“Green bonds”[1] have seen a steady increase in recent years, with over $500 billion in green bonds issued in 2022. However, there is some debate over whether all of these bonds were issued for activities that were in fact “green”. To prevent “greenwashing”,[2] the EU Commission proposed a new regulation that creates standards for EU…
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In the UK, the ECJ had been called a foreign court in the Brexit debate. However, the term comes from Switzerland. The notion of a foreign court was used to refer to an international court that includes judges from other states. However, this notion is fallacious, argues Carl Baudenbacher (LSE). The decisive factor is whether a court is neutral. If…
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California State Legislature Passes Children’s Privacy Amendments to the CCPA, Pending Governor’s Signature On August 29, 2024, the California State Assembly passed California bill AB-1949, following the bill’s passage in the California State Senate. AB 1949 currently awaits approval by Governor Newsom. If enacted, AB-1949 would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by…
On May 16, the CJEU issued a new judgment on air passenger rights when there is a long flight delay and an airline claims extraordinary circumstances, in the case Touristic Aviation Services (C-405/23). In a given case, the flight was delayed by 3hrs and 49 min between Germany and Greece. The delay was a result…
Summaries of judgments made in collaboration with the Portuguese judge and référendaire of the CJEU (Nuno Piçarra and Sophie Perez) ▪ Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 18 January 2024, Comune di Copertino, Case C-218/22, EU:C:2024:51 Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 2003/88/EC – Article 7 – Article 31(2) of the…
Apple had until 7 March 2024 to adopt the necessary measures to ensure that the terms and conditions it applies to app developers and app users within its mobile ecosystem comply with the app store-related provisions of the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”). These provisions essentially seek to stimulate competition in app distribution and content acquisition…
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Dragoș Călin (Judge at the Bucharest Court of Appeal and Co-President of the Romanian Judges’ Forum Association) ▪ The judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the rule of law and the serious fraud against the financial interests of the European Union appear to have been optional for the Romanian courts,…
Happy 2019! I wish all the readers of this blog a very successful and eventful new year. And to start 2019, nothing better than a post on naughty States and the stellar role recently played by infringement actions before the Court. Who would have thought that the infringement procedure would be close to outmaneuver the…
By Matilda Radoš* The objective of the act is to deal with the legacy of the violent conflict in Northern Ireland that took place between 1 January 1966 and 10 April 1998, known as ‘the Troubles’, which led to the deaths of over 3600 people and the torture of many others. The act provides inter…
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