The
European Court of Justice was ruling on a dispute between the Portuguese state betting monopoly, Santa Casa, and bwin and the Portugese soccer league.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Britain must allow homosexuals into its military, while the
European Court of Justice ordered Germany to end its ban on women bearing arms in the military.
The Brussels Commercial Court referred to the
European Court of Justice questions on the interpretation of the EU Directive on misleading and comparative advertising (Directive 84/450/EEC as amended by Directive 97/55/EC).
By the time the
European Court of Justice finally delivers its verdict, matters frequently have been overtaken by factual developments.
Less than a month after it came to power, the Government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin has made a gesture of goodwill towards Brussels by announcing that it will soon give up the golden share held by the State in TotalFinaElf, as required by the
European Court of Justice.
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Germany with legal action at the
European Court of Justice because it claims labour protection laws, designed to soften the effect of liberalising the country's ground-handling services, go against EU legislation.
In April, the EC referred Spain to the
European Court of Justice and sent written warnings to France and the United Kingdom for failing to meet the 1998 deadline to identify sensitive water areas.
The
European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled in favor of a law passed by the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia that gave women a preference in public sector jobs.
The names of the European Commission (the governing body of the EU), the European Parliament and the
European Court of Justice remain the same, but the Council of the European Union replaces the Council of Ministers.
Together with the
European Court of Justice, this triumvirate churns out each year close on one million pages of rules, regulations, directives, drafts, position papers, court judgments and the like.
A 1979 decision by the
European Court of Justice interpreting the Treaty of Rome provided, at least with regard to products, the legal basis for the Commission's approach of mutual recognition.
