do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Case C-72/23 P: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 March 2025 – Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) v Council of the European Union (Appeal – Common foreign and security policy – Combating terrorism – Restrictive measures taken against certain persons and entities – Freezing of funds – Common Position 2001/931/CFSP – Article 1(3), (4) and (6) – Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 – Article 2(3) – Maintenance of an organisation on the list of persons, groups and entities involved in terrorist acts – Applicability to situations of armed conflict – Terrorist group – Nature of, and underlying reasons for, the acts carried out – Distance in time – Ongoing risk of involvement in terrorist activities – Proportionality – Obligation to state reasons)
Date: 2025-03-13
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, economic sanctions, freezing of assets, international sanctions, legal person, principle of proportionality, terrorism, war








C_202502493EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
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C/2025/2493


12.5.2025






Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 March 2025 – Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) v Council of the European Union


(Case C-72/23 P)
                (1)

(Appeal - Common foreign and security policy - Combating terrorism - Restrictive measures taken against certain persons and entities - Freezing of funds - Common Position 2001/931/CFSP - Article 1(3), (4) and (6) - Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 - Article 2(3) - Maintenance of an organisation on the list of persons, groups and entities involved in terrorist acts - Applicability to situations of armed conflict - Terrorist group - Nature of, and underlying reasons for, the acts carried out - Distance in time - Ongoing risk of involvement in terrorist activities - Proportionality - Obligation to state reasons)
(C/2025/2493)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Appellant: Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) (represented by: A.M. van Eik and T. Buruma, advocaten)

Other parties to the proceedings: Council of the European Union (represented by: B. Driessen, S. Van Overmeire and M.-C. Cadilhac, acting as Agents)

supported by: French Republic (represented: initially by J.-L. Carré, B. Fodda and W. Zemamta, acting as Agents, and subsequently by J.-L. Carré, B. Fodda and E. Timmermans, acting as Agents, and finally by B. Fodda, E. Timmermans and B. Travard, acting as Agents)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the appeal;










2.


Orders the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union;










3.


Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs.






(1)  
            OJ C 127, 11.4.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2493/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11867 – DAIKIN / COPELAND / C-D COMPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES JV)
Date: 2025-03-13
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: United States, air conditioning, economic concentration, heating, merger control, refrigeration industry, thermal equipment, wholesale trade








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Official Journal of the European Union


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C/2025/1958


28.3.2025






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.11867 – DAIKIN / COPELAND / C-D COMPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES JV)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2025/1958)

On 13 March 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 32025M11867. 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/2025/1958/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-589/23, Cassella-med and MCM Klosterfrau: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 13 March 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof – Germany) – Cassella-med GmbH & Co. KG, MCM Klosterfrau Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH v Verband Sozialer Wettbewerb eV (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Medicinal products for human use – Directive 2001/83/EC – Article 1(2)(b) – Concept of medicinal product by function – Concept of pharmacological action – Binding of a substance, in a reversible manner, to bacteria to prevent them from adhering to human cells – Article 2(2) – Applicable legal framework – Classification as a medical device or as a medicinal product – Medical devices – Directive 93/42/EEC – Article 1(2)(a) – Concept of medical device)
Date: 2025-03-13
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: medicinal product, microorganism, pharmacology








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C/2025/2497


12.5.2025






Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 13 March 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof – Germany) – Cassella-med GmbH & Co. KG, MCM Klosterfrau Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH v Verband Sozialer Wettbewerb eV


(Case C-589/23,
                (1)
Cassella-med and MCM Klosterfrau)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Medicinal products for human use - Directive 2001/83/EC - Article 1(2)(b) - Concept of ‘medicinal product by function’ - Concept of ‘pharmacological action’ - Binding of a substance, in a reversible manner, to bacteria to prevent them from adhering to human cells - Article 2(2) - Applicable legal framework - Classification as a ‘medical device’ or as a ‘medicinal product’ - Medical devices - Directive 93/42/EEC - Article 1(2)(a) - Concept of ‘medical device’)
(C/2025/2497)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundesgerichtshof

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: Cassella-med GmbH & Co. KG, MCM Klosterfrau Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH

Defendant: Verband Sozialer Wettbewerb eV

Operative part of the judgment

Article 1(2)(b) of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use, as amended by Directive 2004/27/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004,
must be interpreted as meaning that a substance which, by means of a reversible binding to bacteria, prevents the bacteria from adhering to human cells must be regarded as exerting a ‘pharmacological action’ within the meaning of that provision.


