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Ivo Taricco

By preventing, in cases of serious fraud in relation to VAT, the imposition of effective and dissuasive penalties because the overall limitation period is too brief, Italian law is liable to affect the financial interests of the European Union. In such a case, the Italian court must if need be disapply the overall limitation system in question. The Court concluded that : A...
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Francis Lanigan

In its request for a preliminary ruling, the High Court of Ireland had asked the Court of Justice whether the failure to observe the time-limits within which a decision on the execution of the...
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Parliament v. Council (Implementing decisions of pre-Lisbon acts)

On 16 April, the Court ruled on two actions for annulment brought by the Parliament against three Council Decisions adopted after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. The ruling is crucial...
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X v Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri*

Pending case. Request for a preliminary ruling lodged on 13 April 2015 Questions referred Must Directive 2004/80/EC relating to compensation to crime victims (Article...
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Opinion 2/13 (EU Accession to the ECHR)

The Court of Justice delivers its opinion on the draft agreement on the accession of the European Union to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and...
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Procura della Repubblica v M

Following a thorough criminal investigation, the judicial authorities of one Member State (Belgium) refused a request to send the person under investigation for trial and instead made a finding of...
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Zoran Spasic

The rule, in the Schengen Area, restricting the application of the ne bis in idem principle to cases in which the penalty imposed in a Member State has been enforced or is actually in the process...
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