The repeal of Article 293 after the Lisbon Treaty has no impact on the compatibility of bilateral conventions with EU law: it simply removes
the obligation for Member States to enter into negotiation to conclude such conventions.
In addition, to underline the necessity to impose effective criminal penalties, the Court recalls
the obligation for the Member States, under Article 2 (1) of the 1995 PIF Convention, to protect the financial interests of the EU by effective, proportionate and dissuasive criminal penalties and clearly includes VAT fraud in its definition of PIF fraud.
Not exact matches
«The promptness of the German authorities» intervention following our complaint - points out the President of the Consortium, Nicola Bertinelli - is related to the fact that, after years of legal action, we obtained European Union legislation that leaves no room
for doubt regarding protection, and which also includes the
obligation of «ex officio» PDO protection in all EU
member states, which have direct responsibility in terms of vigilance.»
IBFAN is opposed to all claims on foods
for infants and young children and is urging
Member States to fulfil their
obligations to protect child health (and prevent childhood obesity) before authorising any new claims.
The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has given its backing to plans
for a European Taxpayer Code to set out common tax principles and taxpayer rights and
obligations, which EU
member states would be encouraged to adopt.
International legal
obligations and EU
member states» proclaimed high aspirations
for human rights aside, there are also good reasons to see international migration as an economically positive phenomenon.
(v) to encourage
Member States to involve national parliaments in line with their respective constitutional
obligations, to provide all the necessary support
for Member States to fulfil this task and to strengthen outreach to national parliaments, in order to keep national parliaments adequately informed on the ongoing negotiations;
to encourage
Member States to involve national parliaments in line with their respective constitutional
obligations, to provide all the necessary support
for Member States to fulfil this task and to strengthen outreach to national parliaments, in order to keep national parliaments adequately informed on the ongoing negotiations;
The law provides a mechanism
for local school board
members to be directly involved in the development of
State plans and the Department has an
obligation to ensure that the minimum legal requirements of the law are met.
European Union Emissions Trading Scheme — a market - based «cap and trade» system
for GHGs adopted by European Union
member states in January 2005 in advance of their
obligations under the Kyoto Protocol
Any delay in obtaining the refugee status would not discharge the
Member States from the
obligation to give a right to entry and residence to the parents of a young refugee who has applied
for international protection before reaching the age of eighteen.
Its main point, if we still think of it that way, would be the possibility of negotiating temporary provisions extending the scope of certain EU provisions (
for example the four freedoms or some of them, or budget rights and
obligations) to the «future former»
Member State for a certain amount of time.
At least in theory, Article 3 (1) of the Directive was also capable of having direct effect: the provision provided
for a certain margin of discretion
for Member States as to the measures taken to implement the
obligations of the Directive; however,
Member States still were compelled to take into account all employees in their calculations (para 33 - 34).
No general
obligation exists
for Member States to halt national ratification of mixed agreements when their compatibility with EU is questioned before the CJEU.
This was a very clear political choice influenced by past experiences of the EU political bodies and the
Member States in having their domestic measures challenged
for non-conformity with international
obligations.
Private parties that saw themselves burdened with unforeseen
obligations as a consequence should start an action
for damages against the
Member State having incorrectly implemented the directive in question according to the Advocate General.
This includes taking all legislative and administrative measures appropriate
for ensuring collection of VAT in conformity with the
obligations imposed on
Member States by the EU VAT Directive (Directive 2006 / 112 / EC) and its predecessors (amongst which the Sixth Directive, 1977 / 388 / EEC).
Does the Court — limiting our examination here to the present case — have a legitimate reason to differentiate between the
obligations resulting from the Convention
for the
Member States and those
for the EU?
It draws consequences from Åkerberg Fransson C - 617 / 10 (already commented on this blog here and here), but this time goes in another direction as it extends the
obligation of
Member States in the field of criminal law
for a more effective penalisation at the expense of national criminal procedure.
