Judgment of 21 November 2018 in Case C-29/17 Novartis Farma SpA / Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA) e.a. The EU Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that under Articles 3 and 6 of Directive 2001/83 relating to medicinal products for human use and Articles 3, 25 and 26 of EU Regulation n° 726 / 2004 […]
Judgment of the GCEU, 9th Chamber, 26 November 2018 (Case T-458/17), Harry Shindler e.a. v / Council of the European Union The General Court of the European Union (GCEU) ruled that British citizens residing in other Member States than the United Kingdom are not entitled to seek the annulment of the decision of the Council of the European Union to start EU exit negotiations following the Brexit referendum because that decision does not produce […]
European Commission, Press Release, ‘EU and Mexico conclude negotiations for new trade agreement’ 28 April 2020 The negotiation phase of the new trade agreement between the European Union and Mexico was concluded by the Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan and the Mexican Minister of Economy Graciela Márquez Colín. Mexico is an important trade partner for the […]
Joined cases C‑101/19 and C‑102/19 (Deutsche Homöopathie-Union (DHU) Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG v Bundesrepublik Deutschland) Judgement of the Eighth Chamber 23 April 2020 The Court of Justice of the European Union prohibited the inclusion of additional information in the package leaflet of medicinal products other than that listed in Article 69 of Directive 2001/83/EC […]
C‑650/17 (Royalty Pharma Collection Trust v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt) Judgement of the Fourth Chamber 30 April 2020 The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that, in order to obtain a supplementary protection certificate, a medicinal product is only required to meet a general functional definition used by one of the claims of […]
Draft law of 8 February 2018 approving the amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer, adopted in Kigali on 15 October 2016: text adopted was completed and submitted to Royal Assent. The amendment will come out in full effect. This amendment is a legally binding agreement creating rights and obligations […]
DOC 54 2828/001: Draft Law Reforming Company Law (7 December 2017), Belgian House of Representatives This project aims to improve the coherence of the notion of company and to avoid the problems related to the present notion. This new definition will use formal criteria instead of the material one. Modernization of company law and a […]
C-463/13 – Stanley International Betting et Stanleybet Malta c Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze , 22 January 2015 The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Italian legislation that provides a new reform for tender offers proposing gambling and betting licences with stringent conditions to avoid the exclusion of some operators and fight against […]
C-317/14 – Commission v Kingdom of Belgium, 5 February 2015 The European Court of Justice has ruled that Belgian Law which requires from candidates to local administration jobs who cannot prove that they were educated in the language concerned by the job, to obtain a certificate delivered by a Belgian body, infringes the EU […]
