do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11928 – OAKLEY CAPITAL / EURAZEO / BRIDEWELL)
Date: 2025-04-03
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, information security, information system, information technology, investment company, merger control, provision of services








C_202502261EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/2261


10.4.2025






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.11928 – OAKLEY CAPITAL / EURAZEO / BRIDEWELL)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2025/2261)

On 3 April 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:






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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,










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in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32025M11928. 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/2025/2261/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-807/23, Jones Day: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 April 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof – Austria) – Katharina Plavec v Rechtsanwaltskammer Wien (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Freedom of movement for workers – Article 45 TFEU – Lawyers – Lawyer training – Territorial restrictions – National legislation requiring the completion of part of the training period of a trainee lawyer with a lawyer having his or her registered office in the national territory)
Date: 2025-04-03
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: access to a profession, free movement of workers, freedom of movement, lawyer, professional experience, professional qualifications, recognition of diplomas, recognition of vocational training qualifications, right of establishment








C_202503021EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/3021


10.6.2025






Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 April 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof – Austria) – Katharina Plavec v Rechtsanwaltskammer Wien


(Case C-807/23,
                (1)
Jones Day)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Freedom of movement for workers - Article 45 TFEU - Lawyers - Lawyer training - Territorial restrictions - National legislation requiring the completion of part of the training period of a trainee lawyer with a lawyer having his or her registered office in the national territory)
(C/2025/3021)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Oberster Gerichtshof

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Katharina Plavec

Defendant: Rechtsanwaltskammer Wien

Operative part of the judgment

Article 45 TFEU must be interpreted as precluding legislation of a Member State which requires a specific part of practical training, which is necessary in order to be admitted to practise as a lawyer and during which the trainee lawyer has some power to act as a legal representative before the courts of that Member State, to be completed with a lawyer established in that Member State, while precluding the possibility of that part being completed with a lawyer established in another Member State, even though that lawyer is admitted in the first Member State and the activities carried out in the context of that training relate to the law of that first Member State, and therefore not allowing the persons who have studied law concerned to complete that part of that training period in another Member State on the condition that they prove to the competent national authorities that that part of the training as will be completed by him or her is capable of providing them with training and experience equivalent to that provided by practical training with a lawyer established in the first Member State.


(1)  OJ C C/2024/2409.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/3021/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-701/23, Swiftair: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 3 April 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the tribunal judiciaire de Paris – France) – Criminal proceedings against Swiftair SA (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Principle ne bis in idem – Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement – Article 54 – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Article 50 – Order for provisional dismissal made in a Member State in respect of natural persons deceased and previously employed by a legal person – Criminal proceedings brought against that legal person in another Member State – Inadmissibility)
Date: 2025-04-03
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Schengen Agreement, criminal liability, legal person, principle of double jeopardy, public prosecution, right to justice








C_202503019EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/3019


10.6.2025






Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 3 April 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the tribunal judiciaire de Paris – France) – Criminal proceedings against Swiftair SA


(Case C-701/23,
                (1)
Swiftair)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Principle ne bis in idem - Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement - Article 54 - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Article 50 - Order for provisional dismissal made in a Member State in respect of natural persons deceased and previously employed by a legal person - Criminal proceedings brought against that legal person in another Member State - Inadmissibility)
(C/2025/3019)
Language of the case: French

Referring court

Tribunal judiciaire de Paris

Party in the main criminal proceedings

Swiftair SA

Other parties: Syndicat ALTER, Association AH5017-Ensemble and Others

Operative part of the judgment

The request for a preliminary ruling made by the tribunal judiciaire de Paris (Court of Paris, France), by decision of 4 July 2023, is inadmissible.


(1)  OJ C C/2024/1838.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/3019/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-431/23, Wibra België: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 April 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the tribunal du travail de Liège – Belgium) – AE and Others v BA, acting as insolvency practitioner for WIBRA BELGIË SA and Others (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Social policy – Transfers of undertakings – Safeguarding of employees’ rights – Directive 2001/23/EC – Article 5(1) – Concept of bankruptcy proceedings – Transfer of an undertaking occurring following a declaration of insolvency after that transfer had been prepared in the context of judicial restructuring proceedings)
Date: 2025-04-03
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: financial solvency, judicial proceedings, labour law, liquidation, transfer of businesses, worker consultation, worker information








C_202503016EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/3016


10.6.2025






Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 April 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the tribunal du travail de Liège – Belgium) – AE and Others v BA, acting as insolvency practitioner for WIBRA BELGIË SA and Others


(Case C-431/23,
                (1)
Wibra België)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Social policy - Transfers of undertakings - Safeguarding of employees’ rights - Directive 2001/23/EC - Article 5(1) - Concept of ‘bankruptcy proceedings’ - Transfer of an undertaking occurring following a declaration of insolvency after that transfer had been prepared in the context of judicial restructuring proceedings)
(C/2025/3016)
Language of the case: French

