concept of ‘measures taken against a given information society service’ – Article 3(5) – Possibility of a posteriori notification of measures restricting the free movement of information society services in urgent cases – Failure to provide notification – Enforceability of those measures – Legislation of a Member State imposing on providers of communication platforms, whether established on its territory or not, a set of obligations relating to the monitoring and notification of allegedly unlawful content – Directive 2010/13/EU – Audiovisual media services – Video-sharing platform service.

• C-307/22Court of Justice of the European Union2023-10-26

  FT v DW

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Articles 12, 15 and 23 – Data subject’s right of access to his or her data undergoing processing – Right to obtain a first copy of those data free of charge – Processing of a patient’s data by his or her medical practitioner – Medical records – Reasons for the request for access – Use of data for the purpose of triggering the liability of the person providing treatment – Concept of ‘copy’.

• C-57/22Court of Justice of the European Union2023-10-12

  YQ v Ředitelství silnic a dálnic ČR

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 7(1) – Right to paid annual leave – Worker unlawfully dismissed and then reinstated in his or her employment by decision of a court – Exclusion from the right to paid annual leave not taken for the period between the dismissal and the reinstatement – Period between the date of dismissal and the date of the reinstatement.

• C-795/22Court of Justice of the European Union2023-10-10

  Adolfo v Direccion000 CB and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Articles 53 and 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Social policy – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 7 – Right to paid annual leave – Allowance in lieu of leave not taken after the termination of the employment relationship – One-year limitation period – Adequate information provided to the worker.

• C-279/22Court of Justice of the European Union2023-10-05

  CH v Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Fellebbviteli Igazgatósága

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 2013/34/EU – Annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings – Scope of application – Funds of a company used by an employee of that company – Determination of the taxable basis of that employee’s income including those funds.

• C-162/22Court of Justice of the European Union2023-09-07

  A. G. v Lietuvos Respublikos generalinė prokuratūra

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Telecommunications – Processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector – Directive 2002/58/EC – Scope – Article 15(1) – Data retained by providers of electronic communications services and made available to authorities in charge of criminal proceedings – Subsequent use of those data in an investigation into misconduct in office.

• C-626/21Court of Justice of the European Union2023-05-17

  Funke Sp. z o.o. v Landespolizeidirektion Wien

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Directive 2001/95/EC – Article 12 and Annex II – Technical standards and regulations – European Union Rapid Information System (RAPEX) – Guidelines – Dangerous non-food products – Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/417 – Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 – Articles 20 and 22 – Notifications to the European Commission – Administrative decision – Prohibition on the sale of certain pyrotechnic articles and obligation to withdraw – Request from a distributor of the products concerned that the notification be supplemented – Authority competent to give a decision on the request – Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Effective judicial protection.

• 62021CJ0529Court of Justice of the European Union2023-05-04

  OP and Others v Glavna direktsia 'Pozharna bezopasnost i zashtita na naselenieto' kam Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti

  Joined Cases C-529/21 to C-536/21 and C-732/21 to C-738/21.

• C-192/22Court of Justice of the European Union2023-04-27

  FI v Bayerische Motoren Werke AG

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 7(1) – Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Right to paid annual leave – Lapse of that right – Progressive retirement scheme – Days of annual leave acquired under that scheme but as yet untaken – Incapacity for work.

• C-351/21Court of Justice of the European Union2023-03-16

  ZG v Beobank SA

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Payment services in the internal market – Directive 2007/64/EC – Article 47(1)(a) – Information for the payer after receipt of the payment order – Articles 58, 60 and 61 – Payment service provider’s liability for unauthorised transactions – Obligation of that service provider to refund unauthorised transactions to the payer – Framework contracts – Obligation of that service provider to provide that payer with information relating to the payee concerned.

• C-449/21Court of Justice of the European Union2023-03-16

  Towercast v Autorité de la concurrence and Ministère de l’Économie

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Competition – Control of concentrations between undertakings – Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 – Article 21(1) – Exclusive application of that regulation to operations covered by the concept of ‘concentration’ – Scope – Concentration operation which has no Community dimension, is below the thresholds for mandatory ex ante control laid down in the law of a Member State and has not been referred to the European Commission – Control of such an operation by the competition authorities of that Member State in the light of Article 102 TFEU – Whether permissible.

• C-561/22Court of Justice of the European Union2023-03-07

  Willy Hermann Service GmbH and DI v Präsidentin des Landesgerichts Feldkirch

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Directive 2013/34/EU – Articles 30 and 51 – Publication of financial statements – Penalties for failure to publish – Imposition of periodic penalty payments by a civil court – Administrative procedure for the recovery of those periodic penalty payments, which have become final – Legislation precluding the review of those periodic penalty payments by an administrative court – Res judicata – Principle of effectiveness – Proportionality.

• C-477/21Court of Justice of the European Union2023-03-02

  IH v MÁV-START Vasúti Személyszállító Zrt

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Directive 2003/88/EC – Articles 3 and 5 – Daily rest and weekly rest – National legislation providing for a minimum weekly rest period of 42 hours – Obligation to grant daily rest – Rules for granting.

• C-349/21Court of Justice of the European Union2023-02-16

  HYA and Othersprokuratura

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Telecommunications sector – Processing of personal data and the protection of privacy – Directive 2002/58 – Article 15(1) – Restriction of the confidentiality of electronic communications – Judicial decision authorising the interception, recording and storage of telephone conversations of persons suspected of having committed a serious intentional offence – Practice whereby the decision is drawn up in accordance with a pre-drafted template text that does not contain individualised reasons – Second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Obligation to state reasons.

• C-691/21Court of Justice of the European Union2022-11-24

  Cafpi SA and Aviva assurances SA v Enedis SA

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 85/374/EEC – Article 3 – Liability for defective products – Meaning of ‘producer’ – Operator of an electricity distribution network changing the electricity voltage level for distribution.

• 62020CJ0037Court of Justice of the European Union2022-11-22

  WM and Sovim SA v Luxembourg Business Registers

  Joined Cases C-37/20 and C-601/20.

