Summary On 1 October 2023, the European Union’s (EU) Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) entered into the transitional phase, with the first reporting period covering carbon-intense goods imported during the period 1 October 2023 to 31 December 2023, ending on 31 January 2024. CBAM reporting declarants, businesses active in the cement, fertiliser, iron & steel,…
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Security as both a legal and political concept allows the limitation and sometimes even derogation from legal rules; these departures are not absolute and have parameters. Yet, States often invoke security to justify disproportionate and outright illegal acts, which is aided by the fact that the precise contours of what is considered a legitimate security…
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Teresa Freixes (President of Citizens pro Europe and Jean Monnet Professor ad personam) ▪ In recent weeks, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has handed down judgments that shatter the assertion, so dear to some, that law cannot constrain policy. I am referring, essentially, to those that have considered the EU’s agricultural…
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The CMA never clears a merger on the basis of behavioural remedies. Such remedies do not deal with the source of the competition problem, they are susceptible to circumvention, they distort markets, and they are difficult to monitor. Everyone knows that. The CMA was so wedded to this principle that it was willing to die…
Introduction The European Union (EU) and China signed a bilateral agreement for the reciprocal protection of Geographical Indications (GIs) against usurpation and imitation. The agreement strengths the EU-China trading relationship and reinforce the EU (sui generis) approach on GIs in the global market. It took around eight years of negotiations, but in the end, it…
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On March 21, the CJEU published the most recent judgment interpreting provisions of Regulation 261/2004 on air passenger rights in the case Cobult (C-76/23) concerning the possibility of reimbursing passenger’s ticket cost through a voucher. Many of our readers may have experienced a flight cancellation over the past couple of years, not limited to Covid-19-related causes….
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This is a very romantic view of how a nation and/or a State should conduct its business. It is naïve to expect that any nation and/or State would always be a truthful force of good in its interactions with the rest of the world. Financial, economic and geopolitical interests very often influence State narratives. Given…
Police worldwide are joining in with Taylor Swift’s tour craze by swapping friendship bracelets with fans. Could this interaction between police and citizens reshape trust, surveillance and security? Tears, shrieks and meticulously planned outfits: all hallmarks of Taylor Swift’s world-famous Eras Tour. Now in its sixteenth month, the tour has taken on a life of…
The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement is a free trade agreement like no other: the first between parties negotiating from a position of regulatory convergence; the first trade deal in which the EU has accepted the principle of no tariffs and no quotas, but also the first trade deal which not only incorporates provisions that…
Earlier this year, the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) issued an order (Cass., ord. no.11413/2024) in a case concerning the protection by copyright of a lamp design. Part I of this post outlined the decisions issued as the case made its way through the Italian court system. Part II will now turn to the…
