ISSN 1977-091X

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 79

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Information and Notices

Volume 64
8 March 2021

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IV   Notices

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES

Court of Justice of the European Union

2021/C 79/01

Last publications of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Official Journal of the European Union

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V   Announcements

COURT PROCEEDINGS

Court of Justice

2021/C 79/02

Case C-471/18 P: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 21 January 2021 — Federal Republic of Germany v Esso Raffinage, European Chemicals Agency, French Republic, Kingdom of the Netherlands (Appeal — Registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals — Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH) — Articles 5 and 6 — General obligation to register substances — Articles 41 and 42 — Evaluation of registration dossiers and compliance check of information submitted by registrants — Declaration of non-compliance — Actionable measure — Interest in bringing proceedings — Locus standi — Respective competences of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and national authorities — Obligation on ECHA to check the compliance of additional information submitted by registrants at its request — ECHA’s power to take an appropriate decision — Article 1 — Objective of protecting human health and the environment — Articles 13 and 25 — Use of animal testing — Promotion of alternative methods)

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2021/C 79/03

Case C-761/18 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 January 2021 — Päivi Leino-Sandberg v European Parliament (Appeal — Access to documents of the EU institutions — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Article 10 — Refusal to grant access — Action before the General Court of the European Union against a decision by the European Parliament refusing to grant access to a document — Disclosure of the annotated document by a third party after the action was lodged — Order that there was no need to adjudicate pronounced by the General Court on the ground that was no longer any interest in bringing proceedings — Error of law)

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2021/C 79/04

Case C-255/19: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 20 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) London, United Kingdom) — Secretary of State for the Home Department v OA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2004/83/EC — Minimum standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status — Refugee status — Article 2(c) — Cessation of refugee status — Article 11 — Change in circumstances — Article 11(1)(e) — Possibility of availing oneself of the protection of the country of origin — Criteria for assessment — Article 7(2) — Financial and social support — Irrelevant)

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2021/C 79/05

Case C-288/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 20 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht des Saarlandes — Germany) — QM v Finanzamt Saarbrücken (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Taxation — Value added tax (VAT) — Directive 2006/112/EC — Article 2(1)(c) — Supplies of services for consideration — Article 26(1) — Transactions treated as supplies of services for consideration — Article 56(2) — Determination of the point of reference for tax purposes — Hiring of means of transport — Making cars available to employees)

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2021/C 79/06

Case C-301/19 P: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 20 January 2021 — European Commission v Printeos SA (Appeal — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Decision finding infringement of Article 101 TFEU — Fines — Annulment — Repayment of the principal amount of the fine — Article 266 TFEU — Default interest — Distinction between default interest and compensatory interest — Calculation of interest — Article 90(4)(a), second sentence, of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1268/2012)

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2021/C 79/07

Case C-308/19: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 21 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Înalta Curte de Casaţie şi Justiţie — Romania) — Consiliul Concurenţei v Whiteland Import Export SRL (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Competition — Penalties imposed by the national competition authority — Limitation period — Actions interrupting the limitation period — National legislation precluding, after the initiation of an investigation, the possibility that subsequent action for the purpose of proceedings or investigation may interrupt the new limitation period — Principle that national law must be interpreted in conformity with EU law — Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 — Article 25(3) — Scope — Article 4(3) TEU — Article 101 TFEU — Principle of effectiveness)

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2021/C 79/08

Case C-387/19: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 14 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — Belgium) — RTS infra BVBA, Aannemingsbedrijf Norré-Behaegel BVBA v Vlaams Gewest (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Public procurement contracts — Directive 2014/24/EU — Article 57(6) — Optional grounds for exclusion — Measures taken by the economic operator to demonstrate its reliability despite the existence of an optional ground for exclusion — Obligation of the economic operator to provide evidence of such measures on its own initiative — Direct effect)

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2021/C 79/09

Case C-393/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 14 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Apelativen sad — Plovdiv — Bulgaria) — Criminal proceedings against OM (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Right to property — Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights — Right to an effective remedy — Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA — Confiscation of crime-related proceeds, instrumentalities and property — Directive 2014/42/EU — Freezing and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of crime in the European Union — National legislation providing for the confiscation, for the benefit of the State, of property used to commit the offence of smuggling — Property belonging to a third party acting in good faith)

