Europe – Poland – The Court of Justice of the European Union held, by judgment of 5 June 2025 (Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów i Kanalizacji w m.st. Warszawie v. Veolia Water Technologies and others – C 82/24) that the principle of equal treatment and the obligation of transparency as referred to in Article 10 of Directive 2004/17/EC of 31 March 2004 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors, must be interpreted as precluding the application by analogy to a works contract, by virtue of a case-law interpretation, of provisions of national law governing the guarantee in sales contracts whose content has not been expressly specified either in the tender documents or in this works contract, when the applicability of such provisions is not sufficiently clear and foreseeable for a reasonably informed and normally diligent tenderer
HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats The Regional Court of Warsaw (Poland) had, in the context of a dispute, by decision of 21 December 2023, referred a preliminary question concerning the interpretation of Article 2 of Directive 2004/18/EC of the...
Europe – Greece – By judgment of 5 June 2025 (Commission v. Greece – C‑359/24), the Court of Justice of the European Union finds the Hellenic Republic in breach of obligations for not having updated the management plans for its river basin districts and its flood risk management plans within the time limits prescribed by Directives 2000/60/EC of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy and 2007/60/EC of 23 October 2007 on the assessment and management of flood risks
HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats This is an action for failure to fulfil obligations brought by the Commission against the Hellenic Republic. On 15 February 2023, the Commission sent the Hellenic Republic a letter of formal notice stating...
Europe – On 28 May 2025, the European Union ratified the ‘Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction’ treaty (BBNJ Treaty)
HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats On 28 May 2025, the European Union and six of its Member States – Cyprus, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Portugal and Slovenia – ratified the International Treaty on the High Seas (BBNJ). This text,...