Internal Market

In July 2024, a French startup filed the first-ever application for a novel food authorisation of a cultivated meat product in the EU. We discuss the potential for “legal disruption” considering the controversial debate on the societal and economic impact of this technology.

This blog post argues that the failure to approve the CSDDD by the Council under the guise of protecting companies is counterproductive and represents a missed opportunity in mitigating climate change.

This post aims to place the Google Ireland and Others judgment and the debate it sparked in the broader picture of public policy exceptions to EU rules in internal market law.

This post reflects on citizen jury as the possible form of public participation regarding the regulation on new genomic techniques.

This post argues that a ban on fossil advertising is a necessary, albeit insufficient, measure in the urgent quest to curb climate change—and importantly, it is perfectly legal.

This post examines the Court’s evaluation of the permissible restrictions on EU citizens’ freedom of movement in the name of protecting public health during a pandemic.

This post examines the necessity of the Green Claims Directive.

This post calls for clearer EU-structured soft law guidance on coordination possibilities in order to envisage coordination initiatives between Member States' different competent authorities.

This post discusses the French and Italian provisions banning names of meat-based products from their plant-based countrparts, and their compatibility with EU law.

This post argues that because children are often not mentioned explicitly in the positions taken by the Parliament, the Council and the Commission, it is not clear what effect the AI Act will have for children in AI contexts.

This blogpost argues that a strong legal framework that addresses the power imbalance is necessary to address unsustainable purchasing practices and increase stakeholder engagement.

This post, after a brief overview of the scope and main features of the MiCA Regulation, will make some remarks on two outstanding issues: the doubtful rationale behind the scope of the Regulation, and its choice not to deal with decentralisation.

This post examines two issues in the Commission's Long-Term Resident Directive proposal: the required residence period before labour migrants can receive LTR status as well as the intra-EU mobility rights and additional socio-economic rights that accompany LTR status.

This post explores the effect of the proposal for regulating political advertising might affect freedom of expression, and the legal basis for the proposed regulation.

This post will explore the legal reasoning behind cannabis legalization in Europe, the legal barriers raised by the ECJ and how Germany is trying to circumvent them.

This article provides a brief overview of the AML Package’s most important characteristics, accompanied by commentary on certain aspects of the Proposal. 

This post while situates the case C-709/20 CG within the Union citizenship case law.

This post will analyse the Court’s judgment in the case C-78/18, comment on the importance of the case in the ongoing EU rule of law crisis, and highlight the Court’s approach towards so-called ‘integrated Charter infringements’.

This post will, outline the jurisdiction and the admissibility of the infringement proceeding, discuss the merits of the case, and conclude with some comments on the significance and the potential outcome of the proceedings.

This post seeks briefly to summarise the background and the Political Declaration before outlining the sides’ opening negotiation gambits and noting three paradoxes.

This post discusses the fact that the proposed EU Platform Regulation apparently – seemingly unintentionally – would not apply to ‘underlying service-attached intermediation activities’ offered by platforms such as Uber and Deliveroo. and proposes a way to fix it.

This post focuses on the AG’s arguments concerning the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Justice over the definitive interpretation of EU Law.

This post will argue that it would be more normatively desirable for the European Union’s legislature to adopt measures in order to preserve these electoral rights for UK citizens.

This post examines in depth the Court’s shift in interpretive methodology and the alternative approaches to the interpretation of the AFMP that could have been taken.

This post offers some reflections on the controversial regulatory structure of Directive 2014/40, as well as on the reasoning of the Court.

This post argues that the UK would have had the tools to restrict migration also without Brexit.

This post discusses the AG’s interpretation of the right of communication to the public in relation material which is made available on the Internet without the consent of the rightholder.