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631 ingested reports from European Union in 2010. Walk years back as far as this source still publishes.

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0310decided

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Mengozzi delivered on 22 December 2010.#Ministre du Budget, des Comptes publics et de la Fonction publique v Accor SA.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Conseil d'État - France.#Free movement of capital - Tax treatment of dividends - National rules conferring a tax credit in respect of dividends distributed by resident subsidiaries of parent companies - Refusal to grant a tax credit in respect of dividends distributed by non-resident subsidiaries - Redistribution of dividends by the parent company to its shareholders - Setting off the tax credit against the advance payment payable by the parent company at the time of redistribution - Refusal to reimburse the advance payment made by the parent company - Unjust enrichment - Evidence required regarding the taxation of non-resident subsidiaries.#Case C-310/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 22 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62008CC0279decided

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Mengozzi delivered on 22 December 2010.#European Commission v Kingdom of the Netherlands.#Appeal - State aid - Article 87(1) EC - Emission trading scheme for nitrogen oxides - Classification of the national measure as State aid - Decision declaring aid to be compatible with the common market - Concept of selectivity - Advantage financed through State resources - Protection of the environment - Obligation to state the reasons for decision - Admissibility.#Case C-279/08 P.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 22 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0540decided

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Jääskinen delivered on 16 December 2010.#Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB Momsgrupp v Skatteverket.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Regeringsrätten - Sweden.#Reference for a preliminary ruling - Sixth VAT Directive - Article 13B(d)(5) - Exemptions - Underwriting guarantee provided against payment of a commission by credit institutions to the issuing companies in respect of a share issue on the capital markets - Transactions in securities.#Case C-540/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62010CC0029decided

Opinion of Advocate General Trstenjak delivered on 16 December 2010.#Heiko Koelzsch v État du Grand Duchy of Luxemburg.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Cour d'appel - Luxembourg.#Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations - Contract of employment - Choice made by the parties - Mandatory rules of the law applicable in the absence of choice - Determination of that law - Notion of the country in which the employee ‘habitually carries out his work’ - Employee carrying out his work in more than one Contracting State.#Case C-29/10.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0360decided

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Mazák delivered on 16 December 2010.#Pfleiderer AG v Bundeskartellamt.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Amtsgericht Bonn - Germany.#Competition - Administrative procedure - Documents and information provided under a national leniency programme - Possible negative effects of third-party access to such documents on the effectiveness and proper functioning of cooperation between the authorities forming the European Competition Network.#Case C-360/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0071decided

Opinion of Advocate General Trstenjak delivered on 16 December 2010.#Comitato «Venezia vuole vivere» (C-71/09 P), Hotel Cipriani Srl (C-73/09 P) and Società Italiana per il gas SpA (Italgas) (C-76/09 P) v European Commission.#Appeals - Actions for annulment - Admissibility - Locus standi - Interest in bringing an action - Objection of lis alibi pendens - State aid - Multisectoral aid scheme - Reductions in social security contributions - Decision 2000/394/EC - Compensatory nature - Whether intra-Community trade affected - Impact on competition - Extent of control - Burden of proof - Duty to state reasons - Article 87(2)(b) and (3)(b) to (d) EC - Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 - Articles 14 and 15.#Joined cases C-71/09 P, C-73/09 P and C-76/09 P.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0165decided

Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 16 December 2010.#Stichting Natuur en Milieu and Others v College van Gedeputeerde Staten van Groningen (C-165/09) and College van Gedeputeerde Staten van Zuid-Holland (C-166/09 and C-167/09).#References for a preliminary ruling: Raad van State - Netherlands.#Environment - Directive 2008/1/EC - Permit for the construction and operation of a power station - Directive 2001/81/EC - National emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants - Power of the Member States during the transitional period - Direct effect.#Joined cases C-165/09 to C-167/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0176decided

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Mengozzi delivered on 16 December 2010.#Grand Duchy of Luxemburg v European Parliament and Council of the European Union.#Action for annulment - Directive 2009/12/EC - Airport charges - Scope - Airports whose annual traffic is over 5 million passenger movements per year and those with the highest passenger movements in each Member State - Validity - Principles of equal treatment, proportionality and subsidiarity.#Case C-176/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0115decided

