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Dyson
Énergie
L’avocat général Saugmandsgaard Øe propose à la Cour de juger que les fournisseurs et les distributeurs d’aspirateurs ne peuvent pas utiliser d’étiquettes complémentaires reproduisant ou précisant les informations figurant sur l’étiquette énergétique prévue par un règlement de l’Union

The Scotch Whisky Association
Agriculture
L’avocat général Saugmandsgaard Øe se prononce sur l’interprétation des dispositions du droit de l’Union relatives aux indications géographiques des boissons spiritueuses dans le cadre d’un litige concernant un whisky allemand dénommé « Glen Buchenbach »

Porras Guisado
SOPO
Les travailleuses enceintes peuvent être licenciées en raison d’un licenciement collectif

On 15 June 2018 Prof. Dr. Susanne Augenhofer, LL.M. (Yale) will host the 4th round of the Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lectures. The Lectures take place in the Senatssaal of Humboldt-University and start at 2pm. This year’s speakers are:

• Prof. Robert C. Post, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• Prof. Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• Prof. Reva Siegel, Nicholas de B. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law Schoo

Participation in the event is free of charge, but requires registration at https://yhcll2018.eventbrite.de by June 1, 2018.

Pouvant aller à l’encontre du droit à la vie privée et familiale pour les prisonniers russes, et faisant l’objet de requêtes devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme, l’éloignement des condamnés pourrait faire l’objet d’un encadrement plus strict.

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Cour d'appel de Colmar, 08 février 2018

Tribunal de grande instance de Paris, 12 février 2018

Cour d'appel de Paris, 08 février 2018

Pourvoi c/ Cour d'appel d'Orléans, 5e chambre, 11 septembre 2017

Tribunal de grande instance de Montpellier, 12 février 2018

Conseil de prud'hommes de Bordeaux, 01 février 2018

Pourvoi c/Cour d'appel de Paris - pôle 6-chambre 1, 06 octobre 2017

Tribunal de grande instance de Nevers, 13 février 2018

Conseil de prud'hommes de Bordeaux, 1er février 2018

Pourvoi c/ Cour d'appel d'Aix-en-Provence, 13e chambre, 08 août 2017

Pourvoi c/ Cour d'appel de Lyon - 7e chambre , 05 juillet 2017

Matzak
Libre circulation des personnes
Le temps de garde d’un travailleur à domicile obligé de répondre aux appels de l’employeur dans un délai bref doit être considéré comme « temps de travail »

Allow me a succinct grumble about the precautionary principle. A recent Guardian item on trade talks post-Brexit refers ia to proponents of Brexit wanting to use future trade talks eg with the US, to ditch the precautionary principle. It states the proponents’ strategy ‘also advocates tearing up the EU’s “precautionary principle”, under which traders have to prove something is safe before it is sold, rather than waiting for it to be proved unsafe’.

Reversing the burden of proof (also known as the ‘no data no market rule’) is not a necessary prerequisite of the precautionary principle. If it were, public authorities’ task in regulating health, safety and the environment would look very different than it does today, as would the regulation of new technologies such as nano or synthetic biology (indeed even AI). Only in specific sectors, has the burden of proof been reversed. This includes, in the EU, REACH – the flagship Regulation on chemicals. In others, it was discussed (e.g. in the reform of the EU’s cosmetics Directive into a Regulation), but eventually dismissed.

Neither does the EU’s approach to the precautionary principle imply ‘when in doubt, opt out’, or ‘when in doubt, don’t do it’. One need only refer to the recent decision to extend the licence for glyphosate to show that the EU does not ban what is not proven safe (the least one can say about glyphosate is that its health and environmental safety is not clearly established). I blame Cass Sunstein’s Laws of Fear, superbly reviewed (critically) by Liz Fisher in the 2006 Modern Law Review for misrepresenting the principle – such that even its proponents often misunderstand its true meaning.

Precaution is not an alternative to science. It is a consequence of science.

Geert.

EU environmental law (with Leonie Reins), Edward Elgar, soft cover edition 2018, p.28 ff.

Condamnation de la France pour violation de l’article 6, § 1, de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme : une instruction, longue de plus de sept années entre le placement en garde à vue et l’ordonnance de non-lieu, emporte, au cas de l’espèce, un dépassement du « délai raisonnable ».

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The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg invites young researchers to actively participate in a colloquium on the “Current Challenges for EU Cross-Border Litigation in a Changing Procedural Environment”. The colloquium will precede a larger conference hosted together with the Court of Justice of the European Union on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Brussels Convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters. All candidates are requested to submit their abstract by 15 April 2018.

The 1968 Brussels Convention and its progeny have mainly been designed in reference to a classic cross-border case, with two opposing parties connected to different Member States. The 2012 recast of the Brussels Regulation remains largely indebted to this original setup. Time is already catching up with the Brussels Ibis Regulation, however. Today, the Brussels Regime is challenged by societal and technological changes, pushing the rules to their limits. Recent cases adjudicated by the Court of Justice in the field of data protection and competition law show that the current Regime does not entirely provide a satisfactory framework. Notable issues entail the plurality of parties, both as claimants and defendants, and considerations of public interest. Similar concerns can be raised in relation to consumer law and shareholder protection litigation. Against this backdrop, one can notice the emergence of online platforms that collect claims in order to facilitate cross-border litigation in these areas. At its 50th anniversary, can the Brussels Regime still provide an adequate response to today’s challenges?

On 26 September, the MPI Luxembourg will host a colloquium to look ahead to the current and future challenges for cross-border litigation in a changing European procedural environment. Young professors, post-docs and advanced PhD students who are interested in contributing to the discussions, are invited to submit an abstract of max. 1,000 words, together with their CV, to BrusselsConvention50@mpi.lu by 15 April 2018. The selected candidates will be expected to write a paper and give a presentation during the colloquium; and to prepare and present a poster during the conference that follows. Organised in collaboration with the CJEU on 27-28 September, the conference will bring together members of the CJEU and renown procedural law scholars to look back on 50 years of European civil procedure and discuss the impact and importance of the Brussels Regime for European integration.

The candidates’ papers will then be included in the conference proceedings, along with the contributions of members of the CJEU and procedural law scholars. All travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the MPI Luxembourg.

Submit an abstract