The interaction between EU law and international law is an intriguing subject. The receptiveness of domestic legal orders vis-à-vis the international legal order is an all-time classic of foreign relations law and of course of even greater interest where the ‘domestic’ legal order in question has itself its roots in international law. That the EU … Read more
Rekindling the ultra-vires debate? Most lawyers in the field of European Union law seem to have reached an (unspoken) consensus that breaches of the principle of conferral of powers (Art. 5(2) TEU) either do not occur or can not be successfully challenged before the ECJ anyway. Contrary to this, Advocate General (AG) Emiliou’s Opinion from … Read more
The European Data Protection Board Guidelines on pseudonymisation were adopted on January 16, 2025, and are open for consultation until February 28, 2025. The EDPB has been working on this piece of guidance for several years. Initially, they were intended to be part of a broader set of guidelines dedicated to both anonymisation and pseudonymisation, … Read more
Introduction On the 29th of January this year, the General Court dismissed the Irish Data Protection Commission’s (DPC) action seeking to annul parts of three decisions issued by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) (Joined Cases T-70/23, T-84/23, and T-111/23). In these decisions, the EDPB directed the DPC to expand its investigation into the data … Read more
The Court of Justice has been recently presented with some cases where a State aid measure was argued to have (not) infringed EU internal market law and should thus (not) have been authorised by the European Commission. These cases raise the common issue of the Commission’s duty to assess proposed State aid measures for compliance … Read more