• C-350/21Court of Justice of the European Union2022-11-17

  Proceedings brought by Spetsializirana prokuratura

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data in the electronic communication sector – Confidentiality of communications – Providers of electronic communications services – General and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data for a period of six months – Combatting serious crime – Access to the retained data – Informing data subjects – Right to bring an action – Directive 2002/58/EC – Article 15(1) and (2) – Directive (EU) 2016/680 – Articles 13 and 54 – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Articles 7, 8, 11 and 47 and Article 52(1).

• C-562/20Court of Justice of the European Union2022-11-17

  SIA 'Rodl & Partner' v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing – Directive (EU) 2015/849 – Article 18(1) and (3) – Annex III, point 3(b) – Risk-based approach – Risk assessment conducted by obliged entities – Identification of risks by Member States and obliged entities – Customer due diligence measures – Enhanced due diligence measures – High-corruption-risk third countries – Article 13(1)(c) and (d) – Evidence and documentation requirements imposed on obliged entities – Article 14(5) – Ongoing customer monitoring imposed on obliged entities – Publication of decisions imposing a sanction.

• C-129/21Court of Justice of the European Union2022-10-27

  Proximus NV v Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data and protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector – Directive 2002/58/EC – Article 12 – Public telephone directories and directory enquiry services – Subscriber’s consent – Obligations of the provider of directories and of directory enquiry services – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 17 – Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) – Article 5(2) – Article 24 – Information obligations and responsibility of the controller.

• C-49/20Court of Justice of the European Union2022-10-04

  SF v Teritorialna direktsia na NAP - Plovdiv

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Articles 53 and 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Directive (EU) 2015/849 – Scope – National legislation requiring payments over a certain amount to be made exclusively by bank transfer or by deposit into a payment account.

• 62020CJ0518Court of Justice of the European Union2022-09-22

  XP and AR v Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide and St. Vincenz-Krankenhaus GmbH

  Joined Cases C-518/20 and C-727/20.

• C-120/21Court of Justice of the European Union2022-09-22

  LB v TO

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 7 – Right to paid annual leave – Allowance in lieu of leave not taken after the termination of the employment relationship – Three-year limitation period – Starting point – Adequate information provided to the worker.

• 62020CJ0339Court of Justice of the European Union2022-09-20

  Criminal proceedings against VD bd]&

  Joined Cases C-339/20 and C-397/20.

• 62021CJ0257Court of Justice of the European Union2022-07-07

  Coca-Cola European Partners Deutschland GmbH v L.B. and R.G

  Joined Cases C-257/21 and C-258/21.

• C-264/21Court of Justice of the European Union2022-07-07

  Keskinäinen Vakuutusyhtiö Fennia v Koninklijke Philips NV

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 85/374/EEC – Liability for defective products – Article 3(1) – Concept of ‘producer’ – Any person who, by putting his name, trade mark or other distinguishing feature on the product, or having authorised those particulars to be put on the product, presents himself as its producer.

• C-405/20Court of Justice of the European Union2022-05-05

  EB and Others v Versicherungsanstalt öffentlich Bediensteter, Eisenbahnen und Bergbau (BVAEB)

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Article 157 TFEU – Protocol (No 33) – Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation – Directive 2006/54/EC – Article 5(c) and Article 12 – Prohibition of indirect discrimination on grounds of sex – Occupational social security scheme applicable after the date referred to in those provisions – Retirement pensions of civil servants – National legislation providing for an annual adjustment of retirement pensions – Adjustment on a reducing scale depending on the amount of the retirement pension, with no adjustment at all above a certain amount – Justifications.

• C-236/20Court of Justice of the European Union2022-04-07

  PG v Ministero della Giustizia and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP – Clauses 2 and 4 – Framework Agreement on part-time work concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC – Clause 4 – Principle of non-discrimination – Equal treatment in employment and occupation – Magistrates and ordinary judges – Clause 5 – Measures intended to penalise improper use of fixed-term contracts – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 7 – Paid annual leave.

• C-140/20Court of Justice of the European Union2022-04-05

  G.D. v The Commissioner of the Garda Síochána and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector – Confidentiality of the communications – Providers of electronic communications services – General and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data – Access to data – Subsequent court supervision – Directive 2002/58/EC – Article 15(1) – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Articles 7, 8 and 11 and Article 52(1) – Possibility for a national court to restrict the temporal effect of a declaration of the invalidity of national legislation that is incompatible with EU law – Excluded.

• C-262/20Court of Justice of the European Union2022-02-24

  VB v Glavna direktsia 'Pozharna bezopasnost i zashtita na naselenieto'

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Organisation of working time – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 8 – Article 12(а) – Articles 20 and 31 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Reduction of the normal duration of night work in relation to day work – Public-sector workers and private-sector workers – Equal treatment.

• C-514/20Court of Justice of the European Union2022-01-13

  DS v Koch Personaldienstleistungen GmbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Article 31(2) – Directive 2003/88/EC – Organisation of working time – Article 7 – Annual leave – Working time – Overtime – Calculation of working time on a monthly basis – No overtime pay when taking annual leave.

• C-217/20Court of Justice of the European Union2021-12-09

  XXXX v Staatssecretaris van Financiën

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 2003/88/EC – Organisation of working time – Protection of the health and safety of workers – Article 7(1) – Right to paid annual leave – Level of remuneration – Reduced remuneration due to incapacity for work.

• C-484/20Court of Justice of the European Union2021-12-02

  Vodafone Kabel Deutschland GmbH v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände - Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband eV

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Consumer protection – Directive (EU) 2015/2366 – Payment services – Article 62(4) – Charges applicable – Article 107(1) – Full harmonisation – Article 115(1) and (2) – Transposition and application – Subscriptions for cable television and internet access – Contracts of indefinite duration concluded before the date for transposition of that directive – Charges applied to payment transactions without direct debit authorisation that are initiated after that date.

