EU Law Blog
"This is a web log about European Union law for students, academics, practitioners and anyone else who may be interested in it."
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Recent Posts from EU Law Blog
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Abuse of Dominant Position, Article 82 and New Guidance
At long last, the Commission has made public its "guidance" on its enforcement priorities in Article 82 EC cases. You can find it here. As we pointed out earlier, antitrust boffins have been making quite…
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Urgent Preliminary Reference Procedure, Arrest Warrant and Specialty Rule: Case C-388/08 PPU
The Court of Justice has handed down its third judgment using the urgent preliminary reference procedure. This time, the judgment - handed down in Case C-388/08 PPU Leymann and Pustovarov concerns the European arrest warrant…
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Stem Cells, Patents and Public Policy: Ruling of EBoA on WARF/Thomson application
The European Patent Office's Enlarged Board of Appeal (EPoA) ruled on November 25th 2008 that it is impossible to grant patent protection to a certain stem cell application for reasons of public policy. Back in…
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Lisbon Treaty and Czech Constitutional Court
The Czech Constitutional Court handed down its judgment of November 26th 2008 on whether ratification of the Lisbon Treaty was compatible with the Czech Constitution. The Constitutional Court held that Articles 2 § 1 (before…
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Texts and materials on institutional matters: "Dorie"
The EU institutions - and the Commission in particular - have set up what looks like a useful database of texts and materials on institutional affairs. Here a link to it. The database is given…
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Languages and EU law: Case T-185/05
There's nothing quite as sensitive as the law of languages in EU law. And the judgment of the Court of First Instance in Case T-185/05 Italy v. Commission shows just how sensitive and litigious the…
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Antitrust, Restriction by Object and Agreed Capacity Reductions: Case C-209/07
The Court of Justice has handed down a neat judgment in Case C-209/07 Competition Authority v. Beef Industry Development Society ("BIDS") and Barry Brothers on what constitutes a restriction of competition "by object" within the…
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Citizenship, Grants, Students and Ex-workers: Case C-158/07
Has the Court of Justice halted the inexorable march of rights under the banner of "citizenship" ? Perhaps not. But the recent judgment in Case C-158/07 Jacqueline Förster v. Hoofddirectie van de Informatie Beheer Groep…
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Appointments to the Court of Justice in October 2009
We drew your attention in a post a while ago to a letter sent by the President of the Court of Justice to the President of the Council on judicial reappointments in which he asks…
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State liability, Pharmaceuticals and Marketing Authorization: Case C-452/06
Here's an interesting judgment handed down the other day about the liability of a member State for failure to recongize the marketing authorization for a drug granted pursuant to Directive 2001/83 on the Community code…