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2021/C 79/10

Case C-420/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 20 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Riigikohus — Estonia) — Maksu- ja Tolliamet v Heavyinstall OÜ (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2010/24/EU — Article 16 — Recovery of claims relating to taxes, duties and other measures — Mutual assistance — Request for precautionary measures — Judicial decision of the applicant Member State for the purpose of implementing precautionary measures — Jurisdiction of the court of the requested Member State to assess and reassess the justification of those measures — Principles of mutual trust and of mutual recognition)

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2021/C 79/11

Case C-441/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 14 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Den Haag, zittingsplaats’s-Hertogenbosch — Netherlands) — TQ v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Directive 2008/115/EC — Common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals — Article 5(a), Article 6(1) and (4), Article 8(1) and Article 10 — Return decision issued against an unaccompanied minor — Best interests of the child — Obligation for the Member State concerned to be satisfied, before the adoption of a return decision, that that minor will be returned to a member of his or her family, a nominated guardian or adequate reception facilities in the State of return — Distinction on the basis solely of the criterion of the age of the minor in order to grant a right of residence — Return decision not followed by removal measures)

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2021/C 79/12

Case C-450/19: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 14 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus — Finland) — Proceedings initiated by Kilpailu- ja kuluttajavirasto (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Competition — Article 101 TFEU — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Manipulation of the bidding procedure — Determination of the duration of the infringement period — Inclusion of the period during which the cartel members implemented the anticompetitive agreement — Economic effects of anticompetitive behaviour — Cessation of the infringement on the definitive award of the contract)

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2021/C 79/13

Case C-484/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 20 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen — Sweden) — Lexel AB v Skatteverket (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 49 TFEU — Freedom of establishment — Corporation tax — Taxation of associated companies — National tax legislation prohibiting a company which is established in one Member State from deducting interest paid to a company established in another Member State, belonging to the same group of companies, in the case where a substantial tax benefit is gained)

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2021/C 79/14

Case C-501/19: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 21 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Înalta Curte de Casaţie şi Justiţie — Romania) — UCMR — ADA Asociaţia pentru Drepturi de Autor a Compozitorilor v Asociația Culturală ‘Suflet de Român’, represented by its liquidator, Pro Management Insolv IPURL (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Taxation — Value added tax (VAT) — Directive 2006/112/EC — Article 2(1)(c), Article 24(1) and Article 25(a) — Taxable transactions — Fees for the public performance of musical works — Article 28 — Collective copyright management organisation — Collection of those fees in its own name and on behalf of copyright holders from end users)

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2021/C 79/15

Case C-619/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 20 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Land Baden-Württemberg v D.R. (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Aarhus Convention — Directive 2003/4/EC — Public access to environmental information — ‘Stuttgart 21’ infrastructure project — Refusal of a request for environmental information — Article 4(1) — Grounds for refusal — Term ‘internal communications’ — Scope — Limitation in time of the protection of such communications)

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2021/C 79/16

Case C-655/19: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 20 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Alba Iulia — Romania) — Administraţia Judeţeană a Finanţelor Publice Sibiu, Direcția Generală Regională a Finanțelor Publice Brașov (DGRFP) v LN (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Taxation — Value added tax (VAT) — Directive 2006/112/EC — Article 2 — Article 9 — Concepts of ‘economic activity’ and ‘taxable person’ — Transactions which seek to obtain income from goods on a continuing basis — Acquisition by a creditor of immovable property in the context of an enforcement procedure carried out for the purpose of the recovery of loans secured by mortgage guarantees and the sale of those buildings — Simple exercise of right of ownership by its holder)

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2021/C 79/17

Case C-744/19: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 14 January 2021 — European Commission v Italian Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2013/59/Euratom — Basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation — Article 106 — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

