do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Case T-468/24: Order of the General Court of 10 February 2025 – FB v Parliament (Civil service – Officials – Surviving spouse – Survivor’s pension – Refusal to grant – Article 17 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations – Conditions for eligibility – Duration of the marriage – Force majeure – Non-discrimination – Proportionality – Principle of sound administration – Duty to have regard for the welfare of staff – Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
Date: 2025-02-10
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: European official, equal treatment, marriage, principle of proportionality, staff regulations (EU), survivor's benefit








C_202502555EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/2555


12.5.2025






Order of the General Court of 10 February 2025 – FB v Parliament


(Case T-468/24)
                (1)

(Civil service - Officials - Surviving spouse - Survivor’s pension - Refusal to grant - Article 17 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations - Conditions for eligibility - Duration of the marriage - 
Force majeure
 - Non-discrimination - Proportionality - Principle of sound administration - Duty to have regard for the welfare of staff - Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
(C/2025/2555)
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: FB (represented by: M. Casado García Hirschfeld, lawyer)

Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: S. Bukšek Tomac and M. Mão Cheia Carreira, acting as Agents)

Re:

By his action based on Article 270 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision of the European Parliament of 13 November 2023, by which the Parliament rejected his application for the grant of a survivor’s pension.

Operative part of the order







1.


The action is dismissed as manifestly lacking any foundation in law.










2.


There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the European Commission’s application to intervene.










3.


FB shall bear his own costs and pay those incurred by the European Parliament.










4.


All parties shall bear their own costs relating to the application to intervene.






(1)  
            OJ C C/2024/7035, 2.12.2024.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2555/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union – Cases where the Commission raises no objections – SA.116253
Date: 2025-02-10
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: Italy, State aid, control of State aid, farming sector, fishing industry, forestry policy








C_202500974EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/974


10.2.2025






Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Cases where the Commission raises no objections
SA.116253
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2025/974)








Date of adoption of the decision


10.12.2024




Aid number


SA.116253




Member State


Italy




Region


Italy




Title (title and/or name of the beneficiary)


Misura M2C1 – Investimento 3.4 – Fondo Rotativo Contratti di Filiera (FCF) per il sostegno dei contratti di filiera per il settore forestale in attuazione del Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)




Legal basis


Decreto recante indicazioni per l’attuazione della misura M2C1 – Investimento 3.4 – Fondo Rotativo Contratti di Filiera (FCF) per il sostegno dei contratti di filiera per i settori agroalimentare, pesca e acquacoltura, silvicoltura, floricoltura e vivaismo in attuazione del Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR). Decreto n. 131169 del 19 marzo 2024




Type of measure


Scheme


 




Objective


Agriculture; Forestry; Rural areas, Aid for investments in forestry technologies and in processing, in mobilising and in marketing of forest products




Form of aid


Direct grant




Budget


Overall budget: 60 000 000  EUR




Intensity


 




Duration


Until 31.12.2028




Economic sectors


AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING




Name and address of the granting authority







Istituto di Servizi per il Mercato Agricolo Alimentare - ISMEA




Via Liegi 26, 00198








Other information


 




The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/search?caseInstrument=SA



ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/974/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11744 – PINNACLE MEDIA / REDBIRD / NAI / PARAMOUNT)
Date: 2025-02-10
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: audiovisual industry, cinema, economic concentration, film industry, holding company, investment company, mass media, merger control








C_202501155EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/1155


18.2.2025






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.11744 – PINNACLE MEDIA / REDBIRD / NAI / PARAMOUNT)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2025/1155)

On 10 February 2025, 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 32025M11744. 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/2025/1155/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Euro exchange rates – 7 February 2025
Date: 2025-02-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate, money








C_202500785EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/785


10.2.2025






Euro exchange rates (1)


            7 February 2025
         
(C/2025/785)


