EU Case Law

The Court annuls the directive on cross-border exchange of information on road safety related traffic offenses, considering that both in respect of its aim and its content, the directive is a measure to improve transport safety and should therefore have been adopted on the basis of Article 91 TFEU (transport policy). The effects of the directive are nevertheless maintained for a maximum...

The Court of Justice declares the Data Retention Directive to be invalid. It entails a wide-ranging and particularly serious interference with the fundamental rights to respect for private life...

By Commission Regulation (EC) No 1629/2005 of 5 October 2005, the applicant’s name was added to the list in Annex I of Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 of 27 May 2002 and his assets and other...

The term ‘court having jurisdiction in particular in criminal matters’, set out in Article 1(a)(iii) of Council Framework Decision 2005/214/JHA of 24 February 2005 on the application of the...

The Court dismisses the appeals against the General Court’s ‘Kadi II’ judgment.  The European Union may not impose restrictive measures on Mr Kadi, without evidence to substantiate his...

This reference for a preliminary ruling especially concerns Directive 2004/38/EC on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of...

EU law does not prevent Member States from providing for an appeal suspending execution of a decision extending the effects of a European arrest warrant. EU law does, however, require that, in...