The recast Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive makes producers of medicines and cosmetics pay at least 80% of the cost of removing micropollutants from wastewater. The industry's direct actions were dismissed as inadmissible; the Irish High Court has now sent the validity question to Luxembourg, and in Poland's parallel action Advocate General Kokott has proposed that the core of the scheme be annulled.
By judgment of 7 December 2017 (ECLI:EU:C:2017:947) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 1(1) and Article 1(2)(a) of Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices, as amended by Directive 2007/47/EC of the…
A company has made a dairy product for patients with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. The company believes that this makes it a ‘food for a special medical purpose’ within the EU Commission’s Directive 1999/21/EC. However, in the United Kingdom, the Secretary of State for Health believes that that…
By judgment of 19 January 2017 (ECLI:EU:C:2017:26) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and…
By judgment of 26 October 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:801) the Court held that a product whose essential manufacturing steps are carried out in a pharmacy as part of its normal business, producing up to 100 dispensing-ready packages a day, is not prepared…
By judgment of 13 October 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:770) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 9 of Directive 98/79/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 October 1998 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices must be…
By judgment of 10 November 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:857) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 7(2) of Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States…
By judgment of 27 October 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:813) the Court held that Articles 34 and 36 TFEU preclude national rules reserving parallel imports of veterinary medicinal products to authorised wholesalers, thereby excluding farmers who import for their…
By judgment of 19 October 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:776) the Court held that Germany's system of fixed prices for prescription-only medicines, as applied to mail-order pharmacies established in other Member States, is a measure having equivalent effect contrary…
By judgment of 14 July 2016 (ECLI:EU:C:2016:563) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on…
By judgment of 16 July 2015 (ECLI:EU:C:2015:497) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 5 of the First Council Directive 89/104/EEC of 21 December 1988 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks must be…
By judgment of 10 July 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:2060) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 1(2)(b) of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal…
By judgment of 6 February 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:52) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “The Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Arab…
By judgment of 2 July 2015 (ECLI:EU:C:2015:436) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “The questions referred by the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Sicilia (Italy), by decision of 9 October 2012, and maintained by that court, are…
By judgment of 5 December 2013 (ECLI:EU:C:2013:791) the Court ruled, in the words of the operative part: “Article 49 TFEU must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which does not allow a…