1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,0377 




JPY


Japanese yen


157,77 




DKK


Danish krone


7,4600 




GBP


Pound sterling


0,83353 




SEK


Swedish krona


11,2865 




CHF


Swiss franc


0,9418 




ISK


Iceland króna


146,60 




NOK


Norwegian krone


11,6250 




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558 




CZK


Czech koruna


25,108 




HUF


Hungarian forint


405,55 




PLN


Polish zloty


4,1985 




RON


Romanian leu


4,9768 




TRY


Turkish lira


37,3344 




AUD


Australian dollar


1,6525 




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,4883 




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


8,0828 




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,8287 




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,4021 




KRW


South Korean won


1 501,65 




ZAR


South African rand


19,1225 




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


7,5634 




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


16 933,08 




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


4,6074 




PHP


Philippine peso


60,190 




RUB


Russian rouble


 




THB


Thai baht


34,924 




BRL


Brazilian real


5,9857 




MXN


Mexican peso


21,2827 




INR


Indian rupee


90,8135 






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


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/785/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11831 – BNPP LCTIEF / MET 6 / ARKOLIA)
Date: 2025-02-10
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: carbon capture and storage, economic concentration, electrical energy, electricity storage device, energy production, investment company, land transport, merger control, renewable energy, telecommunications








C_202501256EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/1256


19.2.2025






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.11831 – BNPP LCTIEF / MET 6 / ARKOLIA)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2025/1256)

On 10 February 2025, 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 French 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 32025M11831. 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/2025/1256/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-450/24, Cudu: Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 10 February 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rayonen sad Haskovo – Bulgaria) – Criminal proceedings against MB (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Questions the answer to which may be clearly deduced from the Court’s existing case-law – Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Right to property – Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA – Confiscation of crime-related proceeds, instrumentalities and property – National legislation providing for the confiscation, for the benefit of the Member State concerned, of property used to commit the offence of unlawful unloading of goods in transit – Property belonging to a third party)
Date: 2025-02-10
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: case-law (EU), confiscation of property, criminal proceedings, customs fraud, customs transit, right to property, transport under customs control








C_202501870EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/1870


7.4.2025






Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 10 February 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rayonen sad Haskovo – Bulgaria) – Criminal proceedings against MB


(Case C-450/24,
                (1)
Cudu)
                (2)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice - Questions the answer to which may be clearly deduced from the Court’s existing case-law - Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Right to property - Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA - Confiscation of crime-related proceeds, instrumentalities and property - National legislation providing for the confiscation, for the benefit of the Member State concerned, of property used to commit the offence of unlawful unloading of goods in transit - Property belonging to a third party)
(C/2025/1870)
Language of the case: Bulgarian

Referring court

Rayonen sad Haskovo

Criminal proceedings against

MB

Operative part of the order

Article 2(1) of the Council Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA of 24 February 2005 on Confiscation of Crime-Related Proceeds, Instrumentalities and Property, read in conjunction with Article 17(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
must be interpreted as precluding national legislation that permits the confiscation of instrumentalities used to commit the offence of unlawful unloading of goods in transit when those instrumentalities belong to a third party in good faith.


(1)  Date of filing: 26.6.2024
         

(2)  The name of the present case is a fictitious name. It does not correspond to the real name of any party to the proceedings.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/1870/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11575 – REPSOL / BUNGE / BISA)
Date: 2025-02-10
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, agro-industry, economic concentration, energy industry, food industry, gas industry, merger control, oil industry, sale, vegetable oil








C_202503451EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/3451


20.6.2025






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.11575 – REPSOL / BUNGE / BISA)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2025/3451)

On 10 February 2025, 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 32025M11575. 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/2025/3451/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-132/25, M.M. Ristorazione: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione (Italy) lodged on 10 February 2025 – M.M. Ristorazione Srl v Villa Ramazzini Srl
Date: 2025-02-10
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: intellectual property, legal action, limitation of legal proceedings, preliminary issue








C_202502365EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/2365


28.4.2025






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione (Italy) lodged on 10 February 2025 – M.M. Ristorazione Srl v Villa Ramazzini Srl


(Case C-132/25, M.M. Ristorazione)