• C-102/20Court of Justice of the European Union2021-11-25

  StWL Städtische Werke Lauf a.d. Pegnitz GmbH v eprimo GmbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 2002/58/EC – Processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector – Article 2(h) – Concept of ‘electronic mail’ – Article 13(1) – Concept of ‘use of … electronic mail for the purposes of direct marketing’ – Directive 2005/29/EC – Unfair commercial practices – Annex I, point 26 – Concept of ‘persistent and unwanted solicitations by email’ – Advertising messages – Inbox advertising.

• C-233/20Court of Justice of the European Union2021-11-25

  WD v job-medium GmbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 2003/88/EC – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Article 7(1) – Right to an allowance in lieu of paid annual leave not taken before the end of the employment relationship – Early termination of the employment relationship by the employee.

• C-214/20Court of Justice of the European Union2021-11-11

  MG v Dublin City Council

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 2 – Concept of ‘working time’ – Retained firefighter – Stand-by time according to a stand-by system – Pursuit, during the period of stand-by time, of a self-employed professional activity – Constraints arising from the stand-by system.

• C-909/19Court of Justice of the European Union2021-10-28

  BX v Unitatea Administrativ Teritorială D

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Directive 2003/88/EC – Organisation of working time – Article 2(1) and (2) – Concepts of ‘working time’ and ‘rest period’ – Mandatory vocational training undertaken at the employer’s request.

• C-544/19Court of Justice of the European Union2021-10-06

  „ЕCOTEX BULGARIA“ LTD v Teritorialna direktsia na Natsionalnata agentsia za prihodite

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 63 TFEU – Free movement of capital – Directive (EU) 2015/849 – Scope – National legislation requiring payments exceeding a certain amount to be made only by transfer or deposit into a payment account – Article 65 TFEU – Justification – Combating tax evasion and tax avoidance – Proportionality – Administrative penalties of a criminal nature – Article 49 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Principles of legality and proportionality of criminal offences and penalties.

• C-107/19Court of Justice of the European Union2021-09-09

  XR v Dopravní podnik hl. m. Prahy, a.s

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 2003/88/EC – Organisation of working time – Concepts of ‘working time’ and ‘rest period’ – Break during which the employee must remain ready to respond to a call-out within a two-minute time limit – Primacy of EU law.

• C-337/20Court of Justice of the European Union2021-09-02

  DM and LR v Caisse régionale de Crédit agricole mutuel (CRCAM) - Alpes-Provence

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Payment services in the internal market – Directive 2007/64/EC – Articles 58 and 60 – Payment service user – Notification of unauthorised payment transactions – Liability of the payment service provider for those transactions – Action for liability brought by the guarantor of a payment service user.

• C-742/19Court of Justice of the European Union2021-07-15

  B. K. v Republika Slovenija (Ministrstvo za obrambo)

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Members of the armed forces – Applicability of EU law – Article 4(2) TEU – Directive 2003/88/EC – Scope – Article 1(3) – Directive 89/391/EEC – Article 2(2) – Military activities – Concept of ‘working time’ – Stand-by period – Dispute concerning the remuneration of a worker.

• 62018CJ0682Court of Justice of the European Union2021-06-22

  Frank Peterson v Google LLC and Others and Elsevier Inc.v Cyando AG

  Joined Cases C-682/18 and C-683/18.

• C-597/19Court of Justice of the European Union2021-06-17

  Mircom International Content Management & Consulting (M.I.C.M.) Limited v Telenet BVBA

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Intellectual property – Copyright and related rights – Directive 2001/29/EC – Article 3(1) and (2) – Concept of ‘making available to the public’ – Downloading of a file containing a protected work via a peer-to-peer network and the simultaneous provision for uploading pieces of that file – Directive 2004/48/EC – Article 3(2) – Misuse of measures, procedures and remedies – Article 4 – Persons entitled to apply for the application of measures, procedures and remedies – Article 8 – Right of information – Article 13 – Concept of ‘prejudice’ – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Point (f) of the first subparagraph of Article 6(1) – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Lawfulness of processing – Directive 2002/58/EC – Article 15(1) – Legislative measures to restrict the scope of the rights and obligations – Fundamental rights – Articles 7 and 8, Article 17(2) and the first paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European.

• C-65/20Court of Justice of the European Union2021-06-10

  VI v KRONE – Verlag Gesellschaft mbH & Co KG

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Consumer protection – Liability for defective products – Directive 85/374/EEC – Article 2 – Concept of ‘defective product’ – Copy of a printed newspaper containing inaccurate health advice – Exclusion from the directive’s scope.

• C-471/20Court of Justice of the European Union2021-04-23

  Centre d’Enseignement Secondaire Saint-Vincent de Soignies ASBL v FS

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 53(2) and Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court – Social policy – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Directive 2003/88/EC – Maximum weekly working time – Reference period – Article 16 – Derogations – Articles 17 and 18 – Supervisor-teacher at a boarding school undertaking night duty – Compensatory rest conditions.

• C-585/19Court of Justice of the European Union2021-03-17

  Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti v Organismul Intermediar pentru Programul Operaţional Capital Uman - Ministerul Educaţiei Naţionale

  References for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 2 – Definition of ‘working time’ – Article 3 – Minimum period of daily rest – Workers having concluded several employment contracts with the same employer – Application by worker.

• C-344/19Court of Justice of the European Union2021-03-09

  D. J. v Radiotelevizija Slovenija

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 2 – Concept of ‘working time’ – Stand-by time according to a stand-by system – Specific work maintaining television transmitters situated far away from residential areas – Directive 89/391/EEC – Articles 5 and 6 – Psychosocial risks – Obligation to prevent.

• C-580/19Court of Justice of the European Union2021-03-09

  RJ v Stadt Offenbach am Main

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Organisation of working time – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 2 – Concept of ‘working time’ – Period of stand-by time according to a stand-by system – Professional firefighters – Directive 89/391/EEC – Articles 5 and 6 – Psychosocial risks – Obligation to prevent.