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2021/C 79/18

Case C-843/19: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 21 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Cataluña — Spain) — Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social (INSS) v BT (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security — Directive 79/7/EEC — Article 4(1) — Voluntary early retirement — Early retirement pension — Eligibility — Requirement for the pension amount to be received to be at least as much as the legal minimum amount — Proportion of workers of each sex excluded from the benefit of early retirement — Justification of a potential particular disadvantage to female workers — Social policy objectives of the Member State concerned)

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2021/C 79/19

Joined Cases C-67/20 to C-69/20: Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 3 December 2020 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Cour du travail de Liège — Belgium) — Agence fédérale pour l’Accueil des demandeurs d’asile (Fedasil) v Mr M. (C-67/20), Ms C. (C-68/20), Ms C. (C-69/20) (Reference for a preliminary ruling — No need to adjudicate)

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2021/C 79/20

Case C-99/20: Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 3 December 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Alba Iulia — Romania) — Siebenburgisches Nugat SRL v Direcţia Generală Regională a Finanţelor Publice Braşov, Agenţia Naţională de Administrare Fiscală — Direcţia Generală a Vămilor — Direcţia Regională Vamală Braşov — Biroul Vamal de Interior Sibiu (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Customs union — Common customs tariff — Combined nomenclature — Tariff headings — Subheading 8302 41 30 — Metal rail components for hanging curtains)

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2021/C 79/21

Case C-220/20: Order of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 10 December 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Ufficio del Giudice di Pace di Lanciano — Italy) — XX v OO (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 53(2) and Article 94 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — State of national health emergency — Continuity of judicial activity — Postponement of hearings — Lack of sufficient details concerning the factual and regulatory context of the main proceedings and the reasons justifying the need for an answer to the reference for a preliminary ruling — Manifest inadmissibility)

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2021/C 79/22

Case C-318/20: Order of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 26 November 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Colt Technology Services SpA, Wind Tre SpA, Telecom Italia SpA, Voidafone Italia SpA, Ministero della Giustizia, Ministero dello Sviluppo economico, Ministero dell’economia e delle finanze v Ministero della Giustizia, Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Ministero dell’economia e delle finanze, Wind Tre SpA, Procura generale della Repubblica presso la Corte d’appello di Reggio Calabria, Procura della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Cagliari, Procura della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Roma, Procura della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Locri (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality — National legislation on pricing of interception activities ordered by judicial authorities — Failure to take into account the principle of full reimbursement of the costs of telecommunications operators — Article 53(2) and Article 94 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Lack of sufficient details concerning the factual and regulatory framework of the main proceedings and the reasons justifying the need to reply to the questions referred for a preliminary ruling — Manifest inadmissibility)

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2021/C 79/23

Case C-293/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Oberösterreich (Austria) lodged on 1 July 2020 — A, M v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Kirchdorf

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2021/C 79/24

Case C-625/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Social n.o 26 de Barcelona (Spain) lodged on 19 November 2020 — KM v Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social (INSS)

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2021/C 79/25

Case C-642/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Giustizia Amministrativa per la Regione Siciliana (Italy) lodged on 27 November 2020 — Caruter s.r.l. v S.R.R. Messina Provincia S.c.P.A., Comune di Basicò, Comune di Falcone, Comune di Fondachelli Fantina, Comune di Gioiosa Marea, Comune di Librizzi, Comune di Mazzarrà Sant’Andrea, Comune di Montagnareale, Comune di Oliveri, Comune di Piraino, Comune di San Piero Patti, Regione Siciliana — Urega — Ufficio regionale espletamento gare d’appalti lavori pubblici Messina, Regione Siciliana — Assessorato regionale delle infrastrutture e della mobilità

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2021/C 79/26

Case C-654/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Apelativen sad — Sofia (Bulgaria) lodged on 15 November 2020 — Criminal proceedings against VD

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2021/C 79/27

Case C-671/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie (Poland) lodged on 9 December 2020 — Criminal proceedings against M.M.

