23/07- 29/07

Wednesday 25 July

Washington (USA). European Commission. European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, visits United States president, Donald Trump.
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper II.
Luxembourg. * European Court of Justice. #Rulings: - combined cases C-84/17 P (Société des produits Nestlé/Mondelez UK Holdings & Services); C-85/17 P (Mondelez UK Holdings & Services/EUIPO) and C-95/17 P (EUIPO/Mondelez UK Holdings & Services – Registration by Nestlé of the three-dimension shape of the ‘four-bar Kit Kat’ product as a European trademark. - C-528/16 (Confédération Paysanne et al – Are bodies obtained by mutagenesis subject to the obligations laid down in the GMO directive?). – C-632/16 (Dyson – Is the fact that a manufacturer failed to inform consumers about information on the testing conditions that led to a classification provided on the label a misleading omission?). – C-205/17 (Commission/Spain – Possible levying of fines on Spain for delays in implementing urban waste water directive). – C 128/16 P (Commission/Spain et al – Appeal against General Court ruling cancelling Commission’s decision to consider as unlawful aid the Spanish fiscal leasing system). – C-96/17 (Vernaza Ayovi – Can workers on a limited contract for the Spanish public administration benefit from the guarantee of getting their job back if they are unlawfully dismissed?). – C-216/18 PPU (Minister for Justice and Equality – Possibility for a member state to refuse to implement a European arrest warrant issued by Poland on the grounds that the recent reform of the Polish legal system would deprive the individual of his or her right to a fair trial). – C-268/17 (AY – Are member states’ judicial authorities required to issue a decision on every European arrest warrant they are sent?). – C-585/16 (Alheto – May a Palestinian woman granted refugee status by UNRWA obtain refugee status under EU law?). – C-220/18 PPU (Generalstattsanwatschaft – Scope of controls that must be carried out by the authority responsible for implementing a European arrest warrant to ensure that that the person concerned would not be exposed to inhumane or degrading treatment in the event of detention in the member state that issued the warrant, in this case, Hungary). – C-129/17 (Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha and Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift Europe – Possibility for an importer wanting to sell a product for the first time in the EEA to withdraw the original trademark and replace it with its own trademark. #Conclusions: - C-310/17 (Levola Hengelo – Can the flavour of a food product be protected by copyright?). – C-416/17 (Commission/France – Misunderstanding by France of a Court ruling by maintaining, via Conseil d’État case law discriminatory and disproportionate treatment of French parent companies receiving dividends from French subsidiaries and those receiving dividends from foreign subsidiaries). – C-56/17 (Fathi – Assessment criteria for a request for international protection based on the risk of persecution on religious grounds). – C-247/17 Raugevicius – Does Finland have to grant an extradition request from Russia for a bi-national Russian-Lithuanian for the implementation of a criminal conviction issued in Russia?). – C-452/17 – In order to be defined as such, do independent commercial agents have to work in an itinerant manner and not do any work other than that of negotiating and concluding sales or purchase operations?). – C-193/17 (Cresco Investigation – A national law granting a day’s holiday only for workers of certain religions and which foresees extra pay if a person of that religion works on that particular day discriminatory?). – C-621/16 P (Commission/Italy – Appeal against annulment by the General Court of two EPSCO competitions on the grounds that EPSCO did not properly justify the limiting of the second language of the competition to German English and French).