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More on the Commission’s duty to assess State aid measures’ compatibility with EU procurement law — AG Medina Opinion in Paks II (C-59/23 P) — How to Crack a Nut – Go Health Pro

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More on the Commission’s duty to assess State aid measures’ compatibility with EU procurement law — AG Medina Opinion in Paks II (C-59/23 P) — How to Crack a Nut – Go Health Pro

The extent and limits to the Commission’s duty to assess the compatibility of State aid measures with other rules of EU internal market law, and public procurement rules in particular, continues to heat up (see earlier comment here). According to the Court’s press release, today’s Opinion of AG Medina in Austria v Commission (Centrale nucléaire … Read more

Monitoring migrants’ human rights at the EU borders: EU law v the UN OPCAT? – Go Health Pro

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Monitoring migrants’ human rights at the EU borders: EU law v the UN OPCAT? – Go Health Pro

The present contribution provides some preliminary considerations concerning the compatibility between the EU independent national mechanisms (INMs) to be set up under EU regulation 2024/1356 and the National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs) set up under the 2002 UN Optional Protocol for the Prevention of Torture. Should existing NPMs be tasked with the EU monitoring mandate envisaged … Read more

Recent developments in European Consumer Law: “Initial commitment period” of two years in phone subscriptions – Go Health Pro

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 Many readers will have had the experience – signing up for a new mobile (phone) contract and opting for the 2-year commitment in order to obtain the best terms, and then again starting a new contract with the same provider when a new and more attractive offer comes about. What happens then with the remaining … Read more

Owusu rules. CJEU confirms absence in principle of reflexive effect of Brussels Ia’s exclusive jurisdictional rules in BSH Hausgeräte. – gavc law – geert van calster – Go Health Pro

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Owusu rules. CJEU confirms absence in principle of reflexive effect of Brussels Ia’s exclusive jurisdictional rules in BSH Hausgeräte. – gavc law – geert van calster – Go Health Pro

The CJEU confirmed this morning in C‑339/22 BSH Hausgeräte GmbH v Electrolux AB (no language versions other than French and Swedish at the time of posting) that in principle Brussels Ia’s exclusive jurisdictional rule for registered intellectual property rights (A24(4) has no reflexive effect. [I suggest below that the reasoning extends to all of A24). … Read more

EU Law Analysis: The Italy/Albania asylum treaty reaches the CJEU: what are the issues? – Go Health Pro

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EU Law Analysis: The Italy/Albania asylum treaty reaches the CJEU: what are the issues? – Go Health Pro

  Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Pudelek, via Wikimedia Commons   Is the Italy/Albania deal on housing asylum-seekers a model of the future, to be emulated by the rest of the EU, and the UK – or is it destined to be an expensive failure, like the UK’s Rwanda policy? … Read more

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