do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Case C-379/24: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Cataluña (Spain) lodged on 28 May 2024 – Agrupació de Neteja Sanitaria AIE v Tribunal Económico Administrativo Regional de Cataluña (TEARC)
Date: 2024-05-28
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: VAT, cleaning industry, healthcare industry, provision of services, restriction on competition, service, tax exemption, tax system








C_202405782EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
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C/2024/5782


7.10.2024






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Cataluña (Spain) lodged on 28 May 2024 – Agrupació de Neteja Sanitaria AIE v Tribunal Económico Administrativo Regional de Cataluña (TEARC)


(Case C-379/24)

(C/2024/5782)
Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Cataluña

Parties to the main proceedings


Appellant: Agrupació de Neteja Sanitaria AIE

Respondent: Tribunal Económico Administrativo Regional de Cataluña (TEARC)

Questions referred







1.


Is a national rule – Article 20(1)(6) of the VAT Law – which contains the stipulation that it relates to services provided directly and exclusively to the exempt activity (‘(a) such services are used directly and exclusively in the course of that activity and are necessary in order to carry it out;’) contrary to the meaning and purpose intended by the EU legislature with the exemption contained in Article 132(1)(f) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax, (1) where that stipulation is interpreted such that a service – cleaning in the area of healthcare – [is not considered to be] exclusive to that exempt sector, even though it is singular, technical and complex in its organisation and nature, as well as absolutely necessary?










2.


Is an interpretation of Article 20(1)(6) of the VAT Law contrary to the meaning and purpose intended by the EU legislature with the exemption contained in Article 132(1)(f) of Directive 2006/112/EC where, in order to refuse the exemption in accordance with EU limits, non-exclusivity in the provision of the service to the activity is equated with causing distortion of competition, thereby combining national and EU limits in order to refuse it? Please clarify whether the limit of ‘not distorting competition’ implies refusing the exemption, if it is not disputed by the parties, whatever the extent of its effect may be ([judgment of 20 November 2003, Taksatorringen, C-8/01, EU:C:2003:621], paragraph 48), on the basis that any exemption is a break with the general principle – acknowledged by the Court of Justice – of liability to tax.






(1)  Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax – OJ 2006 L 347, p. 1.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/5782/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-380/24: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Cataluña (Spain) lodged on 28 May 2024 – Educat Serveis auxiliars SCCL v Tribunal Económico Administrativo Regional de Cataluña (TEARC)
Date: 2024-05-28
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: VAT, cleaning industry, healthcare industry, provision of services, restriction on competition, service, tax exemption, tax system








C_202405783EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


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C/2024/5783


7.10.2024






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Cataluña (Spain) lodged on 28 May 2024 – Educat Serveis auxiliars SCCL v Tribunal Económico Administrativo Regional de Cataluña (TEARC)


(Case C-380/24)

(C/2024/5783)
Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Cataluña

Parties to the main proceedings


Appellant: Educat Serveis auxiliars SCCL

Respondent: Tribunal Económico Administrativo Regional de Cataluña (TEARC)

Questions referred







1.


Is a national rule – Article 20(1)(6) of the VAT Law – which contains the stipulation that it relates to services provided directly and exclusively to the exempt activity (‘(a) such services are used directly and exclusively in the course of that activity and are necessary in order to carry it out;’) contrary to the meaning and purpose intended by the EU legislature with the exemption contained in Article 132(1)(f) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax, (1) where that stipulation is interpreted such that a service – cleaning in the area of education – [is not considered to be] exclusive to that exempt sector, even though it is singular, technical and complex in its organisation – calling for the continuous cleaning and disinfection of facilities attended and occupied by children over long periods of time – and nature, as well as absolutely necessary?










2.


Is an interpretation of Article 20(1)(6) of the VAT Law contrary to the meaning and purpose intended by the EU legislature with the exemption contained in Article 132(1)(f) of Directive 2006/112/EC where, in order to refuse the exemption in accordance with EU limits, non-exclusivity in the provision of the service to the activity is equated with causing distortion of competition, thereby combining national and EU limits in order to refuse it? Please clarify whether the limit of ‘not distorting competition’ implies refusing the exemption, if it is not disputed by the parties, whatever the extent of its effect may be ([judgment of 20 November 2003, Taksatorringen, C-8/01, EU:C:2003:621], paragraph 48), on the basis that any exemption is a break with the general principle – acknowledged by the Court of Justice – of liability to tax.






