(53.) See, e.g., Hjalte Rasmussen, On Law And Policy In The European Court of Justice 354-56 (1986) (discussing a court packing plan proposed by Valery Giscard d'Estaing in 1980); Alter, supra note 47, at 130 (discussing proposals by British Conservatives in 1991 and 1995 that call for limits to the jurisdiction of the
ECJ and the establishment of a political body that could veto its rulings).
The case then progressed to the Court of Appeal and was referred to the
ECJ to clarify the wider meaning of 'establishment'.
In its 2004 judgement, the
ECJ ruled against Belgium on the grounds that 114 agglomerations in the Flemish Region, 60 agglomerations in the Walloon Region, and the Brussels-Capital Region had failed to comply with the requirements of Directive 91/271 concerning urban waste-water treatment (Case C-27/03).
Monday the Bulgarian President met with an official
ECJ delegation led by Court President Vassilios Skouris, which is visiting Bulgaria on the invitation of Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassation.
26 October 2011 - Angel Biotechnology Holdings Plc (LON:ABH), the British supplier of biological products for the pharmaceutical industry, said that the recent ruling by the European Court of Justice (
ECJ) on patents involving human embryonic stem cells would not affect its operations.
The
ECJ ruling is still likely to have major implications for how sporting broadcast rights are sold both in Britain and across Europe in the future, but the case first has to return to the High Court.
Cologne -based political economist Fritz Scharpf even calls for a boycott of the judgements: "the only way is not to follow the
ECJ" (Scharpf 2008: 19 ff.).
261/2004 ("the Guidelines") as a guidance document for EU national enforcement bodies (invariably the Civil Aviation Authority of each EU country) with a view to offering clarity on the enforcement of existing passenger rights' legislation, and to provide a summary of the various decisions of the
ECJ. It is clear that, in the last two years, decisions from EU Member State courts, as well as the
ECJ, appear to be increasingly following the 'passenger rights' focused approach as suggested by the Guidelines when interpreting EC 261.
The
ECJ, which rules on the meaning of EU law, hopes to make a decision on the case before Christmas, a source close to the case told Reuters on Thursday.