Category: European Law

On October 10, 2024, the Council of the European Union (the “Council”) adopted the EU’s new regulation on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements (the “Cyber Resilience Act”). The Cyber Resilience Act regulates cybersecurity issues in the design, development, production, manufacturing, and making available on the market, of hardware and software products that…

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First, it raises questions on whether, even as a ‘non-procurement’ opportunity, this was carried out in a proper way aligned with best practice. An 8-day window to express interest seems very short, especially as potentially interested consultants/consultancies were given very limited information to estimate the scope of works and understand the cost (to them) of…

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What is an “Unterlassungsklage”? If you start a business in Germany, it is hard to avoid being taken to court by a competitor who files a German cease and desist order lawsuit against you in order to tell you what you are allowed to do and what you are not. Why so? Germans have a…

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In my August conflict of laws exams I asked the students the following question: In Case C-494/23 Maha, facts are as follows. On 19 August 2017, applicants purchased a motor vehicle in Germany. On 12 September 2017, the vehicle was seized by the Police of the Czech Republic on the ground that it is the…

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Written by Velina Lilyanova and Alessandro D’Alfonso. The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) recently held a policy roundtable taking stock of the state of play of implementation of Next Generation EU (NGEU) recovery instrument, the largest ever EU financial tool, and its centrepiece, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The panel of distinguished speakers addressed…

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After a Common Understanding, an approval of the Negotiating Mandate by the Swiss governmen (the ‘Mandate’), and a Decision of the Council of the EU authorising the opening of negotiations (the ‘Decision’), the table is set: the EU and Switzerland are looking at a slate of treaties to be concluded and amended, among them the…

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By Elaine, Gersi, Joris and Leonoor The Asylum Crisis  Granted with a new mandate following the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2021/2303 on 19 January 2022, the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has transitioned into a full-fledged agency. Its goal is to improve the functioning of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). As the successor…

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  Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: viewsridge, via Wikimedia commons   Introduction Along with judgments on Afghan women asylum seekers (discussed here) and the status of Turkey as a ‘safe third country’ (discussed here), the Court of Justice of the European Union recently gave its first judgment interpreting the substance…

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Print this article POST 22 OF THE SERIES OF THE ODYSSEUS BLOG ON THE PACT ON MIGRATION & ASYLUM By Boldizsár Nagy, Professor Emeritus at the Department of International Relations, Central European University Long gestation, piecemeal changes It took almost eight years (2016-2024) to adopt the text of the Qualification regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1347 of…

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Editors: Helmut Aust (Freie Universität Berlin) and Ana Salinas (Universidad de Málaga) 1. Message of the President Dear ESIL members, With our successful Vilnius conference now behind us, the academic year is in full swing and most of us are likely settling into a new teaching semester, welcoming new cohorts of students. Autumn is a…

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