Opinion of Advocate General Sharpston delivered on 16 December 2010.#Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen eV v Bezirksregierung Arnsberg.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: l’Oberverwaltungsgericht für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen - Germany.#Directive 85/337/EEC - Environmental impact assessment - Aarhus Convention - Directive 2003/35/EC - Access to justice - Non-governmental organisations for the protection of the environment.#Case C-115/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0391decided

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Jääskinen delivered on 16 December 2010.#Malgožata Runevič-Vardyn and Łukasz Paweł Wardyn v Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės administracija and Others.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Vilniaus miesto 1 apylinkės teismas - Lithuania.#Citizenship of the Union - Freedom to move and reside in the Member States - Principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality - Articles 18 TFEU and 21 TFEU - Principle of equal treatment of persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin - Directive 2000/43/EC - National rules requiring that the surnames and forenames of natural persons must be entered on certificates of civil status in a form which complies with the rules governing the spelling of the official national language.#Case C-391/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0028decided

Opinion of Advocate General Trstenjak delivered on 16 December 2010.#European Commission v Republic of Austria.#Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Articles 28 EC and 29 EC - Free movement of goods - Measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions on imports and exports - Transport - Directives 96/62/EC and 1999/30/EC - Sectoral traffic prohibition for lorries of over 7.5 tonnes carrying certain goods - Air quality - Protection of health and the environment - Principle of proportionality - Consistency.#Case C-28/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62010CC0078decided

Opinion of Advocate General Trstenjak delivered on 16 December 2010.#Marc Berel and Others v Administration des douanes de Rouen and Others.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Cour d’appel de Rouen - France.#Community Customs Code - Articles 213, 233 and 239 - Joint and several liability of several debtors for the same customs debt - Remission of import duties - Extinction of the customs debt - No possibility for a jointly and severally liable debtor to rely on a remission granted to another debtor.#Case C-78/10.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0196decided

Opinion of Advocate General Sharpston delivered on 16 December 2010.#Paul Miles and Others v Écoles européennes.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Chambre de recours des écoles européennes.#Reference for a preliminary ruling - Concept of ‘court or tribunal of a Member State’ within the meaning of Article 267 TFEU - Complaints Board of the European Schools - System of remuneration of teachers seconded to the European Schools - No adjustment of remuneration following depreciation in sterling - Compatibility with Articles 18 TFEU and 45 TFEU.#Case C-196/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0384decided

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Cruz Villalón delivered on 9 December 2010.#Prunus SARL and Polonium SA v Directeur des services fiscaux.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunal de grande instance de Paris - France.#Direct taxation - Free movement of capital - Article 64 TFEU - Legal persons established in a non-Member State - Ownership of immovable property located in a Member State - Tax on the market value of that property - Refusal of exemption - Assessment with regard to overseas countries and territories - Combating tax evasion - Joint and several liability.#Case C-384/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 9 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0450decided

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Bot delivered on 9 December 2010.#Ulrich Schröder v Finanzamt Hameln.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Niedersächsisches Finanzgericht - Germany.#Free movement of capital - Direct taxation - Taxation of income from the letting of immovable property - Deductibility of annuities paid to a relative in the context of an anticipated succession inter vivos - Condition of being subject to unlimited tax liability in the Member State at issue.#Case C-450/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 9 December 2010

Report· CCCELEX 62009CC0324decided

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Jääskinen delivered on 9 December 2010.#L’Oréal SA and Others v eBay International AG and Others.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Chancery Division - United Kingdom.#Trade marks - Internet - Offer for sale, on an online marketplace targeted at consumers in the European Union, of trade-marked goods intended, by the proprietor, for sale in third States - Removal of the packaging of the goods - Directive 89/104/EEC - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Liability of the online-marketplace operator - Directive 2000/31/EC (‘Directive on electronic commerce’) - Injunctions against that operator - Directive 2004/48/EC (‘Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights’).#Case C-324/09.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 9 December 2010

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