• C-841/19Court of Justice of the European Union2021-03-03

  JL v Fondo de Garantía Salarial (Fogasa)

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Directive 2006/54/EC – Articles 2(1) and 4 – Equal pay for male and female workers – Framework agreement on part-time work – Clause 4 – Part-time workers, primarily female – National guarantee institution for the payment of outstanding claims of relevant workers against their insolvent employers – Ceiling on the payment of those claims – Amount of the ceiling reduced for part-time workers in accordance with the hours worked by the latter in relation to the hours worked by full-time workers – Principle of pro rata temporis.

• C-746/18Court of Justice of the European Union2021-03-02

  Criminal proceedings against H. K

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector – Directive 2002/58/EC – Providers of electronic communications services – Confidentiality of the communications – Limitations – Article 15(1) – Articles 7, 8 and 11 and Article 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Legislation providing for the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data by providers of electronic communications services – Access of national authorities to retained data for the purpose of investigations – Combating of crime in general – Authorisation given by the public prosecutor’s office – Use of data in criminal proceedings as evidence – Admissibility.

• C-62/19Court of Justice of the European Union2020-12-03

  Star Taxi App SRL v Unitatea Administrativ Teritorială Municipiul Bucureşti prin Primar General and Consiliul General al Municipiului Bucureşti

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 56 TFEU – Applicability – Purely internal situation – Directive 2000/31/EC – Article 2(a) – Meaning of ‘Information Society services’ – Article 3(2) and (4) – Article 4 – Applicability – Directive 2006/123/EC – Services – Chapters III (Freedom of establishment for providers) and IV (Free movement of services) – Applicability – Articles 9 and 10 – Directive (EU) 2015/1535 – Article 1(1)(e) and (f) – Meaning of ‘rule on services’ – Meaning of ‘technical regulation’ – Article 5(1) – Failure to communicate in advance – Enforceability – Activity of connecting persons wishing to make urban journeys with authorised taxi drivers, by means of a smartphone application – Classification – National regulations subjecting that activity to prior authorisation.

• C-463/19Court of Justice of the European Union2020-11-18

  Syndicat CFTC du personnel de la Caisse primaire d’assurance maladie de la Moselle v Caisse primaire d’assurance maladie de Moselle

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 2006/54/EC – Equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in employment and occupation – Articles 14 and 28 – National collective agreement granting the right to leave following the statutory maternity leave for female workers who bring up their children on their own – Exclusion of male workers from the right to that leave – Protection of female workers as regards both the consequences of pregnancy and the condition of maternity – Conditions under which applicable.

• C-287/19Court of Justice of the European Union2020-11-11

  DenizBank AG v Verein für Konsumenteninformation

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Consumer protection – Directive (EU) 2015/2366 – Payment services in the internal market – Article 4(14) – Concept of ‘payment instrument’ – Personalised multifunctional bank cards – Near-field communication (NFC) functionality – Article 52(6)(a) and Article 54(1) – Information to be provided to users – Change in the conditions of a framework contract – Tacit consent – Article 63(1)(a) and (b) – Rights and obligations related to payment services – Derogation for low-value payment instruments – Conditions under which applicable – Payment instrument that does not allow its blocking – Payment instrument used anonymously – Limitation of the temporal effects of the judgment.

• C-778/18Court of Justice of the European Union2020-10-15

  Association française des usagers de banques v Ministre de l'Économie et des Finances

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Consumer protection – Payment services in the internal market – Directive 2007/64/EC – Article 45 – Directive (EU) 2015/2366 – Article 55 – Termination of a framework contract – Directive 2014/17/EU – Credit agreements for consumers relating to residential immovable property – Article 12(1), (2)(a) and (3) – Tying practices – Bundling practices – Directive 2014/92/EU – Payment accounts – Articles 9 to 14 – Account switching – Obligation to deposit income on a payment account held with the lender during a period fixed by the credit agreement as consideration for an individual advantage – Duration of the obligation – Loss of the individual advantage in the event of early termination of the account.

• 62018CJ0511Court of Justice of the European Union2020-10-06

  La Quadrature du Net and Others v Premier ministre and Others

  Joined Cases C-511/18, C-512/18 and C-520/18.

• C-623/17Court of Justice of the European Union2020-10-06

  Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector – Providers of electronic communications services – General and indiscriminate transmission of traffic data and location data – Safeguarding of national security – Directive 2002/58/EC – Scope – Article 1(3) and Article 3 – Confidentiality of electronic communications – Protection – Article 5 and Article 15(1) – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Articles 7, 8 and 11 and Article 52(1) – Article 4(2) TEU.

• C-649/18Court of Justice of the European Union2020-10-01

  A v Daniel B and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Medicinal products for human use not subject to compulsory medical prescription – Online sales – Advertising for a pharmacy’s website – Limitations – Prohibition on discounts where the order exceeds certain amounts and the use of paid referencing – Obligation to require a patient to complete a health questionnaire prior to validation of his or her first order on a pharmacy’s website – Protection of public health – Directive 2000/31/EC – Electronic commerce – Article 2(a) – Information society service – Article 2(h) – Coordinated field – Article 3 – Country-of-origin principle – Derogations – Justification – Protection of public health – Protection of the dignity of the profession of pharmacist – Prevention of the abusive consumption of medicinal products.

• C-223/19Court of Justice of the European Union2020-09-24

  YS v NK

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Equal treatment in employment and occupation – Directives 2000/78/EC and 2006/54/EC – Scope – Prohibition of indirect discrimination on grounds of age or sex – Justifications – National legislation providing for an amount to be withheld from pensions paid directly to their recipients by undertakings in which the State has a majority participation and for the cancellation of the indexation of the amount of those pensions – Articles 16, 17, 20 and 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Applicability – Discrimination on grounds of property – Infringement of the freedom of contract – Infringement of the right to property – Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights – Right to an effective remedy.

• C-658/18Court of Justice of the European Union2020-07-16

  UX v Governo della Repubblica italiana

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Admissibility — Article 267 TFEU — Definition of ‘court or tribunal of a Member State’ — Criteria — Social policy — Directive 2003/88/EC — Scope — Article 7 — Paid annual leave — Directive 1999/70/EC — Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP — Clauses 2 and 3 — Concept of ‘fixed-term worker’ — Magistrates and ordinary judges — Difference in treatment — Clause 4 — Principle of non-discrimination — Concept of ‘objective grounds’.

