Essential Cases: EU Law (Seventh Edition)

This textbook provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. It provides readers with succinct summaries of some of the landmark and most influential cases in the Law of the European Union (EU). Each summary begins with a review of the main case facts and decision. The summary is then concluded with expert commentary on the case from the author, Noreen O'Meara., including her assessment of the wider questions raised by the decision.

Table of Contents:

• Part I - Primacy and Direct Effect
  • NV Algemene Transport- en Expeditie Onderneming Van Gend en Loos (Case 26/62), EU:C:1963:1, [1963] ECR 1, 5 February 1963
  • Flaminio Costa v ENEL (Case 6/64), EU:C:1964:66, [1964] ECR 585, 15 July 1964
  • Internationale Handelsgesellschaft mbH v Einfuhr- und Vorratsstelle für Getreide und Futtermittel (Case 11/70), EU:C:1970:114, [1970] ECR 1125, 17 December 1970
  • Defrenne v SABENA (‘Defrenne II’) (Case 43/75), EU:C:1976:56, [1976] ECR 455, 8 April 1976
  • Foster and others v British Gas plc (Case C-188/89), EU:C:1990:313, [1990] ECR I-3313, 12 July 1990
  • Marleasing SA v La Comercial Internacional de Alimentación SA (Case C-106/89), EU:C:1990:395, [1990] ECR I-4135, 13 November 1990
• Part II - Preliminary References
  • Srl CILFIT and Lanificio di Gavardo SpA v Ministry of Health (Case 283/81), EU:C:1982:335, [1982] ECR 3415, 6 October 1982
  • Foto-Frost v Hauptzollamt Lübeck-Ost (Case C-314/85), EU:C:1987:452, [1987] ECR 4199, 22 October 1987
  • Cartesio (Case C-210/06), EU:C:2008:723, [2008] ECR I-9641, 16 December 2008
  • Banco de Santander (Case C-274/14), EU:C:2020:17, 21 January 2020
• Part III - Competence/Division of Powers
  • Germany v Parliament and Council (‘Tobacco Advertising I’) (Case C-376/98), EU:C:2000:544, [2000] ECR I-8419, 5 October 2000
  • Commission v Council (‘Environmental crimes’) (Case C-176/03), EU:C:2005:542, [2005] ECR I-7879, 13 September 2005
• Part IV - Infringement Actions
  • Commission v Greece (‘Crete case II’) (Case C-387/97), EU:C:2000:356, [2000] ECR I-5092, 4 July 2000
  • Hungary v Slovak Republic (Case C-364/10), EU:C:2012:630, 16 October 2012
  • Commission v Poland (Case C-619/18), EU:C:2019:531, [2008] ECR I-6351, 24 June 2019
• Part V - Actions for Annulment
  • Plaumann v Commission (Case 25/62), EU:C:1963:17, [1963] ECR 95, 15 July 1963
  • Piraiki-Patraiki and others v Commission (Case 11/82), EU:C:1985:18, [1985] ECR 207, 17 January 1985
  • Unión de Pequeños Agricultores v Council of the European Union (Case C-50/00 P), EU:C:2002:462, [2002] ECR I-6677, 25 July 2002
  • Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council and Commission (‘Kadi I’) (Joined Cases C-402/05 P and C-415/05 P), EU:C:2008:461, [2008] ECR I-6351, 3 September 2008.
  • Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and others v European Parliament and Council of the European Union (Cases T-18/10 and C-583/11 P ‘Inuit I’), EU:T:2011:419, 6 September 2011/ EU:C:2013:625, 3 October 2013
  • Carvalho and others v Parliament and Council (‘People's Climate Case’) (Case C-565/19 P), EU:C:2021:252, Judgment of 25 March 2021; Carvalho and others v Parliament and Council (Case T-330/18), EU:T:2019:324, Order of 8 May 2019
• Part VI
  • Andrea Francovich and Danila Bonifaci and others v Italian Republic (Joined cases C-6/90 and C-9/90), EU:C:1991:428, [1991] ECR I-5357, 19 November 1991
  • Brasserie du Pêcheur SA v Bundesrepublik Deutschland; The Queen v Secretary of State for Transport, ex parte Factortame Ltd and others (‘Factortame III’) (Joined cases C-46/93 and C-48/93), EU:C:1996:79, [1996] ECR I-1029, 5 March 1996
