JURIST

MAY 12, 2021

Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI Committee) Monday approved a sweeping climate change law which aims to achieve climate neutrality in the European Union (EU). ” The board would be made up of 15 experts serving four-year terms.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2021

The European Parliament Wednesday adopted a legislative initiative report calling on the European Commission to create a “binding EU law that ensures companies are held accountable and liable when they harm—or contribute to harming—human rights, the environment, and good governance.”

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2022

The European Council (EC) and the European Union (EU) Parliament Saturday reached a provisional political agreement on the Digital Services Act (DSA), a landmark internet law proposed by the EC in 2020. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen praised the agreement, saying: .

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JURIST

APRIL 28, 2021

The European Parliament passed the first post-Brexit trade deal with the UK Wednesday—the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. The deal was agreed to on December 31, 2020, and was ratified by the European Parliament on April 28 by a vote of 660 for, five against.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Other stakeholders such as the United Nations have also filed written submission with the Tribunal.

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2022

The European Parliament Monday released a report from a year-long conference among EU citizens spelling out 49 proposed changes for the EU. The conference was a joint undertaking of the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission to incorporate citizen input from across all 27 nations of the EU.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2024

The report focuses on the Ecuadorian government’s failure to address the issue and stop activities such as flaring, which are harmful to the environment and the need to protect affected communities. The report, titled “The Amazon is burning, the future is burning!,” The pledge was joined by 158 countries, including Ecuador.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 11, 2025

Several States, including Costa Rica , El Salvador , Ghana , Mexico , Slovenia , and Spain (among others), emphasized the relevance of the right to a healthy environment to address the legal questions at hand. Cameroon even urged the ICJ to confirm the existence of the right to a healthy environment as a customary international law norm.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2025

Czech Republic ), finding that the European Union (EU)s commitment to reduce emissions by 55 percent by 2030 is a collective obligation, not an individual one for Czechia. Instead, the Court derived Czechias obligation from the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of the European Union ( EUs NDC ).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

However, many companies are already taking steps to comply with the rule, given the lead time necessary to prepare and verify the required disclosures, and given more extensive disclosure requirements that will apply to many companies in other jurisdictions, including California and the European Union.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2024

The General Court of the European Union (GC) on Wednesday ruled that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, qualifies as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which subjects the company to stricter regulations aimed at ensuring fair competition and user rights. Failure to comply could result in significant fines.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 24, 2025

An Bord Pleanala how planning considerations should be interpreted in light of Irelands domestic climate framework, European Union (EU) law, and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) obligations. The High Court further noted that the recent European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decision in KlimaSeniorinnen v.

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JURIST

JUNE 26, 2024

Last month, the European Union reinforced the regulation by approving a new law to regulate CO2 emissions of heavy-duty vehicles to a stricter standard. The parties included Agriculture & Food, Denmark’s Nature Conservation Association, Food Federation NNF, Dansk Metal, Dansk Industry and KL.

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JURIST

MAY 13, 2024

Numerous provisions of the IMA were under challenge during the proceedings, and the applicants asserted that these sections were incompatible with the Windsor Framework and section 7A of the European Union Withdrawal Act 2018.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The European Commission voted Friday to refer Romania back to the Court of Justice of the European Union, alleging that Romania had failed to fully comply with a 2018 Court of Justice judgment ordering Romania to fulfill its obligations under the Landfill Directive.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

It also provides measures to retain local jobs and “ensure clean air and access to water, and will better protect the environment on both sides of the border.” The EU’s top court then ordered Poland “to pay the European Commission a daily penalty payment of €500 000.”