• C-588/18Court of Justice of the European Union2020-06-04

  Federación de Trabajadores Independientes de Comercio (Fetico) and Others v Grupo de Empresas DIA S.A. and Twins Alimentación S.A

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Protection of the safety and health of workers — Organisation of working time — Directive 2003/88/EC — Articles 5 and 7 — Weekly rest — Annual leave — Paid special leave permitting time off from work to meet specific needs and obligations.

• C-211/19Court of Justice of the European Union2020-04-30

  UO v Készenléti Rendőrség

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Protection of the safety and health of workers — Directive 2003/88/EC — Scope — Derogation — Article 1(3) — Directive 89/391/EEC — Article 2(2) — Activities of rapid intervention police officers.

• C-692/19Court of Justice of the European Union2020-04-22

  B v Yodel Delivery Network Ltd

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court — Directive 2003/88/EC — Organisation of working time — Concept of ‘worker’ — Parcel delivery undertaking — Classification of couriers engaged under a services agreement — Possibility for a courier to engage subcontractors and to perform similar services concurrently for third parties.

• C-480/18Court of Justice of the European Union2020-04-02

  AS „PrivatBank” v Finanšu un kapitāla tirgus komisija

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Payment services in the internal market — Directive 2007/64/EC — Material and personal scope — Payment services provided in a currency other than the euro or the currency of a Member State outside the euro area — Payment services provided by a credit institution — Non-execution or defective execution of a payment order — Person liable — Prudential supervision procedure — Complaint procedures — Out-of-court-redress — Competent authorities.

• C-390/18Court of Justice of the European Union2019-12-19

  Criminal proceedings against X

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2000/31/EC — Information society services — Directive 2006/123/EC — Services — Connection of hosts, whether businesses or individuals, with accommodation to rent with persons seeking that type of accommodation — Qualification — National legislation imposing certain restrictions on the exercise of the profession of real estate agent — Directive 2000/31/EC — Article 3(4)(b), second indent — Obligation to give notification of measures restricting the freedom to provide information society services — Failure to give notification — Enforceability — Criminal proceedings with an ancillary civil action.

• 62017CJ0609Court of Justice of the European Union2019-11-19

  Terveys- ja sosiaalialan neuvottelujärjestö (TSN) ry v Hyvinvointialan liitto ry and Auto- ja Kuljetusalan Työntekijäliitto AKT ry v Satamaoperaattorit ry

  Joined Cases C-609/17 and C-610/17.

• 62018CO0439Court of Justice of the European Union2019-10-15

  OH and ER v Agencia Estatal de la Administración Tributaria (AEAT)

  Joined Cases C-439/18 and C-472/18.

• C-18/18Court of Justice of the European Union2019-10-03

  Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland Limited

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Information society — Free movement of services — Directive 2000/31/EC — Liability of intermediary service providers — Article 14(1) and (3) — Hosting services provider — Possibility of requiring the service provider to terminate or prevent an infringement — Article 18(1) — Personal, material and territorial limits on the scope of an injunction — Article 15(1) — No general obligation to monitor.

• C-673/17Court of Justice of the European Union2019-10-01

  Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände - Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. v Planet49 GmbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 95/46/EC — Directive 2002/58/EC — Regulation (EU) 2016/679 — Processing of personal data and protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector — Cookies — Concept of consent of the data subject — Declaration of consent by means of a pre-ticked checkbox.

• C-404/18Court of Justice of the European Union2019-06-20

  Jamina Hakelbracht and Others v WTG Retail BVBA

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 2006/54/EC — Equal treatment for men and women — Access to employment and working conditions — Article 24 — Protection against retaliatory measures — Rejection of a candidate due to her pregnancy — Employee intervening in favour of that candidate — Dismissal of that employee.

• C-55/18Court of Justice of the European Union2019-05-14

  Federación de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) v Deutsche Bank SAE

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Protection of the safety and health of workers — Organisation of working time — Article 31(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Directive 2003/88/EC — Articles 3 and 5 — Daily and weekly rest — Article 6 — Maximum weekly working time — Directive 89/391/EEC — Safety and health of workers at work — Requirement to set up a system enabling the duration of time worked each day by each worker to be measured.

• C-254/18Court of Justice of the European Union2019-04-11

  Syndicat des cadres de la sécurité intérieure v Premier ministre and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2003/88/EC — Organisation of working time — Protection of the safety and health of workers — Maximum weekly working time — Reference period — Rolling or fixed nature — Derogation — Police officers.

• C-295/18Court of Justice of the European Union2019-04-11

  Mediterranean Shipping Company (Portugal) - Agentes de Navegação SA v Banco Comercial Português SA and Caixa Geral de Depósitos, SA

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Payment services in the internal market — Directive 2007/64/EC — Articles 2 and 58 — Scope — Payment service user — Meaning — Execution of a direct-debit payment order issued by a third party in respect of an account of which that party is not the holder — No authorisation from the holder of the debited account — Unauthorised payment transactions.

• C-245/18Court of Justice of the European Union2019-03-21

  Tecnoservice Int. Srl, in liquidation v Poste Italiane SpA

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Payment services in the internal market — Directive 2007/64/EC — Article 74(2) — Payment order by credit transfer — Incorrect unique identifier provided by the payer — Execution of the payment transaction on the basis of the unique identifier — Liability of the payee’s payment service provider.

• C-385/17Court of Justice of the European Union2018-12-13

  Torsten Hein v Albert Holzkamm GmbH & Co

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Organisation of working time — Directive 2003/88/EC — Right to paid annual leave — Article 7(1) — Legislation of a Member State under which collective agreements may provide for account to be taken of periods of short-time working when calculating remuneration to be paid in respect of annual leave — Temporal effects of judgments ruling on interpretation.

• C-296/18Court of Justice of the European Union2018-10-23

  Conseil départemental de l’ordre des chirurgiens-dentistes de la Haute-Garonne v RG and Dental Cabinet of Doctor RG SELARL

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Directive 2000/31/EC — Information society service — Online advertising — Regulated profession — Dental surgeon — National legislation prohibiting all online advertising.