In its Taricco I judgment (analysed previously by M. Lassalle on this blog), the ECJ decided that national courts must disapply the rules of statutes of limitations periods
for the duration of criminal proceedings pending before a court, if such rules were liable to have an adverse effect on fulfilling by the
Member States their
obligations under Article 325 TFEU.
According to the Court, this principle imposes a legal
obligation upon EU
Member States to act
for the benefit of other
Member States even when such actions are not in their own interest (para. 291 of the Judgment).
At the same time, according to him, «it can not be automatically assumed that Treaty provisions which impose on
Member States a precise and unconditional
obligation as to the result to be achieved, as is the case
for Article 325 (1) and (2) TFEU, automatically fulfil, in each and every situation, the requirement of foreseeability required by the principles of legality and legal certainty» (para. 176).
There are quality, fee - based continuing legal education programs that lawyers can attend or view, but in this era of tightening purses, it's prudent to check out affordable alternatives to satisfy some of your CLE
obligations Provisions
for free continuing legal education
for bar
members are baked into the rules of some
states like Florida,
«RECALLING the
obligations of the Contracting
Member States under the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), including the
obligation of sincere cooperation as set out in Article 4 (3) TEU and the
obligation to ensure through the Unified Patent Court the full application of, and respect
for, Union law in their respective territories and the judicial protection of an individual's rights under that law;
Turning to the substance of the case, the General Court held that the
obligation to
state reasons
for an act adversely affecting a person constitutes an essential principle of EU law and may only be derogated from
for compelling reasons touching upon the security of the Union or its
Members.
The directive also provides
for an express derogation
for the
Member States from their
obligations under article 11 (the equal treatment principle).
All
Member States should be mandated to publish a public call, then to put forward a list of at least three candidates
for each judicial position, selected on the basis of a number of additional
obligations regarding gender balance, management skills and professional background of the applicants.
The reduction of their territory would not have any effects on their
obligations under EU law, since the definition of territory is a matter
for Member States and not
for EU law (Case 148/77 Hansen v Hauptzollamt Flensburg, consider also the case of German reunification).
In my opinion the ECJ's decision in Taricco I that national courts must disapply the rules of statutes of limitations if they prevent
Member States from fulfilling their
obligations under Article 325 TFEU (in the present case, the relevant Italian legislation) leads to perceiving serious fraud as a crime against the rights and interests of citizens, i.e., against fundamental social human rights guaranteed under Articles 2 and 3 of the Italian Constitution, and hence calls
for resolving the conflict within the Italian Constitution by balancing the rights under these articles and the accused's individual rights guaranteed by the legality principle (Art. 25 (2) Const.).
The draft agreement provides according to the Court
for an
obligation of
Member States to check the observance of all other party states even if they are EU Member States (para
States to check the observance of all other party
states even if they are EU Member States (para
states even if they are EU
Member States (para
States (para 194).
In the paper I argue that if the question of revocation is directly relevant
for a
Member State court to decide a case, then the CJEU may indeed find an
obligation to refer.
«provision imposes an
obligation on the
Member States to confer a certain advantage, compared with applications
for entry and residence of other nationals of third
States, on applications submitted by persons who have a relationship of particular dependence with a Union citizen.»
However, the Advocate General suggested that the party suffering damage from being under such an unforeseen
obligation could still claim damages against the
Member State for the damages resulting from the violation of EU law by the national implementing act.
Sections 1 to 9 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 enable the secretary of
state to make a control order against an individual where she has reasonable grounds
for suspecting that individual is or has been involved in terrorism - related activity and it is necessary to impose
obligations on that individual
for purposes connected with protecting
members of the public from a risk of terrorism.
Given the CFSP and the internal market
for the movement of capital, the
Member States used the Union, in particular CFSP instruments and (former Community) regulations, to comply with those
obligations.
This is not to say that it is probable that the Court will simply rule that because of the applicability of the Charter to visa applications made in accordance with the Visa Code,
Member States are under an
obligation to issue LTVs to third country nationals who want to come to any EU
Member State to file an application
for international protection.
