Thursday, 31 January 2013

Belov (C-394/11) case remains unsolved - CJEU without jurisdiction

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In September last year we commented on the AG Kokott's opinion in the Belov case ( C-394/11 ). The case concerned the lack of access o...

Whatever happens, air passengers need to be cared for - CJEU judgment in McDonagh (C-12/11)

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This morning, the Court of Justice of the EU delivered its judgment in the McDonagh case, which concerned air carriers' obligations t...
Monday, 28 January 2013

A year into the Data Protection reform

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It has been one year since the European Commission announced its plans to reform the EU's 1995 data protection rules with an aim to st...

More than words?

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The review of the Package Travel Directive has been discussed by the European Commission for quite some time now, and it seems that the d...
Friday, 25 January 2013

CESL and Impact Assessment

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In view of coming discussions on the proposed Common European Sales Law Regulation, the European Parliament has requested its Impact Assess...

Football ≠ money - CJEU judgment in Case C-283/11 Sky Österreich v Österreichischer Rundfunk

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This week, the CJEU handed down its preliminary ruling in the Sky Österreich case, concerning the question whether Sky had to grant the A...
Thursday, 24 January 2013

Nationality of food 2

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In our previous post on Nationality of Food we mentioned that BEUC gathered consumers' views on origin labelling of food. The survey...

Insurance mediation

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BEUC published a position paper on the plan of the European Commission to review the Insurance Mediation Directive (IMD). Consumers often...
Monday, 21 January 2013

EU Licence to Drive

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As of this week all European consumers that get a new driving license (or exchange the old one) will receive the same plastic "credit ...

Informal Council

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Last Friday the EU Ministers held an informal council during which they assigned priority to further works on the Data Protection Reform as...