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-387/12, Hi Hotel – jurisdiction and participation in copyright infringement
For the purposes of Article 5(3) of EC Regulation 44/2001, does a German court have the jurisdiction to adjudicate copyright infringement where there has been a contributory act in France?
Continue readingCase C-360/12, Coty Prestige Lancaster Group – jurisdiction and participation in trade mark infringement
Can a trade mark be infringed in Germany as a result of an act committed in Belgium? And for the purposes of Article 5(3) of EC Regulation 44/2001, does the harmful event occur in Germany if a tortious act is committed in Belgium but there was participation in the main tortious act which took place in Germany?
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?
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