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Opinion 2/13 (EU Accession to the ECHR)

The Court of Justice delivers its opinion on the draft agreement on the accession of the European Union to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and identifies problems with regard to its compatibility with EU law.
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Procura della Repubblica v M

Following a thorough criminal investigation, the judicial authorities of one Member State (Belgium) refused a request to send the person under investigation for trial and instead made a finding of...
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Zoran Spasic

The rule, in the Schengen Area, restricting the application of the ne bis in idem principle to cases in which the penalty imposed in a Member State has been enforced or is actually in the process...
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Commission vs. Parliament and Council (road safety related traffic offences)

The Court annuls the directive on cross-border exchange of information on road safety related traffic offenses, considering that both in respect of its aim and its content, the directive is a...
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Digital Rights Ireland

The Court of Justice declares the Data Retention Directive to be invalid. It entails a wide-ranging and particularly serious interference with the fundamental rights to respect for private life...
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Hani El Sayyed Elsebai Yusef

By Commission Regulation (EC) No 1629/2005 of 5 October 2005, the applicant’s name was added to the list in Annex I of Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 of 27 May 2002 and his assets and other...
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Marián Baláž

The term ‘court having jurisdiction in particular in criminal matters’, set out in Article 1(a)(iii) of Council Framework Decision 2005/214/JHA of 24 February 2005 on the application of the...
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