Referring court

Tribunal du travail de Liège

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: AE, CO, DU and Others

Defendants: BA, acting as insolvency practitioner for WIBRA BELGIË SA, EP, acting as insolvency practitioner for WIBRA BELGIË SA, RI, acting as insolvency practitioner for WIBRA BELGIË SA, WIBRA BELGIË SRL

Intersted parties: VT, HL, MO and Others

Operative part of the judgment

Article 5(1) of Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees’ rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses
must be interpreted as applying in a situation where insolvency proceedings follow judicial restructuring proceedings in the course of which an agreement for the partial transfer of the undertaking concerned was prepared, but was not approved by the court having jurisdiction, and was then implemented once the insolvency had been declared, provided that the bankruptcy proceedings or analogous insolvency proceedings, which have been conducted, are actually instituted with a view to the liquidation of the assets of the transferor, that those proceedings are under the supervision of a competent public authority and that recourse to those proceedings cannot be regarded as abusive.


(1)  OJ C C/2023/203.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/3016/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.117248
Date: 2025-04-03
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: France, State aid, animal production, control of State aid, crop production, hunting, mixed economy, permanent crop, service








C_202502038EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/2038


3.4.2025






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.117248
(C/2025/2038)








Date of adoption of the decision


17.2.2025




Aid number


SA.117248




Member State


France




Region


 




Title (title and/or name of the beneficiary)


Aide aux investissements dans les exploitations agricoles liés à l’implantation de haies et d’arbres intraparcellaires 2024-2030




Legal basis


L’instruction technique relative à l’aide à l’implantation de haies et arbres intraparcellaires




Type of measure


Scheme


 




Objective


Agriculture; Forestry; Rural areas, Aid for investment in connection with the processing of agricultural products and the marketing of agricultural products




Form of aid


Direct grant, Other




Budget


Overall budget: 500 000 000  EUR




Intensity


100,0 %




Duration


Until 31.12.2030




Economic sectors


Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities, Growing of non-perennial crops, Growing of perennial crops, Plant propagation, Animal production, Mixed farming, Support activities for crop production




Name and address of the granting authority







Ministère de l’Agriculture, de la Souveraineté alimentaire et de la Forêt




3 rue Barbet de Jouy 75007 Paris








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/2025/2038/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.113721
Date: 2025-04-03
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: Finland, State aid, aid to undertakings, control of State aid








C_202502003EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/2003


3.4.2025






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.113721
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2025/2003)








Date of adoption of the decision


13.1.2025




Aid number


SA.113721




Member State


Finland




Region


Manner-Suomi




Title (title and/or name of the beneficiary)


Aid to promote the transition towards a climate-neutral economy




Legal basis


Act on Discretionary Government Grants 688/2001 (in Finnish: Valtionavustuslaki)




Type of measure


Scheme


 




Objective


Remedy for a serious disturbance in the economy, Environmental protection




Form of aid


Direct grant




Budget


Overall budget: 400 000 000  EUR




Intensity


 




Duration


Until 31.12.2025




Economic sectors


All economic sectors eligible to receive aid




Name and address of the granting authority







Innovaatiorahoituskeskus Business Finland (Innovation Funding Agency Business Finland)




Porkkalankatu 1, Helsinki








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/2025/2003/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-164/24, Cityland: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 3 April 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen sad Veliko Tarnovo – Bulgaria) – Cityland EOOD v Direktor na Direktsia Obzhalvane i danachno-osiguritelna praktika – Veliko Tarnovo (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Common system of value added tax – Directive 2006/112/EC – Persistent failure to comply with tax obligations – Removal of the taxable person from the value added tax (VAT) identification register – Principle of proportionality)
Date: 2025-04-03
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: VAT, direct applicability, interest, principle of legal certainty, principle of proportionality, tax collection, taxpayer








C_202503022EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/3022


10.6.2025






Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 3 April 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen sad Veliko Tarnovo – Bulgaria) – ‘Cityland’ EOOD v Direktor na Direktsia ‘Obzhalvane i danachno-osiguritelna praktika’ – Veliko Tarnovo


(Case C-164/24,
                (1)
Cityland)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Common system of value added tax - Directive 2006/112/EC - Persistent failure to comply with tax obligations - Removal of the taxable person from the value added tax (VAT) identification register - Principle of proportionality)
(C/2025/3022)
Language of the case: Bulgarian

Referring court

Administrativen sad Veliko Tarnovo

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant:
            ‘Cityland’ EOOD

Defendant: Direktor na Direktsia ‘Obzhalvane i danachno-osiguritelna praktika’ – Veliko Tarnovo

Operative part of the judgment

The first subparagraph of Article 213(1) and Article 273 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax, as amended by Council Directive (EU) 2017/2455 of 5 December 2017, and the principles of legal certainty and of proportionality
must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which, as interpreted by the tax authorities and the national courts, provides for the possibility for the competent tax authority to remove a taxable person from the value added tax (VAT) register on the ground of a failure to comply with VAT obligations on that taxable person’s part, without that tax authority analysing the nature of the infringements committed and the conduct of the taxable person at issue.