• C-207/16Court of Justice of the European Union2018-10-02

  Proceedings brought by Ministerio Fiscal

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Electronic communications — Processing of personal data — Directive 2002/58/EC — Articles 1 and 3 — Scope — Confidentiality of electronic communications — Protection — Article 5 and Article 15(1) — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Articles 7 and 8 — Data processed in connection with the provision of electronic communications services — Access of national authorities to the data for the purposes of an investigation — Threshold of seriousness of an offence capable of justifying access to the data.

• C-41/17Court of Justice of the European Union2018-09-19

  Isabel González Castro v Mutua Umivale and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 92/85/EEC — Articles 4, 5 and 7 — Protection of the safety and health of workers — Worker who is breastfeeding — Night work — Shift work performed in part at night — Risk assessment of her work — Prevention measures — Challenge by the worker concerned — Directive 2006/54/EC — Article 19 — Equal treatment — Discrimination on grounds of sex — Burden of proof.

• C-633/16Court of Justice of the European Union2018-05-31

  Ernst & Young P/S v Konkurrencerådet

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Control of concentrations of undertakings — Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 — Article 7(1) — Implementation of a concentration prior to notification to the European Commission and declaration of compatibility with the common market — Prohibition — Scope — Concept of ‘concentration’ — Termination of a cooperation agreement with a third party by one of the merging undertakings.

• C-568/16Court of Justice of the European Union2018-03-22

  Rasool Entertainment GmbH and Staatsanwaltschaft Stuttgart v Faiz Rasool

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Payment services — Directive 2007/64/EC — Article 3(e) and (o) — Article 4(3) — Annex — Point 2 — Scope — Operation of multifunctional terminals enabling cash withdrawals in gaming arcades — Consistency of the practice of the national authorities in bringing prosecutions — Confiscation of sums obtained by means of an unlawful activity — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Article 17.

• 62017CO0142Court of Justice of the European Union2018-02-07

  Manuela Maturi and Others v Fondazione Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera di Roma v Manuela Maturi and Others and Catia Passeri v Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

  Joined Cases C-142/17 and C-143/17.

• C-643/16Court of Justice of the European Union2018-02-07

  American Express Co. v The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive (EU) 2015/2366 — Payment services in the internal market — Article 35(1) — Obligation to provide authorised or registered payment service providers with access to payment systems — Point (b) of the first subparagraph of Article 35(2) — Inapplicability of that obligation to payment systems composed exclusively of payment service providers belonging to a group — Applicability of that obligation to three party payment card schemes that have entered into co-branding or agency arrangements — Validity.

• C-434/15Court of Justice of the European Union2017-12-20

  Asociación Profesional Elite Taxi v Uber Systems Spain, SL

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 56 TFEU — Article 58(1) TFEU — Services in the field of transport — Directive 2006/123/EC — Services in the internal market — Directive 2000/31/EC — Directive 98/34/EC — Information society services — Intermediation service to connect, by means of a smartphone application and for remuneration, non-professional drivers using their own vehicle with persons who wish to make urban journeys — Requirement for authorisation.

• C-531/15Court of Justice of the European Union2017-10-19

  Elda Otero Ramos v Servicio Galego de Saúde and Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 92/85/EEC — Article 4(1) — Protection of the safety and health of workers — Breastfeeding worker — Risk assessment of her work — Challenged by the worker concerned — Directive 2006/54/EC — Article 19 — Equal treatment — Discrimination on grounds of sex — Burden of proof.

• C-248/16Court of Justice of the European Union2017-09-07

  Austria Asphalt GmbH & Co OG v Bundeskartellanwalt

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Competition — Concentrations between undertakings — Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 — Article 3(1)(b) and (4) — Scope — Definition of ‘concentration’ — Change in the form of control of an existing undertaking which, previously exclusive, becomes joint — Creation of a joint venture performing on a lasting basis all the functions of an autonomous economic entity.

• C-354/16Court of Justice of the European Union2017-07-13

  Ute Kleinsteuber v Mars GmbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 2000/78/EC — Articles 1, 2 and 6 — Equal treatment — Prohibition of any discrimination on grounds of sex — Occupational pension — Directive 97/81/EC — Framework Agreement on part-time work — Clause 4.1 and 4.2 — Method for calculating acquired pension rights — Legislation of a Member State — Different treatment of part-time workers.

• C-621/15Court of Justice of the European Union2017-06-21

  N. W and Others v Sanofi Pasteur MSD SNC and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 85/374/EEC — Liability for defective products — Article 4 — Pharmaceutical laboratories — Vaccination against hepatitis B — Multiple sclerosis — Proof of defect of vaccine and of causal link between the defect and the damage suffered — Burden of proof — Methods of proof — Lack of scientific consensus — Serious, specific and consistent evidence left to the discretion of the court ruling on the merits — Whether permissible — Conditions.

• C-339/15Court of Justice of the European Union2017-05-04

  Criminal proceedings against Luc Vanderborght

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 56 TFEU — Freedom to provide services — Provision of oral and dental care — National legislation prohibiting, in absolute terms, advertising for oral and dental care services — Existence of a cross-border element — Protection of public health — Proportionality — Directive 2000/31/EC — Information society service — Advertising via an internet site — Member of a regulated profession — Professional rules — Directive 2005/29/EC — Unfair trading practices — National provisions relating to health — National provisions governing regulated professions.

• C-375/15Court of Justice of the European Union2017-01-25

  BAWAG PSK Bank für Arbeit und Wirtschaft und Österreichische Postsparkasse AG v Verein für Konsumenteninformation

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2007/64/EC — Payment services in the internal market — Framework contracts — Prior general information — Obligation to provide that information on paper or on another durable medium — Information transmitted by means of the electronic mailbox of an online banking website.

• 62015CJ0203Court of Justice of the European Union2016-12-21

  Tele2 Sverige AB v Post- och telestyrelsen and Secretary of State for the Home Department v Tom Watson and Others

  Joined Cases C-203/15 and C-698/15.

