EU Case Law

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 12(2)) be interpreted as precluding national implementing legislation which refers, with regard to the payment of compensation chargeable to the State, to special legal provisions in favour of victims of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...