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Consorzio Tutela Aceto Balsamico di Modena
Agriculture
La protection de la dénomination « Aceto Balsamico di Modena » ne s’étend pas à l’utilisation des termes non géographiques de celle-ci tels que « aceto » et « balsamico »

Quel premier état des lieux des cours criminelles peut-on faire ? Depuis septembre, les procès s’enchaînent dans les six départements concernés pour le moment par l’expérimentation. Le septième, à la cour d’assises des Ardennes, ne commencera l’expérimentation qu’à partir de 2020. Nous avons demandé à des avocats ce qu’ils retenaient des affaires jugées.

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Urbanisme

République tchèque / Parlement et Conseil
Politique industrielle
La Cour de justice rejette le recours de la République tchèque contre la directive renforçant le contrôle de l’acquisition et de la détention d’armes à feu

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s post on e-collars, a short note on yet another trade and animal welfare /biodiversity case. In [2019] EWHC 2951 (Admin) Friends of Antique Cultural Treasures v Secretary of State for the environment, food and rural affairs, Justice Jay (‘Jay J’ even though correct might sound a bit too intimate) upheld the UK’s planned ban on ivory trade, stricter than anything in place elsewhere. As a general rule, the Act interdicts the sale of antique worked ivory, that is to say pre-1947 artefacts, unless one of limited exemptions is applicable.

The discussion engages CITES, pre-emption /exhaustion by harmonised EU law, the environmental guarantee of Article 193 TFEU (albeit not, oddly, the issue of notification to the EC), Article 34 TFEU, and A1P1 ECHR.

On uncertainty, Justice Jay refers to the precautionary principle: at 155: ‘we are in the realm of scientific and evidentiary uncertainty, and the need for a high level of protection. §3.1 of the Commission’s 2017 Guidance makes that explicit. Although the evidence bearing on the issues of indirect causation and demand in Far Eastern markets may be uncertain, statistically questionable, impressionistic and often anecdotal, I consider that these factors do not preclude the taking of bold and robust action in the light of the precautionary principle.’

Rosalind English has analysis here and refers even to Edmund de Waal’s novel The Hare with the Amber Eyes which has been on my reading list after my wife recommended it – this is a good reminder.

Geert.

EU environmental law (with Leonie Reins), Edward Elgar, 2018, p.28 ff., and Chapter 17 (p.308 ff).

Le maire de Levallois-Perret, Patrick Balkany, extrait lundi de la maison d’arrêt de La Santé, a sollicité la diminution du montant de la caution préalable à sa remise en liberté – 500 000 € – dans le dossier de fraude fiscale et plaidé une seconde demande de remise en liberté dans celui de blanchiment de fraude fiscale. Le ministère public s’est opposé à ces deux requêtes.

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I tweeted the judgment the day it was issued, apologies for late succinct review. I wrote a few years back on the legality of use restrictions on goods lawfully marketed in other Member States, and see also my brief review of Amsterdam’s booze bikes here. In [2019] EWHC 2813 (Admin) The Electronic Collar Manufacturers Association v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Morris J upheld the UK Government’s ban on e-collars (a hand-held remote-controlled (not automated: a distinction that matters as Rosalind English points out) e-collar device for cats and dogs, used particularly in dogs for training purposes).

His analysis engages all the right issues in discussing the lawfulness of a ban at 204 ff under Article 34 TFEU (including consultation and commissioned research issues and of course proportionality), less focused than I would have expected perhaps on the fact that these items are lawfully marketed elsewhere in the EU, and indeed A1P1 (Article 1, first Protocol) ECHR. The remainder of the judgment discusses internal UK judicial review. An excellent primer on trade and animal welfare under EU and ECHR law.

Geert.

 

 

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