• C-484/14Court of Justice of the European Union2016-09-15

  Tobias Mc Fadden v Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Information society — Free movement of services — Commercial wireless local area network (WLAN) — Made available to the general public free of charge — Liability of intermediary service providers — Mere conduit — Directive 2000/31/EC — Article 12 — Limitation of liability — Unknown user of the network — Infringement of rights of rightholders over a protected work — Duty to secure the network — Tortious liability of the trader.

• C-423/15Court of Justice of the European Union2016-07-28

  Nils-Johannes Kratzer v R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 2000/78/EC — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Article 3(1)(a) — Directive 2006/54/EC — Equal opportunities and equal treatment between men and women in matters of employment and occupation — Article 14(1)(a) — Scope — Definition of ‘access to employment, to self-employment or to occupation’ — Application for a post for the purpose of acquiring the formal status of applicant only in order to claim compensation for discrimination — Abuse of rights.

• C-407/14Court of Justice of the European Union2015-12-17

  María Auxiliadora Arjona Camacho v Securitas Seguridad España, SA

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 2006/54/EC — Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation — Discriminatory dismissal — Article 18 — Compensation or reparation for the loss and damage actually sustained — Deterrent effect — Article 25 — Penalties — Punitive damages.

• C-222/14Court of Justice of the European Union2015-07-16

  Konstantinos Maïstrellis v Ypourgos Dikaiosynis, Diafaneias kai Anthropinon Dikaiomaton

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 96/34/EC — Framework agreement on parental leave — Clause 2.1 — Individual right to parental leave on the grounds of the birth of a child — National legislation denying the right to such leave for a staff member whose wife does not work — Directive 2006/54/EC — Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation — Articles 2(1)(a) and 14(1)(c) — Working conditions — Direct discrimination.

• 62013CJ0503Court of Justice of the European Union2015-03-05

  Boston Scientific Medizintechnik GmbH v AOK Sachsen-Anhalt – Die Gesundheitskasse and Betriebskrankenkasse RWE

  Joined Cases C-503/13 and C-504/13.

• C‑310/13Court of Justice of the European Union2014-11-20

  Novo Nordisk Pharma GmbH v S

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 85/374/EEC — Consumer protection — Liability for defective products — Material scope of the directive — Special liability system existing on the date of notification of that directive — Permissibility of a national liability system enabling information on the adverse effects of pharmaceutical products to be obtained.

• C‑291/13Court of Justice of the European Union2014-09-11

  Sotiris Papasavvas v O Fileleftheros Dimosia Etaireia Ltd and Others

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2000/31/EC — Scope — Defamation proceedings.

• C‑318/13Court of Justice of the European Union2014-09-03

  X

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 79/7/EEC — Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security — Accident insurance for workers — Amount of a lump-sum compensation for permanent incapacity — Actuarial calculation based on average life expectancy by sex of the recipient of that compensation — Sufficiently serious infringement of EU law.

• C‑616/11Court of Justice of the European Union2014-04-09

  T-Mobile Austria GmbH v Verein für Konsumenteninformation

  Directive 2007/64/EC — Payment services — Article 4.23 — Concept of payment instrument — Ordering transfers through online banking and by paper transfer order — Article 52(3) — Right of the payee to request from the payer charges for the use of a payment instrument — Power of Member States to lay down a general prohibition — Contract between a mobile phone operator and individuals.

• C‑167/12Court of Justice of the European Union2014-03-18

  C. D. v S. T

  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 8 — Commissioning mother who has had a baby through a surrogacy arrangement — Refusal to grant her maternity leave — Directive 2006/54/EC — Equal treatment of male and female workers — Article 14 — Less favourable treatment of a commissioning mother as regards the grant of maternity leave.

• C‑363/12Court of Justice of the European Union2014-03-18

  Z. v A Government department and The Board of management of a community school

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 2006/54/EC — Equal treatment of male and female workers — Commissioning mother who has had a baby through a surrogacy arrangement — Refusal to grant her paid leave equivalent to maternity leave or adoptive leave — United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities − Directive 2000/78/EC — Equal treatment in employment and occupation — Prohibition of any discrimination on the ground of disability — Commissioning mother unable to bear a child — Existence of a disability — Validity of Directives 2006/54 and 2000/78.

• C‑595/12Court of Justice of the European Union2014-03-06

  Loredana Napoli v Ministero della Giustizia — Dipartimento dell’Amministrazione penitenziaria

  Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 2006/54/EC — Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation — Training course for acquiring the status of a public official — Exclusion on grounds of a prolonged absence — Absence attributable to maternity leave.

• C‑119/12Court of Justice of the European Union2012-11-22

  Josef Probst v mr.nexnet GmbH

  Electronic communications — Directive 2002/58/EC — Article 6(2) and (5) — Processing of personal data — Traffic data necessary for billing and debt collection — Debt collection by a third company — Persons acting under the authority of the providers of public communications networks and electronic communications services.

• C-415/10Court of Justice of the European Union2012-04-19

  Galina Meister v Speech Design Carrier Systems GmbH

  Directives 2000/43/EC, 2000/78/EC and 2006/54/EC – Equal treatment in employment and occupation – Worker showing that he meets the requirements listed in a job advertisement – Right of that worker to have access to information indicating whether the employer has recruited another applicant.

• C‑461/10Court of Justice of the European Union2012-04-19

  Bonnier Audio AB and Others v Perfect Communication Sweden AB

  Copyright and related rights — Processing of data by internet — Infringement of an exclusive right — Audio books made available via an FTP server via internet by an IP address supplied by an internet service provider — Injunction issued against the internet service provider ordering it to provide the name and address of the user of the IP address.

• C-292/10Court of Justice of the European Union2012-03-15

  G v Cornelius de Visser

  Jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters — Public notification of legal documents — Lack of known domicile or place of abode of the defendant in the territory of a Member State — Jurisdiction ‘in matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict’ — Infringement of the right to protection of personality liable to have been committed by the publication of photographs on the Internet — Place where the harmful event occurred or may occur.

