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Opinion of Advocate General Collins delivered on 1 February 2024.
Asociaţia 'Forumul Judecătorilor din România' and Asociaţia 'Mişcarea pentru Apărarea Statutului Procurorilor' v Parchetul de pe lângă Înalta Curte de Casaţie şi Justiţie – Procurorul General al României.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Piteşti.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Rule of law – Judicial independence – Article 19(1) TEU – Cooperation and Verification Mechanism – Benchmarks subscribed to by Romania – Fight against corruption – Investigations of offences committed within the Judiciary – Action challenging the nomination of prosecutors with competence to conduct those investigations – Standing of professional associations of judges to bring proceedings.
Case C-53/23.

Court reports – general

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2024:104

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 26 January 2023.
Criminal proceedings against V.S.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Spetsializiran nakazatelen sad.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Directive (EU) 2016/680 – Article 4(1)(a) to (c) – Principles relating to processing of personal data – Purpose limitation – Data minimisation – Article 6(a) – Clear distinction between personal data of different categories of data subjects – Article 8 – Lawfulness of processing – Article 10 – Transposition – Processing of biometric data and genetic data – Concept of ‘processing authorised by Member State law’ – Concept of ‘strictly necessary’ – Discretion – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Articles 7, 8, 47, 48 and 52 – Right to effective judicial protection – Presumption of innocence – Limitation – Intentional criminal offence subject to public prosecution – Accused persons – Collection of photographic and dactyloscopic data in order for them to be entered in a record and taking of a biological sample for the purpose of creating a DNA profile – Procedure for enforcement of collection – Systematic nature of the collection.
Case C-205/21.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2023:49

Opinion of Advocate General Emiliou delivered on 10 November 2022.
T.A.C. v Agenția Națională de Integritate (ANI).
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Timişoara.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Decision 2006/928/EC – Mechanism for cooperation and verification of progress in Romania to address specific benchmarks in the areas of judicial reform and the fight against corruption – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Article 15(1) – Article 47 – Article 49(3) – Elective public office – Conflict of interests – National legislation prohibiting the holding of elective public office for a predetermined period – Penalty additional to the termination of the term of office – Principle of proportionality.
Case C-40/21.

Court reports – general

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2022:873

Opinion of Advocate General Emiliou delivered on 2 June 2022.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2022:431

Opinion of Advocate General Emiliou delivered on 7 April 2022.
I and S v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Den Haag zittingsplaats Haarlem.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 – Criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection – Article 8(2) and Article 27(1) – Unaccompanied minor with a relative legally present in another Member State – Refusal by that Member State of that minor’s take charge request – Right to an effective remedy of that minor or of that relative against the refusal decision – Articles 7, 24 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Best interests of the child.
Case C-19/21.

Court reports – general

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2022:279

Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 21 December 2021.
Zoi Apostolopoulou and Anastasia Apostolopoulou-Chrysanthaki v European Commission.
Non-contractual liability – Grant agreements concluded in the context of various EU programmes – Breach of contractual terms by the beneficiary company – Eligible costs – OLAF investigation – Liquidation of the company – Recovery from the partners in the company – Enforcement – Allegations made by the representatives of the Commission before the national courts – Identification of the defendant – Disregard of formal requirements – Partial inadmissibility – Sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law conferring rights on individuals.
Joined Cases T-721/18 and T-81/19.

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

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2021:933

Opinion of Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe delivered on 25 November 2020.
XX v Tartu Vangla.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Riigikohus.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Equal treatment in employment and occupation – Directive 2000/78/EC – Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of disability – Article 2(2)(a) – Article 4(1) – Article 5 – National legislation laying down auditory acuity requirements for prison officers – Non-compliance with the prescribed minimum standards of sound perception – Absolute bar to continued employment.
Case C-795/19.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:961

Opinion of Advocate General Bobek delivered on 9 July 2020.
Syndicat CFTC du personnel de la Caisse primaire d’assurance maladie de la Moselle v Caisse primaire d’assurance maladie de Moselle.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil de prud'hommes de Metz.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Directive 2006/54/EC – Equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in employment and occupation – Articles 14 and 28 – National collective agreement granting the right to leave following the statutory maternity leave for female workers who bring up their children on their own – Exclusion of male workers from the right to that leave – Protection of female workers as regards both the consequences of pregnancy and the condition of maternity – Conditions under which applicable.
Case C-463/19.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2020:550

Opinion of Advocate General Bobek delivered on 10 September 2019.
WA v Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social (INSS).
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Social de Gerona.
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Social policy — Directive 79/7/EEC — Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security — Article 4(1) and (2) — Article 7(1) — Calculation of benefits — Directive 2006/54/EC — Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation — National legislation granting a right to a pension supplement for women who have had at least two biological or adopted children, and who are in receipt of a contributory permanent incapacity pension — Same right not granted to men in an identical situation — Comparable situation — Direct discrimination on grounds of sex — No exceptions.
Case C-450/18.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2019:696

Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 11 June 2019.
Fernando De Esteban Alonso v European Commission.
Civil service — Former officials — Investigation by OLAF — ‘Eurostat’ case — Forwarding to the national judicial authorities of information concerning matters liable to result in criminal proceedings — Failure to inform in advance the officials potentially concerned — Damage allegedly sustained as a result of the conduct of OLAF and the Commission in the course of the proceedings — Non-material, physical and material harm — Causal link.
Case T-138/18.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2019:398