Thursday, 21 October 2021

Reflecting on EU (package) travel law in 2021: travel platforms in a regulatory blind spot?

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The EU legislature has been pushing for the harmonisation of consumer protection in the travel sector for several decades now. The entire pr...
Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Rights of third party guarantors in payment services transactions - the CJEU in C-337/20 CRCAM

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Last month the CJEU delivered another judgment on the interpretation of payment services rules. Case C-337/20 DM, LR v Casisse régionale de ...
Monday, 18 October 2021

Where will the courts 'catch' mobile consumers?

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As part of our effort to look back to last year and cover any cases that we might have missed at the height of the pandemic, the CJEU's ...
Saturday, 16 October 2021

AG Saugmandsgaard Øe in EL and TP v Caixabank (C-385/20): Spanish restrictions on reimbursement of lawyer fees not against effectiveness

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For those who have missed updates on impossibly complicated fact-rule patterns in UCTD adjudication, this month has offered a nice pick-me-u...

Energy price spike: Commission announces toolbox including consumer alleviation measures

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Europe – like most of the world – sits in the middle of an  energy crunch . Natural gas prices have gone up in the three digits (!) since 20...
Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Reproducing copyright works in the cloud - do we need a new copyright levy?

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Should authors and artists receive appropriate compensation when we store their works on a virtual disk such as a cloud? This question will ...
Sunday, 10 October 2021

The long arm of Regulation 261/2004 - AG Saugmandsgaard Øe in Airhelp (C-451/20)

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On October 6 also AG Saugmandsgaard Øe issued his opinion in another case pertaining to the interpretation of the provisions of Regulation 2...

Strikes may spread, that's not extraordinary - CJEU in Eurowings (C-613/20)

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Last week the CJEU confirmed again the strict and narrow interpretation of a 'strike' as an extraordinary circumstance that would al...
Monday, 4 October 2021

EDPB creates cookie banner taskforce

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Last week European Data Protection Board (EDPB), which is a body that represents European data protection authorities (DPAs), decided to est...
Friday, 24 September 2021

(No)Flight flurry - 3 opinions of AG Pikamäe on Regulation 261/2004

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Yesterday, AG Priit Pikam äe issued three opinions related to the interpretation of various provisions of Regulation 261/2004 on air passeng...