Are the Dutch rules requiring passport applicants to be fingerprinted and to have their biometric data stored initially in local registers, and then in a central register, compatible with EU law?
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Case C-447/12, Kooistra – No fingerprints? No Dutch ID card.
Are the Dutch rules that require four fingerprints to be taken from people wishing to have a Dutch identity card compatible with EU privacy law?
Continue readingCase C-446/12, Willems – No fingerprints? No Dutch passport. No travel outside the EU.
Are the Dutch rules requiring the fingerprinting of all applicants for a Dutch passport compatible with EU law?
Continue readingCase C-521/11, Amazon – Austrian private-copy ‘fair compensation’ and EU copyright law
Is the private-copy levy system of Austrian copyright law compatible with the EC’s InfoSoc Directive 2001/29 when national law: (a) puts the levy on all blank recording-media irrespective of whether the media are marketed to intermediaries, to natural or legal persons and for use other than for private purposes; (b) offers refunds in some circumstances but not others; and (c), only pays authors half of the net ‘fair compensation’ monies collected and gives away the other half to Austrian cultural organisations?
Continue readingCase C-370/12, Pringle – is the ESM Treaty compatible with the EU Treaties?
Is Council Decision 2011/199/EU, amending Article 136 of the TFEU with regard to a stability mechanism for Member States whose currency is the euro, valid? And is a Member State entitled to enter an international agreement such as the European Stability Mechanism Treaty (ESM Treaty) or would that mean undertaking obligations which are incompatible with the TEU and TFEU?
Continue readingCase C-291/12, Michael Schwarz – No fingerprints? No passport. An invalid EC Regulation?
Is the EU’s biometric data Regulation 2252/2004 invalid because it is a disproportionate infringement of a person’s fundamental rights to privacy and data processing?
Continue readingCase C-150/12, Brännström – Ryanair strain leaves passengers taking the train
When can an airline avoid paying compensation for an ‘extraordinary circumstance’ under Article 5(3) of Regulation 261/2004?
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