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… of the EU’s Food Safety Authority or Tax-Justice have in common? In order to access these documents, (selected) Members of the European Parliament are requested to attend closed reading rooms. This blog post discusses how an exception to open parliamentary oversight is increasingly becoming a regular institutional practice and questions its spillover effect on requests for public access to documents. This blog was originally published on 30 September 2016 on EU Law Analysis Background As the wording … access to sensitive information in the field of security and defence policy (see Art. 3 and Annex, second paragraph). The rationale of what this Agreement called ‘secured room’ was to make sensitive documents available for purposes of parliamentary oversight without ‘risks’ of public disclosure or possible leaks, i.e. unauthorised disclosure of documents. Initially, this practice was mostly confined to the area of security and defence for documents classified as official secrets. Yet, with … of the EU’s Food Safety Authority or Tax-Justice have in common? In order to access these documents, (selected) Members of the European Parliament are requested to attend closed reading rooms. This blog post discusses how an exception to open parliamentary oversight is increasingly becoming a regular institutional practice and questions its spillover effect on requests for public access to documents. … ‘Inside’ the European Parliament’s Closed Reading Rooms: Transparency in the EU …
… law has materialised in the United States. This February, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission reached a far-reaching settlement in favour of consumers . The company has to fully compensate misled consumers through a combination of repair, monetary compensation and buy-backs. But, in the Member States of the EU, the experience with the use of unfair commercial practices law appears to have been mixed. The Italian competition authority fined Volkswagen for unfair commercial practices after … and Vladislav Perenič v. SOS finance spol. s r.o) could apply in this constellation. However, there is also the individual consumer litigation that is heavily pushed for and that could help consumers to have their losses compensated. The website www.my-right.de , which is maintained by the American litigation law firm Hausfeld, has been initiating consumer law disputes against the distributors of VW cars and against Volkswagen with a view to obtaining damages via individual (model) …
… vraagstuk van immigratie. Het belang van de euro. En ook uiteraard iets over de Brexit. Ik zou dan ook eerder het thema duiden als: een soeverein Europa, dat zich als eenheid, krachtig en zelfbewust opstelt, intern en vooral ook extern. Een sterke grensbewaking, met inderdaad meer personeel en een grotere rol voor de EU aangaande de voorheen voornamelijk nationale soevereine taak van grensbewaking. Veel en goede handelsverdragen. Een grotere rol voor de Euro op het wereldtoneel via buitenlandse politiek met daarbij het voorstel om op een aantal terreinen van buitenlands beleid de unanimiteit te vervangen door gekwalificeerde … books and articles on Dutch Constitutional law, the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter, comparative constitutional law, US constitutional law, Human Rights and legal education. Author of blogs on the Montesquieu Institute website. Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht Students Psychology and Neuroscience Science and Engineering Universiteitsraad … Dat is de titel van de …
… Zoekresultaten 24 februari 2021 door: M. Unfried P.J.T. Mertens in Algemeen Corona Rechtsgeleerdheid Eerder heeft ITEM al geschreven over de mobiliteitsbeperkende quarantaine-maatregelen omwille van het voorkomen van COVID-19-besmettingen. Beleid is zo ingericht om met name de mobiliteit over de landsgrenzen te beperken tot het minimum, met het wintersportseizoen in het achterhoofd. Doel en middel … de Commissie op 17 februari 2021 alle lidstaten een vriendelijke reminder toegezonden.[ iii ] Het beleid in de Euregio Maas-Rijn De volgende vraag is hoe het dagdagelijkse leven van de inwoners van grensregio’s kan worden ontlast én het aantal reisbewegingen kan worden beperkt, omwille van het beperken van de besmettingsgraden. Hierbij is het essentieel om te erkennen dat grensregio’s grensoverschrijdend zijn. Het is niet zozeer een regio aan een grens, maar een regio óver de grens: inwoners … General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht Students Psychology and Neuroscience Science and Engineering Universiteitsraad … Eerder heeft ITEM al geschreven over de mobiliteitsbeperkende quarantaine-maatregelen omwille van het voorkomen van COVID-19-besmettingen. Beleid is zo ingericht om met name de mobiliteit over de landsgrenzen te beperken tot het minimum, met het wintersportseizoen in het achterhoofd. Doel en middel …
… previous judgments, the Court expressed its commitment to standing for the right to counter-demonstration but also pointed to its reasonable limits. Additionally, the judgment disproves a popular contention that the Court is biased against authoritarian-leaning states, such as Russia and Turkey. Nonetheless, the stance taken by the Court is not entirely convincing and could have dangerous consequences for the democratic discourse. It is bewildering that the Government was allowed to enjoy an … that the Court applied a restrictive interpretation of the right to counter-demonstration. Contrary to its own conclusion in Fáber, where it established that states have a positive obligation to protect the freedom of assembly of all demonstrating groups present at the venue, its reasoning in Manannikov seems to suggest that individuals can only freely express their views and opinions provided there is a time and a place for it. For some reason, it was more concerned that the applicant’s banner … reasoning, states are allowed to prioritise public order concerns over out-of-ordinary political action. However, one can wonder whether this logic is in line with the spirit of the Convention. Article 10 affords enhanced protection to vulnerable groups who must be able to speak out freely on matters of public interest. The ongoing war in Ukraine once again exposed the importance of uplifting the voices of the opponents of the regime. However, the judgment in Manannikov forsakes the values of …