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2021/C 79/28

Case C-680/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato (Italy) lodged on 15 December 2020 — Unilever Italia Mkt. Operations Srl v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato

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2021/C 79/29

Case C-702/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākā tiesa (Senāts) (Latvia) lodged on 22 December 2020 — SIA DOBELES HES v Sabiedrisko pakalpojumu regulēšanas komisija, Ekonomikas ministrija, Finanšu ministrija

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2021/C 79/30

Case C-719/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato (Italy) lodged on 30 December 2020 — Comune di Lerici v Provincia di La Spezia

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2021/C 79/31

Case C-724/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) lodged on 28 December 2020 — Paget Approbois SAS v Depeyre entreprises SARL, Alpha Insurance A/S and Alpha Insurance A/S v Paget Approbois SAS, Depeyre entreprises SARL

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2021/C 79/32

Case C-726/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (Belgium) lodged on 29 December 2020 — CT, Ferme de la Sarte SPRL v Région wallonne

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2021/C 79/33

Case C-4/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 4 January 2021 — Fédération des entreprises de la beauté v Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé

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2021/C 79/34

Case C-746/19: Order of the President of the Court of Justice of 4 December 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado Contencioso-Administrativo No 17 de Barcelona — Spain) — UD v Subdelegación del Gobierno en Barcelona

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2021/C 79/35

Case C-246/20: Order of the President of the Court of Justice of 21 December 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank van eerste aanleg Oost-Vlaanderen Afdeling Gent — Belgium) — Openbaar Ministerie v EA

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2021/C 79/36

Case C-467/20: Order of the President of the Court of Justice of 14 December 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Hamburg — Germany) — BC v Deutsche Lufthansa AG

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General Court

2021/C 79/37

Case T-328/17 RENV: Judgment of the General Court of 20 January 2021 — Foundation for the Protection of the Traditional Cheese of Cyprus named Halloumi v EUIPO — M. J. Dairies (BBQLOUMI) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark BBQLOUMI — Earlier EU collective word mark HALLOUMI — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

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2021/C 79/38

Case T-656/18: Judgment of the General Court of 20 January 2021 — Jareš Procházková and Jareš v EUIPO — Elton Hodinářská (MANUFACTURE PRIM 1949) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark MANUFACTURE PRIM 1949 — Absence of a prior right acquired pursuant to national law — Article 52(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/04 (now Article 60(2)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

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2021/C 79/39

Case T-712/18: Order of the General Court of 19 January 2021 — Umweltinstitut München v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to a meeting of the Joint Management Committee for Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures established by the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada, on the one hand, and the European Union and its Member States, on the other hand (CETA) — Refusal of partial access — Disclosure of the requested document after the appeal has been lodged — No longer any legal interest in bringing proceedings — No need to adjudicate)

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2021/C 79/40

Case T-34/20: Order of the General Court of 18 January 2021 — Datenlotsen Informationssysteme v Commission (Action for annulment — State aid — Software solutions for universities — Tax advantages and public funding — Formal investigation procedure — Decision classifying the implemented measures as existing aid — Lack of individual concern — No regulatory act — Inadmissibility)

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2021/C 79/41

Case T-736/20: Action brought on 11 December 2020 — OP v Commission

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2021/C 79/42

Case T-741/20: Action brought on 16 December 2020 — Advansa Manufacturing and Others v Commission

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2021/C 79/43

Case T-12/21: Action brought on 14 January 2021 — PJ v EIT

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2021/C 79/44

Case T-18/21: Action brought on 16 January 2021 — Be Smart v Commission

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2021/C 79/45

Case T-23/21: Action brought on 19 January 2021 — About You v EUIPO — Safe-1 Immobilieninvest (Y/O/U)

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2021/C 79/46

Case T-29/21: Action brought on 20 January 2021 — Beveland v EUIPO — Super B (BUCANERO)

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2021/C 79/47

Case T-34/21: Action brought on 22 January 2021 — Ryanair v Commission

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2021/C 79/48

Case T-189/20: Order of the General Court of 13 January 2021 — Chiquita Brands v EUIPO — Fyffes International (HOYA)

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2021/C 79/49

Case T-199/20: Order of the General Court of 15 January 2021 — Aldi Stores v EUIPO — Dualit (Shape of a toaster)

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2021/C 79/50

Case T-608/20: Order of the General Court of 20 January 2021 — JD v EIB

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