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Amending the Statute of the Court of Justice of the EU: Reform of the preliminary reference procedure
On 24 January 2024, the Committee on Legal Affairs approved the compromise text of a proposal to amend the Statute of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). The reform will transfer preliminary reference cases (Article 267 of the Treaty on Functioning of the European Union – TFEU) from the Court of Justice (CJ) to the General Court (GC) in five distinct areas (VAT; excise duties; the Customs Code and tariff; passengers' rights to compensation and assistance; and the greenhouse gas emissions allowance ...
Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine - a legal assessment
After examining the innovative character of the proposed tribunal, the paper analyses three main interconnected elements linked to the establishment and functioning of the tribunal: the legal basis for its creation; problems of immunity; and questions of enforcement and implementation of its decisions. In the end, taking into account legitimacy considerations which are of crucial importance in this case, the authors evoke two possibilities. A first option would be to ground the tribunal’s creation ...
Replacement of individual Commissioners
On 26 August 2020, Commissioner Phil Hogan tendered his resignation to the President of the European Commission following controversy over his participation in an Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) Golf Society dinner attended by more than 80 people, despite the applicable Irish public health guidelines adopted to contain the spread of Covid-19 limiting gatherings to a fraction of that number. In addition, questions were raised as to whether he had complied with applicable restrictions on movements after ...
Het Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie
Het Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie is een van de zeven instellingen van de EU. Zij omvat twee rechtscolleges: het Hof van Justitie en het Gerecht. Het Hof van Justitie is verantwoordelijk voor de rechtspraak van de Europese Unie. De twee rechtscolleges waarborgen de juiste uitlegging en toepassing van het primaire en het afgeleide recht in de EU. Zij toetsen de wettigheid van de handelingen van de instellingen van de Unie en doen uitspraak over de naleving door de lidstaten van hun verplichtingen ...