To my mind, on a proper interpretation of the basic constitutional structure of the compound comprising the Union and the
Member States, which has been described as the «European Verfassungsverbund», (11) it is, as a rule,
for the
Member States themselves, in the context of their own constitutional order and the international
obligations which they have entered into, to review acts of their public authorities.
But when applying that test to the facts, the Court observed that the national (Swedish) measure was connected (in part) to infringements of the VAT Directive, and therefore was designed to implement an
obligation imposed on the
Member States by EU law «to impose effective penalties
for conduct prejudicial to the financial interests of the European Union».
MAR requires that appropriate measures, including policies and procedures, are put in place to ensure compliance,
for example in respect of additional disclosure requirements, the preparation of insider lists and reporting of transactions involving persons discharging managerial responsibilities within the issuer (PDMRs)(which can have a de minimis threshold in certain
Member States as low as $ 5,000 to trigger the reporting
obligation) and the maintenance of lists of such PDMRs and any associated persons.
In its Judgment of 20 December 2017 in Global Starnet, C - 322 / 16, EU: C: 2017:985, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) followed the Opinion of AG Wahl and clarified that a national court of last instance is under an Art 267 TFEU
obligation to refer a question
for preliminary ruling to the CJEU even if the constitutional court of that
Member State has already assessed the constitutionality of national rules in the light of regulatory parameters with content similar to rules under EU law.
In the present case, since it is apparent from paragraphs 29 and 30 above that neither Directive 2004/17 nor its underlying general principles impose on
Member States a specific
obligation to lay down provisions requiring the contracting entity to grant its contractual partner an upwards price review after the award of a contract, the provisions of Legislative Decree No 163/2006 at issue in the main proceedings, in so far as they do not provide
for periodic price review within the sectors covered by that directive, do not have any connection with that directive and can not, therefore, be regarded as implementing EU law (C - 152 / 17, paras 33 - 35, references omitted and emphases added).
The Commission's subsequent consideration and follow - up to the Initiative, coupled with the
obligation to publicise under Article 10, could then provide an important occasion
for the institution that functions as the «guardian of the Treaties» to consider in - depth the possibility of the decoupling of Union citizenship from
Member State nationality in the face of such seismic upheaval
for those citizens who will be affected negatively by Brexit.
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obligations under «business to business» contracts (whether a supplier or a buyer) and under «business to consumer» contracts, which continue to be subject to rapid change as the EU strives to achieve a uniform framework
for consumers irrespective of the
member state in which they reside.
The rights and
obligations arising from agreements concluded before 1 January 1958 or,
for acceding
States, before the date of their accession, between one or more
Member States on the one hand, and one or more third countries on the other, shall not be affected by the provisions of this Treaty.
Before a
Member State brings an action against another
Member State for an alleged infringement of an
obligation under this Treaty, it shall bring the matter before the Commission.
The ECJ's decision that national courts must disapply the rules of statutes of limitations if they prevent
Member States from fulfilling their
obligations under Article 325 TFEU (in the present case, the relevant Italian legislation) leads to perceiving serious fraud as a crime against the rights and interests of citizens, i.e., against fundamental social human rights guaranteed under Arts. 2 and 3 Const., and hence calls
for resolving the conflict within the Italian Constitution by balancing the rights under these articles and the accused's individual rights guaranteed by the legality principle (Art. 25 Const.)
The Indiana
State Bar Association's House of Delegates has declared that «all Indiana lawyers have an ethical and a social
obligation to provide uncompensated legal assistance to poor persons» and adopted an aspirational goal of fifty hours a year, or an equivalent financial contribution,
for each
member of the bar.
As with Schengen visas, there will be a possibility to issue a a travel authorisation with limited territorial validity, «when that
Member State considers it necessary on humanitarian grounds in accordance with national law,
for reasons of national interest or because of international
obligations» even if the travel authorisation has not yet finished or has been refused, annulled or revoked.
In this way, ABA
members meet their professional
obligation to improve the quality of justice in the United
States, while providing important insurance protection
for themselves and their families.
However,
Member States do not have an
obligation to ensure that ADR entities offer procedures
for the out - of - court resolution of these disputes (section 2 (4)-RRB-.