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Cotton ginning firms' bid for EUR 4.45m compensation dismissed
The General Court has ruled that the actions brought forward by three cotton ginning firms must be dismissed as unfounded, due to the lack of evidence to support their claim that a 2004 CAP support scheme damaged their businesses.
CASELEX:EU:2000:5 - IP Law - protection of industrial and commercial property
A Member State failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 30 of the EC Treaty (now, after amendment, Article 28 EC) when it detained presumably counterfeit goods under customs control on the pretext of protecting the registered design right and copyright of the goods. However, because intra-Community transit did not involve the use of the appearance of the goods’ protected design, the transit did not form part of the specific subject-matter of the protected rights of the goods.
CASELEX:EU:2008:101 - IP Law - Protection of the confidentiality of electronic communications
This reference for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (‘Directive on electronic commerce’) (OJ 2000 L 178, p. 1), Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (OJ 2001 L 167, p. 10), Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (OJ 2004 L 157, p. 45, and corrigendum, OJ 2004 L 195, p. 16), and Articles 17(2) and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union proclaimed in Nice on 7 December 2000 (OJ 2000 C 364, p. 1, ‘the Charter’).
Protected sites can be contested on environmental grounds only
The European Court of Justice has ruled that EU Member States can only refuse to give their agreement to the list of protected sites of Community importance drawn up by the European Commission on environmental grounds, following some ambiguity as to the circumstances surrounding the development of a protected site in Germany.
Enlistment of Community protected sites can only be contested on environmental grounds, EU Court says
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Member States can only refuse to give their agreement to the list of protected sites of Community importance drawn up by the Commission on environmental grounds, following some ambiguity as to the circumstances surrounding the development of a protected site in Germany.
Germany's age law ruled incompatible with EU Directives
The European Court of Justice has ruled that European Union law, more particularly the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of age as given expression by Directive 2000/78, precludes national legislation. As such, a German law which provides that periods of employment completed by an employee before reaching the age of 25 are not taken into account in calculating the notice period for dismissal, was deemed discriminatory and must be dis-applied by the national courts.
Sanctions against the employment of illegally staying non-EU nationals
Directive 2009/52/EC targets the employment of non-EU nationals who are illegally staying in the European Union (EU), in order to counteract illegal immigration. It provides for minimum common standards on sanctions and other measures (disqualification from public benefits, etc.) and, in serious cases, criminal penalties against employers of said nationals.