(1)  OJ C C/2024/3160.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/3022/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Winding-up proceedings – Decision to open winding-up proceedings in respect of the enterprise ELEMENT Insurance AG (Publication made in accordance with Article 280 of Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II))
Date: 2025-04-03
Institutions: Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission
Subjects: Germany, insurance company, judicial proceedings, liquidation








C_202502117EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/2117


3.4.2025






Winding-up proceedings
Decision to open winding-up proceedings in respect of the enterprise ELEMENT Insurance AG


(Publication made in accordance with Article 280 of Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II))


(C/2025/2117)







Insurance undertaking







ELEMENT Insurance AG




Karl-Marx-Allee 3




10178 Berlin








Date, entry into force and type of decision


Decision of 1 March 2025 of Charlottenburg District Court opening insolvency proceedings




Competent authorities







Amtsgericht Charlottenburg [Charlottenburg District Court]




Amtsgerichtsplatz 1




14057 Berlin








Supervisory authority







Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht [Federal Financial Supervisory Authority]




Graurheindorfer Straße 108




53117 Bonn








Administrator appointed







Friedemann Schade, Lawyer




c/o BRL – BOEGE ROHDE LUEBBEHUESEN




Pariser Platz 4 A




10117 Berlin




Tel. +49 30565556-0




Applicable law


German law
Insolvenzordnung (InsO) [Insolvency Code]






ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2117/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.117799
Date: 2025-04-03
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: Bavaria, Germany, State aid, animal production, control of State aid, crop production, farming sector, fishing industry, forestry policy, hunting, service








C_202502021EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/2021


3.4.2025






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.117799
(C/2025/2021)








Date of adoption of the decision


14.2.2025




Aid number


SA.117799




Member State


Germany




Region


Bayern




Title (title and/or name of the beneficiary)


Bayern: Ausgleichszahlungen im Rahmen der Wasserrahmenrichtlinie (WRRL) - Gemeinsame Bekanntmachung der Bayerischen Staatsministerien für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft, Forsten und Tourismus und für Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz




Legal basis


Ausgleichszahlungen im Rahmen der Wasserrahmenrichtlinie (WRRL) - Gemeinsame Bekanntmachung der Bayerischen Staatsministerien für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft, Forsten und Tourismus und für Umwelt und VerbraucherschutzBayerisches WassergesetzBayerisches NaturschutzgesetzBayerische Haushaltsordnung




Type of measure


Scheme


 




Objective


Agriculture; Forestry; Rural areas, Aid for disadvantages related to Natura 2000 areas and to the Water Framework Directive




Form of aid


Direct grant




Budget


Overall budget: 30 000 000  EUR
Annual budget: 6 000 000  EUR




Intensity


100,0 %




Duration


Until 31.12.2030




Economic sectors


AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING, Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities




Name and address of the granting authority







Food, Agriculture and Forestry Offices (Ämter für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten)





www.stmelf.bayern.de/aemter









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/2025/2021/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case C-686/23 P: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 3 April 2025 – CEVA v Commission (Appeal – Specific programme for research and technological development in the field of research into living resources – SEAPURA project – Grant agreement – Audit report by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) – Discovery of fraud or financial irregularities – Claim for reimbursement of the European Union contribution – Debit note – Amount receivable by the European Union – Limitation – Contract governed by Belgian law – Opening, in France, of insolvency proceedings against the debtor – Declaration of claim by the European Commission – Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 – Direct application – Interruption of the limitation period under Belgian law)
Date: 2025-04-03
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU aid, European Anti-fraud Office, claim, contract, eligibility criteria, limitation of legal proceedings, project funding, research programme








C_202503018EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/3018


10.6.2025






Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 3 April 2025 – CEVA v Commission


(Case C-686/23 P)
                (1)

(Appeal - Specific programme for research and technological development in the field of research into living resources - SEAPURA project - Grant agreement - Audit report by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) - Discovery of fraud or financial irregularities - Claim for reimbursement of the European Union contribution - Debit note - Amount receivable by the European Union - Limitation - Contract governed by Belgian law - Opening, in France, of insolvency proceedings against the debtor - Declaration of claim by the European Commission - Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 - Direct application - Interruption of the limitation period under Belgian law)
(C/2025/3018)
Language of the case: French

Parties


Appellant: Centre d’étude et de valorisation des algues SA (CEVA) (represented by: A. Raccah, avocat)

Other parties to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: J. Estrada de Solà and M. Ilkova, acting as Agents, and by E. Bouttier, avocat), SELARL AJIRE, SELARL TCA

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the appeal;










2.


Orders the Centre d’étude et de valorisation des algues SA (CEVA) to bear its own costs relating to the appeal proceedings and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.






(1)  OJ C C/2024/536.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/3018/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)