… are tourists, the public calls for a ban have been mainly aimed at Russian tourists. As a result, if the legislature would create a mechanism that only allows the issuance of tourist visas to be suspended, this issue would not pose itself and the ‘targeted’ nature of the measure would be a key factor in the assessment of its proportionality. Instead of pursuing the analysis under Article 52 of the Charter, the blogpost turns to hyperbole: “the war between Russian and Ukraine is not a compelling … that would be legally questionable (as noted in the original blog post) and there would only be a patchwork of national bans. For a uniform EU-imposed ban to be legally sound, the Visa Code would have to be amended, inserting a mechanism allowing for targeted bans as described above. For this, a proposal from the Commission is needed and a decision by the Parliament and Council under the ordinary legislative procedure. Member States might not feel comfortable enough (to entrust the Commission with … States’ but in these situations, Article 291(2) TFEU allows the EU legislature to exceptionally confer powers on the Council. In short, if there is a political will between the co-legislators, a mechanism allowing for the imposition of temporary and targeted bans could be introduced and depending on the modalities of the mechanism, the resulting bans could be entirely lawful. Originally published on Verfassungsblog - more blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: law MCEL European and …
… the lifting of immunities , voted to block an investigation against Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini over his decision to hold over 150 migrants on board a ship for five days. This vote was preceded by an internet consultation called by the 5 Star Movement party leaders through the Movement’s online platform . This episode shows a trend towards an abuse of the tool of direct democracy, which creates a worrisome vulnus to the Italian constitutional set up and the principle of the rule of law. Ministerial immunity put to the test of the web The background On Tuesday, the Italian Senate committee tasked with advising the Senate on the lifting of immunities on the basis of Article 96 of the Italian constitution, voted to block an investigation against Deputy Prime Minister Matteo … migrants on board a ship for five days. The committee voted 16 to 6 to stop the investigation into Salvini, who is also Interior Minister and the leader of the far-right League party which currently rules in a coalition with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement. Prosecutors in Sicily are investigating Mr Salvini on grounds of kidnapping, for preventing a boat of migrants on a coast guard vessel from entering the country in August last year. As a Minister, Mr Salvini is subject to the ordinary …
… the perspective of the average consumer in China, the marks “无印良品”and “無印良品” can be deemed identical. It is worth noting that when Hainan Nanhua Company registered the disputed trademark in 2001, the Japanese MUJI company had not operated its business targeting mainland China consumers but it has been collaborating with some original equipment manufacturers (“OEM”) in China for producing goods bearing the similar mark(“無印良品”) solely for exportation. Preemptive registration MUJI, the right holder of …
… Authority announced their new policy involving companies that refuse to pay the administrative fines (civil money penalties) imposed by this authority. If the company does not pay the fine after a reminder, the Gambling Authority will not only start a procedure to collect the money penalty but will also publish the refusal of the company to pay. In conformity with legally required practice the company involved will be given the possibility to react upon the intention to publish this on the authorities’ website . This publication will be removed in case the administrative fine will be paid after all. According to the authority part of the companies that offered illegal gambling the administrative fines was imposed for do not take responsibility with …
… vraagstuk van immigratie. Het belang van de euro. En ook uiteraard iets over de Brexit. Ik zou dan ook eerder het thema duiden als: een soeverein Europa, dat zich als eenheid, krachtig en zelfbewust opstelt, intern en vooral ook extern. Een sterke grensbewaking, met inderdaad meer personeel en een grotere rol voor de EU aangaande de voorheen voornamelijk nationale soevereine taak van grensbewaking. Veel en goede handelsverdragen. Een grotere rol voor de Euro op het wereldtoneel via buitenlandse politiek met daarbij het voorstel om op een aantal terreinen van buitenlands beleid de unanimiteit te vervangen door gekwalificeerde … books and articles on Dutch Constitutional law, the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter, comparative constitutional law, US constitutional law, Human Rights and legal education. Author of blogs on the Montesquieu Institute website. Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht Students Psychology and Neuroscience Science and Engineering Universiteitsraad … Dat is de titel van de …