(C/2025/2365)
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Corte suprema di cassazione

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant and appellant: M.M. Ristorazione Srl

Respondent in the appeal on a point of law: Villa Ramazzini Srl

Question referred

Must Article 9(5) of Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (1) be interpreted as precluding a provision of national law, namely Article 132(4) of Decreto legislativo del 10 febbraio 2005, n. 30 – Codice della proprietà industriale (Legislative Decree No 30 of 10 February 2005 – Italian Industrial Property Code), as amended, under which the requirement for the protective measure to cease to have effect in the event of failure to institute the substantive proceedings within a mandatory time limit, contained in Article 132(3) of the Italian Industrial Property Code, does not apply to interim measures issued pursuant to Article 700 of the codice di procedura civile (Italian Code of Civil Procedure) and to other protective measures capable of anticipating the effects of the judgment on the substance, even though, in such cases, either party may institute the substantive proceedings?


(1)  
            OJ 2004 L 157, p. 45.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2365/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11824 – SIRIS CAPITAL GROUP / EIM / GIGAMON) – Candidate case for simplified procedure
Date: 2025-02-10
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, investment company, merger control, software








C_202500997EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/997


10.2.2025






Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.11824 – SIRIS CAPITAL GROUP / EIM / GIGAMON)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2025/997)


1.   
On 31 January 2025, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1).
This notification concerns the following undertakings:






—


Siris Capital Group, LLC (‘SCG’, United States of America),










—


Elliott Investment Management L.P. (‘EIM’, United States of America).




SCG and EIM will acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) and 3(4) of the Merger Regulation joint control of Gigamon Inc. (‘Gigamon’, United States of America), currently solely controlled by EIM.
The concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.


2.   
The business activities of the undertakings concerned are the following:






—


SCG: private equity firm with portfolio companies active in data, technology and telecommunication,










—


EIM: Investment manager.






3.   

The business activities of the undertaking Gigamon are the following: software provider offering a deep observability pipeline that delivers network-derived insights to cloud, security and observability tools.



4.   
On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the Merger Regulation. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.
Pursuant to the Commission Notice on a simplified treatment for certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (2) it should be noted that this case is a candidate for treatment under the procedure set out in the Notice.


5.   
The Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed operation to the Commission.
Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication. The following reference should always be specified:
M.11824 – SIRIS CAPITAL GROUP / EIM / GIGAMON
Observations can be sent to the Commission by email or by post. Please use the contact details below:
Email: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu

Postal address:





European Commission




Directorate-General for Competition




Merger Registry




1049 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË







(1)  
            OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the ‘Merger Regulation’).

(2)  
            OJ C 160, 5.5.2023, p. 1.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/997/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-131/25, Dris: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (Belgium) lodged on 10 February 2025 – Axel Dris v Gouvernement de la Communauté française
Date: 2025-02-10
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: access to education, dentist, discrimination on the basis of nationality, foreign student, health service, higher education, medical training, physician, right to education








C_202600619EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2026/619


9.2.2026






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (Belgium) lodged on 10 February 2025 – Axel Dris v Gouvernement de la Communauté française


(Case C-131/25, Dris)

(C/2026/619)
Language of the case: French

Referring court

Conseil d’État

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Axel Dris

Defendant: Gouvernement de la Communauté française

Question referred

Are the first paragraph of Article 18 and Article 21(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, read in isolation or in conjunction with Article 165(1) and the second indent of Article 165(2) thereof and with Article 14(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, to be interpreted as precluding a system of quotas for ‘non-resident’ students, such as that established by Article 1 of the Decree of the French Community of 16 June 2006 regulating the number of students in certain undergraduate higher education courses and Articles 1, 6 and 17a of the Decree of the French Community of 29 March 2017 on studies in medical and dental sciences, for access to university medical studies with the aim of maintaining a high-quality medical service and guaranteeing the objectives of quality supervision during training and the protection of public health based on the high proportion of non-resident students who leave the territory at the conclusion of their full medical training?


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/619/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)