  • Gerhard Köbler v Republik Österreich (Case C-224/01), EU:C:2003:513, [2003] ECR I-10239, 30 September 2003
• Part VII - Free Movement: Goods, Workers, Establishment, and Services
  • Procureur du Roi v Benoît and Gustave Dassonville (Case 8/74), EU:C:1974:82, [1974] ECR 837, 11 July 1974
  • Van Duyn v Home Office (Case 41/74), EU:C:1974:133, [1974] ECR 1337, 4 December 1974
  • Rewe-Zentral AG v Bundesmonopolverwaltung für Branntwein (‘Cassis de Dijon’) (Case 120/78), EU:C:1979:42, [1979] ECR 649, 20 February 1979
  • Irène Vlassopoulou v Ministerium für Justiz, Bundes- und Europaangelegenheiten Baden-Württemberg (Case C-340/89), EU:C:1991:193, [1991] ECR I-2365, 7 May 1991
  • Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Ireland Ltd v Stephen Grogan and others (Case C-159/90), EU:C:1991:378, [1991] ECR I-4685, 4 October 1991
  • Keck and Mithouard (Joined cases C-267/91 and C-268/91), EU:C:1993:905, [1993] ECR I-6097, 24 November 1993
  • Yvonne Watts v Bedford Primary Care Trust (Case C-372/04), EU:C:2006:325, [2006] ECR I-4325, 16 May 2006
  • Blaise Baheten Metock and others v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Case C-127/08), EU:C:2008:449, [2008] ECR I-6241, 25 July 2008
  • Commission v Italy (‘Trailers’) (Case C-110/05), EU:C:2009:66, [2009] ECR I-519, 10 February 2009
• Part VIII - Citizenship
  • María Martínez Sala v Freistaat Bayern (Case C-85/96), EU:C:1998:217, [1998] ECR I-2691, 12 May 1998
  • Rudy Grzelczyk v Centre public d’aide sociale d’Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve (Case C-184/99), EU:C:2001:458, [2001] ECR I-06193, 20 September 2001
  • Kunqian Catherine Zhu and Man Lavette Chen v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Case C-200/02), EU:C:2004:639, [2004] ECR I-9925, 19 October 2004
  • Janko Rottmann v Freistaadt Bayern (Case C-135/08), EU:C:2010:104, [2010] ECR I-1449, 2 March 2010
  • Gerardo Ruiz Zambrano v Office national de l’emploi (Case C-34/09), EU:C:2011:124, [2011] ECR I-1177, 8 March 2011
  • Elisabeta Dano and Florin Dano v Jobcenter Leipzig (Case C-333/13), EU:C:2014:2358, [2014] ECR I-2358, 11 November 2014
  • Jobcenter Berlin Neukölln v Nazifa Alimanovic and others (Case C-67/14), EU:C:2015:597, 15 September 2015
  • Tjebbes and others v Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken (Case C-221/17), EU:C:2019:189, 12 March 2019
• Part IX - Fundamental Rights/Equality and Non-discrimination
  • Association belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats and others v Council (Case C-236/09), EU:C:2011:100, [2011] ECR I-773, 1 March 2011
  • Prosecutor v Hans Åkerberg Fransson (Case C-617/10), EU:C:2013:105, [2013] 2 CMLR 46, 26 February 2013
  • Digital Rights Ireland and Seitlinger and others v Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources and others (Joined cases C-293/12 and C-594/12), EU:C:2014:238, [2014] ECR I-238, 8 April 2014
• Part X - Crime
  • Stefano Melloni v Ministerio Fiscal (Case C-399/11), EU:C:2013:107, 26 February 2013
  • Aranyosi and Căldăraru (Joined cases C-404/15 and C-659/15 PPU), EU:C:2016:198, 5 April 2016
• Part XI - Brexit
  • R.O. (Case C-327/18 PPU), EU:C:2018:733, 19 September 2018
  • Wightman and others v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Case C-621/18), EU:C:2018:999, 10 December 2018
  • SN and SD v Governor of Cloverhill Prison and others (Case C-479/21 PPU), EU:C:2021:929, Judgment of 16 November 2021