Europe – By judgment of 18 June 2025, the General Court of the EU considered that a Union institution, receiving a request for access to a document, cannot justify its refusal to disclose it on the basis of the exception relating to the protection of commercial interests when the information contained in this document constitutes information which “relates to emissions into the environment”
HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats By judgment of 18 June 2025 (T-222/23 – Arysta Lifescience v. European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the General Court of the EU held that an EU institution, receiving a request for access to a document,...
Europe – The European Commission unveiled its European Oceans Pact on June 5, 2025
HAVET & VANHUFFEL – Association d’avocats On June 5, 2025, the European Commission unveiled the outlines of its European Oceans Pact. This document contains a comprehensive strategy on maritime issues aimed at « better protecting the oceans, promoting...
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...