(1)  OJ C C/2024/706.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2497/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-135/24, John Cockerill: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 March 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de première instance de Liège – Belgium) – John Cockerill SA v État belge (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member States – Directive 2011/96/EU – Article 1(4) – Prevention of tax evasion, tax fraud or abuse – Article 4(1) – Prohibition on taxing profits received – Direct effect – Inclusion of the dividend distributed by the subsidiary in the parent company’s tax base – Deduction of the distributed dividend from the tax base of the parent company – Limitation of the deduction – Intra-group transfer scheme allowing profits made by certain companies to be transferred to others)
Date: 2025-03-13
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: basis of tax assessment, corporation tax, group of companies, parent company, profit, subsidiary, tax law, tax offence, tax relief








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Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/2501


12.5.2025






Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 March 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de première instance de Liège – Belgium) – John Cockerill SA v État belge


(Case C-135/24,
                (1)
John Cockerill)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member States - Directive 2011/96/EU - Article 1(4) - Prevention of tax evasion, tax fraud or abuse - Article 4(1) - Prohibition on taxing profits received - Direct effect - Inclusion of the dividend distributed by the subsidiary in the parent company’s tax base - Deduction of the distributed dividend from the tax base of the parent company - Limitation of the deduction - Intra-group transfer scheme allowing profits made by certain companies to be transferred to others)
(C/2025/2501)
Language of the case: French

Referring court

Tribunal de première instance de Liège

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: John Cockerill SA

Defendant: État belge

Operative part of the judgment

Article 1(4) and Article 4(1) of Council Directive 2011/96/EU of 30 November 2011 on the common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member States, as amended by Council Directive (EU) 2015/121 of 27 January 2015,
must be interpreted as precluding legislation of a Member State that provides that dividends received by a parent company from its subsidiary must first be included in the tax base of the subsidiary, before they can subsequently be deducted, without that deduction applying to the amount of an intra-group transfer included in the tax base.


(1)  OJ C C/2024/3313.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2501/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-44/23 P: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 March 2025 – Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) v Council of the European Union (Appeal – Common foreign and security policy – Combating terrorism – Restrictive measures taken against certain persons and entities – Freezing of funds – Common Position 2001/931/CFSP – Article 1(3), (4) and (6) – Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 – Article 2(3) – Maintenance of an organisation on the list of persons, groups and entities involved in terrorist acts – Applicability to situations of armed conflict – Terrorist group – Nature of, and underlying reasons for, the acts carried out – Distance in time – Ongoing risk of involvement in terrorist activities – Proportionality – Obligation to state reasons)
Date: 2025-03-13
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, economic sanctions, freezing of assets, international sanctions, legal person, principle of proportionality, terrorism, war








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C series













C/2025/2492


12.5.2025






Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 March 2025 – Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) v Council of the European Union


(Case C-44/23 P)
                (1)

(Appeal - Common foreign and security policy - Combating terrorism - Restrictive measures taken against certain persons and entities - Freezing of funds - Common Position 2001/931/CFSP - Article 1(3), (4) and (6) - Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 - Article 2(3) - Maintenance of an organisation on the list of persons, groups and entities involved in terrorist acts - Applicability to situations of armed conflict - Terrorist group - Nature of, and underlying reasons for, the acts carried out - Distance in time - Ongoing risk of involvement in terrorist activities - Proportionality - Obligation to state reasons)
(C/2025/2492)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Appellant: Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) (represented by: A.M. van Eik and T. Buruma, advocaten)

Other parties to the proceedings: Council of the European Union (represented by: B. Driessen, S. Van Overmeire and M.-C. Cadilhac, acting as Agents), European Commission (represented by: C. Giolito, J. Norris and L. Puccio, acting as Agents), French Republic (represented initially by J.-L. Carré, B. Fodda and W. Zemamta, acting as Agents, and subsequently by J.-L. Carré and B. Fodda, acting as Agents, and finally by B. Fodda and B. Travard, acting as Agents), Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by: M. Bulterman, J. Langer and J.M. Hoogveld, acting as Agents)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the appeal;










2.


Orders the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union;










3.


Orders the European Commission, the French Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to bear their own costs.






(1)  
            OJ C 112, 27.3.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2492/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Euro exchange rates – 12 March 2025
Date: 2025-03-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate, money








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Official Journal of the European Union


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C series













C/2025/1505


13.3.2025






Euro exchange rates (1)


            12 March 2025
         
(C/2025/1505)


1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,0886 




JPY


Japanese yen


162,23 




DKK


Danish krone


7,4591 




GBP


Pound sterling


0,84078 




SEK


Swedish krona


10,9765 




CHF


Swiss franc


0,9619 




ISK


Iceland króna


146,50 




NOK


Norwegian krone


11,6085 




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558 




CZK


Czech koruna


25,013 




HUF


Hungarian forint


399,78 




PLN


Polish zloty


4,1955 




RON


Romanian leu


4,9774 




TRY


Turkish lira


39,8526 




AUD


Australian dollar


1,7297 




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,5684 




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


8,4579 




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,9056 




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,4527 




KRW


South Korean won


1 580,65 




ZAR


South African rand


20,0248 




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


7,8848 




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


17 929,24 




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


4,8230 




PHP


Philippine peso


62,449 




RUB


Russian rouble


 




THB


Thai baht


36,855 




BRL


Brazilian real


6,3587 




MXN


Mexican peso


22,0364 




INR


Indian rupee


94,9275 






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


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/1505/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)