• C-360/10Court of Justice of the European Union2012-02-16

  Belgische Vereniging van Auteurs, Componisten en Uitgevers CVBA (SABAM) v Netlog NV

  Information society — Copyright — Internet — Hosting service provider — Processing of information stored on an online social networking platform — Introducing a system for filtering that information in order to prevent files being made available which infringe copyright — No general obligation to monitor stored information.

• C-495/10Court of Justice of the European Union2011-12-21

  Centre hospitalier universitaire de Besançon v Thomas Dutrueux and Caisse primaire d'assurance maladie du Jura

  Directive 85/374/EEC - Liability for defective products - Scope - National rules requiring public healthcare establishments to pay compensation, even when they are not at fault, for damage sustained by a patient as a result of the failure of equipment or products used in the course of treatment.

• C-70/10Court of Justice of the European Union2011-11-24

  Scarlet Extended SA v Société belge des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs SCRL (SABAM)

  Information society - Copyright - Internet - ‘Peer-to-peer’ software - Internet service providers - Installation of a system for filtering electronic communications in order to prevent file sharing which infringes copyright - No general obligation to monitor information transmitted.

• 62009CJ0509Court of Justice of the European Union2011-10-25

  eDate Advertising GmbH and Others v X and Société MGN LIMITED

  Joined Cases C-509/09 and C-161/10.

• C-324/09Court of Justice of the European Union2011-07-12

  L’Oréal SA and Others v eBay International AG and Others

  Trade marks - Internet - Offer for sale, on an online marketplace targeted at consumers in the European Union, of trade-marked goods intended, by the proprietor, for sale in third States - Removal of the packaging of the goods - Directive 89/104/EEC - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Liability of the online-marketplace operator - Directive 2000/31/EC (‘Directive on electronic commerce’) - Injunctions against that operator - Directive 2004/48/EC (‘Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights’).

• C-543/09Court of Justice of the European Union2011-05-05

  Deutsche Telekom AG v Bundesrepublik Deutschland

  Electronic communications - Directive 2002/22/EC - Article 25(2) - Directive 2002/58/EC - Article 12 - Provision of directory enquiry services and directories - Obligation placed on an undertaking assigning telephone numbers to pass to other undertakings data in its possession relating to the subscribers of third-party undertakings.

• C-108/09Court of Justice of the European Union2010-12-02

  Ker-Optika bt v ÀNTSZ Dél-dunántúli Regionális Intézete

  Free movement of goods - Public health - Selling of contact lenses via the Internet - National legislation authorising the sale of contact lenses solely in medical supply shops - Directive 2000/31/EC - Information society - Electronic commerce.

• 62008CJ0236Court of Justice of the European Union2010-03-23

  Google France SARL and Google Inc. v Louis Vuitton Malletier SA (C-236/08), Google France SARL v Viaticum SA and Luteciel SARL (C-237/08) and Google France SARL v Centre national de recherche en relations humaines (CNRRH) SARL and Others (C-238/08)

  Joined cases C-236/08 to C-238/08.

• C-358/08Court of Justice of the European Union2009-12-02

  Aventis Pasteur SA v OB

  Directive 85/374/EEC - Liability for defective products - Articles 3 and 11 - Mistake in the classification of ‘producer’ - Judicial proceedings - Application for substitution of the producer for the original defendant - Expiry of the limitation period.

• C-285/08Court of Justice of the European Union2009-06-04

  Moteurs Leroy Somer v Dalkia France and Ace Europe

  Liability for defective products - Directive 85/374/EEC - Scope - Damage to an item of property intended for professional use and employed for that purpose - National system permitting the injured person to seek compensation for such damage, where he simply proves the damage, the defect and the causal link - Compatibility.

• C-132/08Court of Justice of the European Union2009-04-30

  Lidl Magyarország Kereskedelmi bt v Nemzeti Hírközlési Hatóság Tanácsa

  Free movement of goods - Radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment - Mutual recognition of conformity - Non-recognition of the declaration of conformity issued by the manufacturer established in another Member State.

• C-557/07Court of Justice of the European Union2009-02-19

  LSG-Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Leistungsschutzrechten GmbH v Tele2 Telecommunication GmbH

  Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure - Information society - Copyright and related right - Retention and disclosure of certain traffic data - Protecting the confidentiality of electronic communication - 'Intermediaries' within the meaning of Article 8(3) of Directive 2001/29/EC.

• C-298/07Court of Justice of the European Union2008-10-16

  Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände - Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband eV v deutsche internet versicherung AG

  Directive 2000/31/EC - Article 5(1)(c) - Electronic commerce - Internet service provider - Electronic mail.

• C-275/06Court of Justice of the European Union2008-01-29

  Productores de Música de España (Promusicae) v Telefónica de España SAU

  Information society - Obligations of providers of services - Retention and disclosure of certain traffic data - Obligation of disclosure - Limits - Protection of the confidentiality of electronic communications - Compatibility with the protection of copyright and related rights - Right to effective protection of intellectual property.

• C-127/04Court of Justice of the European Union2006-02-09

  Declan O'Byrne v Sanofi Pasteur MSD Ltd and Sanofi Pasteur SA

  Directive 85/374/EEC - Liability for defective products - Definition of "putting into circulation' of the product - Supply by the producer to a wholly owned subsidiary.

• C-402/03Court of Justice of the European Union2006-01-10

  Skov Æg v Bilka Lavprisvarehus A/S and Bilka Lavprisvarehus A/S v Jette Mikkelsen and Michael Due Nielsen

  Directive 85/374/EEC - Liability for defective products - Liability of the supplier of a defective product.

• C-183/00Court of Justice of the European Union2002-04-25

  María Victoria González Sánchez v Medicina Asturiana SA

  Approximation of laws - Directive 85/374/EEC - Product liability - Relationship with other systems of liability.

• C-203/99Court of Justice of the European Union2001-05-10

  Henning Veedfald v Århus Amtskommune

  Approximation of laws - Directive 85/374/EEC - Liability for defective products - Exemption from liability - Conditions.

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