(1)  Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax – OJ 2006 L 347, p. 1.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/5783/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-378/24: Action brought on 28 May 2024 – Kingdom of Spain v European Parliament
Date: 2024-05-28
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Netherlands, administrator, competition (EU), discrimination on the basis of nationality, equal treatment, job access, principle of proportionality, recruitment, secretariat of an Institution, staff regulations (EU)








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Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/4315


15.7.2024






Action brought on 28 May 2024 – Kingdom of Spain v European Parliament


(Case C-378/24)

(C/2024/4315)
Language of the case: Spanish

Parties


Applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: A. Gavela Llopis and L. Aguilera Ruiz, acting as Agents)

Defendant: European Parliament

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






—


annul Decision C (2024) 1723 of 4 March 2024 of the European Parliament announcing an open competition to draw up a list of 90 candidates of Dutch nationality to recruit an administrator for the European Parliament’s Secretariat;










—


annul the list of suitable candidates which, as a result of the contested competition, may be drawn up under Section B ‘Procedure’, Subsection 3, ‘List of suitable candidates’;










—


incidentally, declare the decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of 21 November 2022 to be invalid pursuant to Article 277 TFEU;










—


order the European Parliament to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments







1.


Infringement of Article 9 TEU, Article 18 TFEU and Article 1d of the Staff Regulations. Those provisions enshrine as a general principle of EU law the principle of equal treatment and non-discrimination in access to public employment in the European Union. The contested act breaches that principle by introducing discrimination on grounds of nationality which is not sufficiently justified and is not proportionate.










2.


Infringement of Article 27(1) of the Staff Regulations, by reserving the posts to be filled for nationals of a single Member State. The contested act lacks sufficient and appropriate justification. The decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament does not provide such appropriate reasons or point to studies, analyses or data which would make it possible to assess the justification, appropriateness or proportionality of the measure.










3.


Breach of the principle of merit for access to public employment, laid down in Article 27 of the Staff Regulations. The balance between the obligation to adopt effective measures to address geographical imbalance and observance of the principle of merit as a criterion for the recruitment of staff to work for the European Union.










4.


Incidental challenge, pursuant to Article 277 TFEU, to the decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of 21 November 2022, on the same legal grounds as those set out above.






ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/4315/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-376/24, FSMA: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Bruxelles (Belgium) lodged on 28 May 2024 – MT v Comité de direction de l’Autorité des services et des marchés financiers (FSMA)
Date: 2024-05-28
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: disclosure of information, freedom of expression, market abuse, mass media, minister, political figure, political opposition, privatisation, public consultation








C_202405299EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/5299


9.9.2024






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Bruxelles (Belgium) lodged on 28 May 2024 – MT v Comité de direction de l’Autorité des services et des marchés financiers (FSMA)


(Case C-376/24, FSMA)

(C/2024/5299)
Language of the case: French

Referring court

Cour d’appel de Bruxelles

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: MT

Defendant: Comité de direction de l’Autorité des services et des marchés financiers (FSMA)

Questions referred







1.


Must Article 3 of Directive 2003/6, (1) read in the light of Articles 11 and 52 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Article 10 ECHR and the principle of equality, in so far as it concerns the prohibition on ‘disclosing inside information to any other person unless such disclosure is made in the normal course of the exercise of his employment, profession or duties’, be interpreted as prohibiting the disclosure of inside information in the media (radio and websites of printed media outlets) by a person who has the status of politician, former minister and member of an opposition party, who intervenes in the media in that capacity, and who seeks, by that disclosure, to incite public debate on a question of general interest in such a way as to criticise a privatisation project, even though his or her duties do not normally involve such a disclosure of inside information in the media?










2.


Must the scope of Article 21 of Regulation No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse, (2) read in the light of the same principles as those set out in the preceding question, be interpreted as being limited to disclosure or dissemination of inside information by journalists, or does it also apply to the disclosure or dissemination of inside information in the media by a person, such as a politician, former minister and member of an opposition party, who seeks, by that disclosure, to incite public debate on a question of general interest in such a way as to criticise a privatisation project?






(1)  Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse) (OJ 2003 L 96, p. 16).

(2)  Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (market abuse regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC (OJ 2014 L 173, p. 1).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/5299/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11543 – HIG CAPITAL / ALIGHT (PAYROLL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BUSINESS))
Date: 2024-05-28
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: cloud computing, digital transformation, economic concentration, investment company, merger control, outsourcing, provision of services, service, software








C_202404920EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/4920


6.8.2024






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.11543 – HIG CAPITAL / ALIGHT (PAYROLL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BUSINESS))
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2024/4920)

On 28 May 2024, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the internal market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1). The full text of the decision is available only in English and will be made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:






—


in the merger section of the ‘Competition policy’ website of the Commission (https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/search). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case number, date and sectoral indexes,










—


in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32024M11543. EUR-Lex is the online point of access to European Union law.