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2024

A joint statement by the European Union Delegation and the Embassies of Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States urged Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov to not sign the bill into law. The draft law has been strongly criticized by human rights activists, foreign governments and NGOs around the world.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The record number of doctoral students and outstanding three-member panels will provide an internationally diverse environment for discussion of various legal topics. The programme is available here , and next to each session there is a corresponding link.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Tim Engelhardt, Human Rights Officer at the UNHCR’s Rule of Law and Democracy Section, said the threat was getting worse, and called for an expansion of existing European Union rules requiring social media companies to report on how their software was being used. “We

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

Accordingly, Greek authorities are now preparing the regulation to be implemented following the European Union (EU) Commission’s approval. Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis has announced a new visa program for Turkish tourists, which would make it possible to apply for a 7-day visa at the door for 10 Greek islands.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Ministry of the Environment appealed on points of law to the Supreme Administrative Court. Standing issues in the European Union. At the European Union (EU), two decisions from 2022 expand on the issue of standing in climate cases. The European Parliament and the Council ). In Deutsche Umwelthilfe v.

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The Fashion Law

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the current climate, there is a growing demand from investors and other stakeholders that companies take into account the impact of their business operations on the environment, society, and the economy, and they want companies’ boards to actively engage in integrating sustainability into the long-term strategy.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 8, 2022

The right to a healthy environment was previously recognized in the Italian constitution by means of interpretation of Article 32 on the right to health. Adopting a comparative perspective, we draw on constitutional frameworks and recent climate litigation cases in other European jurisdictions. What does the reform bring about?

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JURIST

JUNE 5, 2023

” Countries including the United States, Canada, European Union members and Australia are regarded as “unfriendly” in connection with sanctions imposed over the conflict in Ukraine. Peskov stated “Yes, indeed. It was decided not to accredit media outlets from unfriendly countries to the SPIEF this time.”

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Accelerated pathways for regulatory approvals for psychedelic drugs in the European Union, U.K. and Australia is indispensable to facilitate a seamless advancement of treatments from the research environment to the consumer, say Kimberly Chew at Husch Blackwell, and Ana Dukic and Sabrina Ramkellawan at AxialBridge.

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APRIL 13, 2022

The joint study released in March also discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing problems by opening new opportunities for illicit trade.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

The new legislation is designed to impose new wide-ranging environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) due diligence requirements on the whole value chain of companies established or operating in the European Union.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It takes place in the context of the European Law School’s Summer Academy. We invite early career researchers (doctoral and postdoctoral) working in European Union law to come together and to discuss responses to the most pressing crises currently facing the European Union, its Member states, and citizens.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

These considerations are equally important for individuals and legal entities, as getting effective access to justice in a reasonable time is a crucial aspect of the right to a fair trial, as enshrined in Article 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the Charter). What are the main elements of the proposal?

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This event brought together academics and practitioners from several European, North and South American countries and resulted in the publication of a book in 2017 by the Society. In this sense, the next stage of this debate could be that of the opportunity of adopting a European regulation on the matter.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

European Union agreement to soften the brunt of steel and aluminum tariffs should provide a lift to trans-Atlantic trade relations, but will also require companies to navigate a new compliance environment in critical industrial sectors.

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JULY 5, 2021

For those countries (except for a minority that also recognise adoption) kafalah is the preeminent child care measure for children without a family environment or with one that is at risk of breakdown. The kafalah is widely applied in countries whose legal system is based on or influenced by Sharia law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The court ruled that by failing to take sufficient climate action to protect the life and privacy of the plaintiffs, the defendants were in breach of their obligations under Articles 2 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, the court declined to set specific reduction targets on separation of powers grounds.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has released a new report urging police chiefs and law enforcement agencies to prepare to face the challenges of law enforcement within the metaverse. Europol researchers cite claims that the metaverse stands poised to become “next iteration of the internet.”

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JURIST

JUNE 17, 2024

Austria’s largest party announced Monday that it will challenge the newly passed Council of the European Union regulation seeking to restore EU ecosystems. The regulation was passed with the support of Austrian Climate Minister Leonore Gewessler.

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JURIST

APRIL 30, 2021

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court held Thursday that several provisions in the country’s Federal Climate Change Act of 2019 were insufficient and violate freedoms in the Basic Law. The court described the idea of climate change having severe impacts that affect virtually all aspects of human life.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 12, 2023

Having in mind this link between the oceans and climate change, it would be natural for the United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to provide a clear picture of States’ obligations to protect and preserve the marine environment in the context of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change. cit., §§ 40-41).

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