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Opinion of Advocate General Tanchev delivered on 17 December 2020.
Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale di Catania v Assessorato della Salute della Regione Siciliana.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – State aid – Agriculture sector – Slaughtering of animals affected by infectious diseases – Compensation for farmers – Notification and standstill requirements – Article 108(3) TFEU – Concepts of ‘existing aid’ and ‘new aid’ – Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 – Exemptions by categories of aid – Regulation (EU) No 702/2014 – De minimis aid – Regulation (EU) No 1408/2013.
Case C-128/19.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:1062

Opinion of Advocate General Szpunar delivered on 17 December 2020.
Mircom International Content Management & Consulting (M.I.C.M.) Limited v Telenet BVBA.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Ondernemingsrechtbank Antwerpen.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Intellectual property – Copyright and related rights – Directive 2001/29/EC – Article 3(1) and (2) – Concept of ‘making available to the public’ – Downloading of a file containing a protected work via a peer-to-peer network and the simultaneous provision for uploading pieces of that file – Directive 2004/48/EC – Article 3(2) – Misuse of measures, procedures and remedies – Article 4 – Persons entitled to apply for the application of measures, procedures and remedies – Article 8 – Right of information – Article 13 – Concept of ‘prejudice’ – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Point (f) of the first subparagraph of Article 6(1) – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Lawfulness of processing – Directive 2002/58/EC – Article 15(1) – Legislative measures to restrict the scope of the rights and obligations – Fundamental rights – Articles 7 and 8, Article 17(2) and the first paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Case C-597/19.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:1063

Opinion of Advocate General Hogan delivered on 17 December 2020.
Repubblika v Il-Prim Ministru.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Qorti Ċivili Prim’Awla - Ġurisdizzjoni Kostituzzjonali.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 2 TEU – Values of the European Union – Rule of law – Article 49 TEU – Accession to the European Union – No reduction in the level of protection of the values of the European Union – Effective judicial protection – Article 19 TEU – Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Scope – Independence of the members of the judiciary of a Member State – Appointments procedure – Power of the Prime Minister – Involvement of a judicial appointments committee.
Case C-896/19.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:1055

Opinion of Advocate General Tanchev delivered on 17 December 2020.
A.B. and Others v Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa and Others.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 2 and the second subparagraph of Article 19(1) TEU – Rule of law – Effective judicial protection – Principle of judicial independence – Procedure for appointment to a position as judge at the Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court, Poland) – Appointment by the President of the Republic of Poland on the basis of a resolution emanating from the National Council of the Judiciary – Lack of independence of that council – Lack of effectiveness of the judicial remedy available against such a resolution – Judgment of the Trybunał Konstytucyjny (Constitutional Court, Poland) repealing the provision on which the referring court’s jurisdiction is based – Adoption of legislation declaring the discontinuance of pending cases by operation of law and precluding in the future any judicial remedy in such cases – Article 267 TFEU – Option and/or obligation for national courts to make a reference for a preliminary ruling and to maintain that reference – Article 4(3) TEU – Principle of sincere cooperation ‐ Primacy of EU law – Power to disapply national provisions which do not comply with EU law.
Case C-824/18.

Court reports – general

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:1053

Opinion of Advocate General Szpunar delivered on 17 December 2020.
Proceedings brought by B.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Satversmes tiesa.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Articles 5, 6 and 10 – National legislation providing for public access to personal data relating to penalty points imposed for road traffic offences – Lawfulness – Concept of ‘personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences’ – Disclosure for the purpose of improving road safety – Right of public access to official documents – Freedom of information – Reconciliation with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and to the protection of personal data – Re-use of data – Article 267 TFEU – Temporal effect of a preliminary ruling – Ability of a constitutional court of a Member State to maintain the legal effects of national legislation incompatible with EU law – Principles of primacy of EU law and of legal certainty.
Case C-439/19.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:1054

Opinion of Advocate General Hogan delivered on 17 December 2020.
European Court of Auditors v Karel Pinxten.
Article 286(6) TFEU – Breach of the obligations arising from the office of Member of the European Court of Auditors – Deprivation of the right to a pension – Right to effective judicial protection – Regularity of the investigation by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) – Internal procedure within the Court of Auditors – Activity incompatible with the duties of a Member of the Court of Auditors – Mission expenses and daily subsistence allowances – Representation and reception expenses – Use of official car – Recourse to the services of a driver – Conflict of interest – Proportionality of the penalty.
Case C-130/19.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:1052

Opinion of Advocate General Tanchev delivered on 17 December 2020.
The Software Incubator Ltd v Computer Associates (UK) Ltd.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Self-employed commercial agents – Directive 86/653/EC – Article 1(2) – Definition of ‘commercial agent’ – Supply of computer software to customers by electronic means – Grant of a perpetual licence for use – Concepts of ‘sale’ and ‘goods’.
Case C-410/19.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:1061

Opinion of Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona delivered on 17 December 2020.
Vereniging van Effectenbezitters v BP plc.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters – Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 – Article 7(2) – Jurisdiction in tort, delict or quasi-delict – Place where the harmful event occurred – Damage consisting in purely financial loss.
Case C-709/19.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:1056

Opinion of Advocate General Tanchev delivered on 10 December 2020.
TR v Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Hamburg.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht Hamburg.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Urgent preliminary ruling procedure – Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters – Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA – European arrest warrant – Article 4a(1) – Surrender procedures between Member States – Conditions for execution – Grounds for optional non-execution – Exceptions – Mandatory execution – Sentence handed down in absentia – Absconding of the accused person – Directive (EU) 2016/343 – Articles 8 and 9 – Right to be present at the trial – Requirements in the event of a conviction in absentia – Verification upon surrender of the person sentenced.
Case C-416/20 PPU.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:1020

Opinion of Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe delivered on 10 December 2020.
Granarolo SpA v Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare and Others.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per il Lazio.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Environment – Directive 2003/87/EC – Greenhouse gas emission allowance trading scheme – Article 3(e) – Concept of ‘installation’ – Article 3(f) – Concept of ‘operator’ – Points 2 and 3 of Annex I – Aggregation rule – Aggregation of the capacities of the activities in an installation – Transfer of an electricity and heat cogeneration unit by the owner of an industrial facility – Contract for the supply of energy between the transferor and transferee undertakings – Updating of the greenhouse gas emissions permit.
Case C-617/19.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:1016