Guest post by Laura Bakola (PhD candidate at Leiden University) In September the CJEU issued a judgment on price indications and the obligation of the trader to announce a price reduction on the basis of the ‘prior price’ of the product. The case comes after the amendment introduced by Directive 2019/2161, as regards the better…
The Backstop(s) The initial EU proposal included in the first draft Withdrawal Agreement provided that Northern Ireland would remain within the EU customs territory. Of course, remaining in the EU customs territory and in parts of the single market while the rest of the UK was out of those structures is anathema to many, not least the DUP….
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While the EU remains committed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, for the rest of the world they’re simply unrealistic. Can the EU balance sustainable growth with environmental, social and labour rights through trade deals that are driven by corporate social responsibility? As early as 2007, the EU cited its commitment to ‘peace, security, the…
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The UK might have left the European Union on 31 January 2020, but it has not left its gravitational field, nor will it in 2021. The challenge for all sides is somehow to stabilise British exceptionalism outside the EU’s legal order, writes Martin Westlake (LSE/College of Europe). Those on the ‘remain’ side of the Brexit argument,…
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Image by M. H. from Pixabay In the first part of this post on the Kneschke vs. LAION decision by the German Hamburg Regional Court (“Court”), we explored the Court’s key findings regarding the operational step in a generative AI model, and the decision on the exceptions for scientific research text and data mining (“TDM”)…
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On October 2, 2024, the EU General Court delivered a much-anticipated decision in the long‑running Micula saga, upholding the European Commission’s qualification of the award in Ioan Micula, Viorel Micula, S.C. European Food S.A, S.C. Starmill S.R.L. and S.C. Multipack S.R.L. v. Romania [I] as State aid. Coming after more than 10 years of litigation…
By Niamh McCormack, pre-PhD candidate, Leiden University School of Law; research assistant, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. On 9th September 2020, relations between the European Union (‘EU) and the United Kingdom (‘UK’) reached their lowest point since the UK’s 2016 decision to withdraw from the EU (‘Brexit’). This was precipitated by the UK government’s…
HHS Announces Additional Settlements Following Ransomware Attacks Including First Enforcement Under Risk Analysis Initiative On October 31, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a resolution agreement and corrective action plan with Plastic Surgery Associates of South Dakota in Sioux Falls (“PSASD”) stemming from the organization’s…
By falling just short of mandating a complete ban on access to EU procurement by third-country economic operators not covered by international agreements, in Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret (C-652/22) (‘Kolin’), the Court of Justice has suddenly crystallised a change in EU procurement-related trade policy. Kolin will have many, and potentially quite problematic, practical…
I know I have Tweeted that I would add my tuppence on the Court of Appeal at The Hague on Wednesday reversing (English translation of the Court of Appeal here) the first instance judgment in Milieudefensie v Shell. That judgment had imposed CO2 reduction emissions targets on Shell. (In my post on the first instance…