(1)  
            OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/4920/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Notice for the attention of the natural and legal persons, entities and bodies subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2014/145/CFSP, as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/1508, and Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1493 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
Date: 2024-05-28
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian issue, Ukraine, economic sanctions, freezing of assets, international sanctions, legal person, natural person, territorial dispute, territorial law








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Official Journal of the European Union


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C series













C/2024/3508


28.5.2024






Notice for the attention of the natural and legal persons, entities and bodies subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2014/145/CFSP, as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/1508, and Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1493 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
(C/2024/3508)

The following information is brought to the attention of the persons, entities and bodies that appear in the Annex to Council Decision 2014/145/CFSP (1), as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/1508 (2), and in Annex I to Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 (3) as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1493 (4) concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
Article 9(2) of Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 requires that those persons, entities or bodies must report, before 1 September 2022 or within 6 weeks from the date of listing in Annex I, whichever is latest, funds or economic resources within the jurisdiction of a Member State belonging to, owned, held or controlled by them, to the competent authority of the Member State where those funds or economic resources are located. They must cooperate with the national competent authority in any verification of such information. Failure to comply with these obligations will be considered as circumvention of the measures on the freezing of funds and of economic resources.
The information to be reported must be sent to the competent authority of the relevant Member State, via its website as indicated in Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 (5).


(1)  
            OJ L 78, 17.3.2014, p. 16.

(2)  
            OJ L, 2024/1508, 27.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/1508/oj.

(3)  
            OJ L 78, 17.3.2014, p. 6.

(4)  
            OJ L, 2024/1493, 27.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/1493/oj.

(5)  Last consolidated version available at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02014R0269-20240314



ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3508/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Notice for the attention of persons and entities subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP and in Council Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria
Date: 2024-05-28
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, Syria, economic sanctions, freezing of assets, international sanctions, legal person, natural person








C_202403499EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/3499


28.5.2024






Notice for the attention of persons and entities subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP and in Council Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria
(C/2024/3499)

The following information is brought to the attention of the persons and entities designated in Annex I to Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP (1), as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/1510 (2), and in Annex II to Council Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 (3), as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1517 (4), concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria.
The Council of the European Union, after having reviewed the list of persons and entities designated in the above-mentioned Annexes, has determined that the restrictive measures provided for in Decision 2013/255/CFSP and in Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 should continue to apply to those persons and entities.
The attention of the persons and entities concerned is drawn to the possibility of making an application to the competent authorities of the relevant Member State(s) as indicated on the websites in Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 36/2012, in order to obtain an authorisation to use frozen funds for basic needs or specific payments (cf. Article 16 of the Regulation).
The persons and entities concerned may submit a request to the Council before 1 February 2025
         , together with supporting documentation that the decision to include them on the above-mentioned list should be reconsidered to the following address:





Council of the European Union




General Secretariat




RELEX.1




Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 1751048 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË




Email: sanctions@consilium.europa.eu





Any observations received will be taken into account for the purpose of the Council's next review, pursuant to Article 34 of Decision 2013/255/CFSP and Article 32(4) of Regulation (EU) No 36/2012, of the list of designated persons and entities.


(1)  
            OJ L 147, 1.6.2013, p. 14.

(2)  
            OJ L, 2024/1510, 28.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/1510/oj.

(3)  
            OJ L 16, 19.1.2012, p. 1.

(4)  
            OJ L, 2024/1517, 28.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/1517/oj.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3499/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Euro exchange rates – 27 May 2024
Date: 2024-05-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate, money








C_202402544EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/2544


28.5.2024






Euro exchange rates (1)


            27 May 2024
         
(C/2024/2544)


1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,0843 




JPY


Japanese yen


170,07 




DKK


Danish krone


7,4619 




GBP


Pound sterling


0,85070 




SEK


Swedish krona


11,5400 




CHF


Swiss franc


0,9922 




ISK


Iceland króna


149,70 




NOK


Norwegian krone


11,4150 




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558 




CZK


Czech koruna


24,733 




HUF


Hungarian forint


384,70 




PLN


Polish zloty


4,2553 




RON


Romanian leu


4,9763 




TRY


Turkish lira


34,9000 




AUD


Australian dollar


1,6320 




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,4813 




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


8,4663 




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,7665 




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,4633 




KRW


South Korean won


1 478,03 




ZAR


South African rand


19,9632 




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


7,8545 




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


17 421,56 




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


5,0930 




PHP


Philippine peso


63,090 




RUB


Russian rouble


 




THB


Thai baht


39,702 




BRL


Brazilian real


5,6038 




MXN


Mexican peso


18,0901 




INR


Indian rupee


90,1393 






(1)  
            Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/2544/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11520 – SEFE / WIGA / WIGA GP)
Date: 2024-05-28
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, energy transport, gas pipeline, gas supply, holding company, merger control, natural gas, storage of hydrocarbons








C_202403558EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/3558


5.6.2024






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.11520 – SEFE / WIGA / WIGA GP)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2024/3558)

On 28 May 2024, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the internal market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1). The full text of the decision is available only in English and will be made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:






—


in the merger section of the ‘Competition policy’ website of the Commission (https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/search). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case number, date and sectoral indexes,










—


in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32024M11520. EUR-Lex is the online point of access to European Union law.






(1)  
            OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/3558/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)