Thursday, 26 September 2013

How to say 'I like you' in 24 languages, and why a European consumer lawyer might care

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Today, 26th September, the European Day of Languages is celebrated.  The initiative was launched in 2001 by the Council of Europe and the E...

Slow train - CJEU judgment in Case C-509/11 ÖBB-Personenverkehr

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Today, the Court of Justice of the EU delivered its judgment in Case C-509/11 ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG . The case concerned the general term...
Monday, 23 September 2013

Equal property rights for registered partners and married couples

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Another vote took place this month at the European Parliament with regard to new matrimonial property rules for international couples. ( Si...

More support of public access to clinical trials data

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A short update to our posts (last one: Who's keeping the score?... ) on the dispute between the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and two...
Friday, 20 September 2013

Origin labelling

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In 2011 the European institutions adopted the Regulation 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers. The new rules on f...

Hazardous resolution

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On 10th of September the European Parliament adopted a resolution " Online gambling in the internal market " calling upon the Eur...
Thursday, 19 September 2013

Diligence cannot undo unfairness - CJEU judgment in Case C-435/11 CHS Tour Services

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This morning, the Court of Justice of the EU handed down its judgment in the CHS Tour Services  case. For a summary of the facts of the cas...
Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Capita Civilologie

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Today at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht a promotion of the book " Capita Civilologie. Handboek empirie en privaatrecht " took plac...

Legal highs

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Yesterday the European Commission presented a new package proposal with respect to regulating 'legal highs' (new psychoactive subst...

Bad MEPs

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As Chantal mentioned already, the European Parliament's JURI Committee approved of the CESL's proposal yesterday. BEUC's reacti...