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CJEU, Fact Sheet, Field of application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union Case C-493/17 (Grand Chamber) Weiss and Others, December 2018 Case C-416/17 European Commission v French Republic, 4 October 2018 Case T-817/14, Zoofachhandel Züpke GmbH and Others v European Commission, 17 March 2016 Case T-138/14, Chart v EEAS, 16 December 2015 Joined Cases C-446/12 - 449/12, Willems and Others, 16 April 2015 Case C-483/12, Pelckmans Turnhout, 8 May 2014 Case C-390/12, Pfleger and Others, 30 April 2014 Case C-206/13, Siragusa, 6 March 2014 Case T 383/11, Eyad Makhlouf v Council of the European Union, 13 September 2013 Case C‑617/10, Åklagaren v Hans Åkerberg Fransson, 26 February 2013 Case C-399/11, Stefano Melloni v Ministerio Fiscal, 26 February 2013 Opinion of Advocate General, Case C-399/11, Melloni, 2 October 2012 Case C-40/11, Yoshikazu Iida v Stadt Ulm, 8 November 2012 Case C-27/11, Vinkov v Nachalnik Administrativno-nakazatelna deynost, 7 June 2012 Case C-482/10, Teresa Cicala v Regione Siciliana, 21 December 2011 Case C-555/07, Kücükdeveci, 19 January 2010 Case T-51/89 Tetra Pak Rausing SA v Commission of the European Communities, 10 July 1990 Case C-791/19 R (Order) Commission v Poland, 8 April 2020 (No English version available) Commission v. Poland (Grand Chamber), C‑192/18, 5 November 2019 Commission v. Poland (Grand Chamber), C-619/18, 24 June 2019 Case C-216/18 PPU (Grand Chamber) LM, 25 July 2018 Case C 555/13 (Order) Merck Canada Inc. v Accord Healthcare Ltd and Others, 13 February 2014 Case C 371/13 (Order) SC Schuster & Co Ecologic, 7 November 2013 (No English version available) Case C 394/11 Valeri Hariev Belov v CHEZ Elektro Balgaria AD and Others, 31 January 2013 Case C 363/11 Epitropos tou Elegktikou Synedriou, 19 December 2012 Joined cases C-83/01 P, C-93/01 P and C-94/01 P Chronopost v Ufex and Others, 3 July 2003 Case C-752/18 Deutsche Umwelthilfe, 19 December 2019 Haqbin (Grand Chamber), C-233/18, 12 November 2019 Torubarov (Grand Chamber), C-556/17, 29 July 2019 Case C-414/16 (Grand Chamber) Egenberger, 17 April 2018 Case C-685/15 Online Games and Others, 14 June 2017 Case T-340/14, Klyuyev v Council of the European Union, 15 September 2016 Tall, C-239/14, 17 December 2015 Olainfarm, C-104/13, 23 October 2014 Case C-310/16 Dzivev and Other, 17 January 2019 Case C-612/15 (Grand Chamber) Kolev and Others, 5 June 2018 El Hassani, C-403/16, 13 December 2017 Case C-42/17 (Grand Chamber) M.A.S. and M.B., 5 December 2017 Case-177/17 (Order) Demarchi Gino S.a.s. v Ministero della Giustizia, 7 September 2017 Biuro podróży Partner, C-119/15, 21 December 2016 Printeos and Others v Commission, T-95/15, 13 December 2016 Case C-441/14, DI (Grand Chamber), 19 April 2016 Schrems, (Grand Chamber), C-362/14, 6 October 2015 Case C 238/12 P FLSmidth v Commission, 30 April 2014 Case C 278/13 P (Order) Commission v Pilkington Group, 10 September 2013 Case C-651/19 Commissaire général aux réfugiés and aux apatrides, 9 September 2020 Case C-280/18 Flausch and Others, 7 November 2019 Case C-676/17 Călin 11 September 2019 Case C-317/18 Cátia Correia Moreira v Município de Portimão, 13 June 2019 Case C-637/17 Cogeco Communications, 28 March 2019 Case C-585/16 (Grand Chamber) Alheto, 25 July 2018 Case C-181/16 (Grand Chamber) Sadikou Gnandi v État belge, 19 June 2018 Case C-470/16 North East Pylon Pressure Campaing and Sheehy, 15 March 2018 Case T-257/16, NM v European Council, 28 February 2017 Case C-429/15 Evelyn Danqua v Minister for Justice and Equality and Others, 20 October 2016 Case T-470/13, Merck KGaA v European Commission, 8 September 2016 Ordre des barreaux francophones and germanophone, C-543/14, 28 July 2016 Case C-49/14 Finanmadrid EFC, 18 February 2016 Case C-69/14 (Grand Chamber) Târșia, 6 October 2015 Orizzonte Salute, C-61/14, 6 October 2015 Case C-510/13 E.ON Földgáz Trade, 19 March 2015 FK v Commission, T-248/13, 16 September 2013 Case C 93/12 Agrokonsulting-04, 27 June 2013 Case C-156/12 (Order) GREP GmbH v Freitstaat Bayern, 13 June 2012 (No English version available) Case T-19/06, Mindo v Commission, 5 October 2011 Case C-2/08 Fallimento Olimpiclub, 3 September 2009 Case C-349/08 P (Order) Kronberger v Parliament, 19 May 2009 (No English version available) Case C-312/93 Peterbroeck, Van Campenhout & Cie v Belgian State, 14 December 1995 Case C-338/91 Steenhorst-Neerings, 27 October 1993 Joined cases C-6/90 and C-9/90 Francovich and Bonifaci v Italy, 19 November 1991 Case C-208/90 Emmott v Minister for Social Welfare and Attorney General, 25 July 1991 Case C-213/89 Factortame, 19 June 1990 Case 199/82 Amministrazione delle finanze dello Stato v San Giorgio, 9 November 1983 Case T-549/15, Ramón Guiral Broto v European Union Intellectual Property Office, 13 December 2016 Case T-720/14, Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg v. Council of the European Union, 30 November 2016 Case T-154/15, Aiman Jaber v Council of the European Union, 26 October 2016 (Available only in French) Case T-545/13, Fahed Mohamed Sakher Al Matri v Council of the European Union, 30 June 2016 Case T-469/13, Generics (UK) Ltd v European Commission, 8 September 2016 Case T-265/12, Schenker Ltd v European Commission, 29 February 2016 Case T-267/12, Deutsche Bahn and Others v European Commission, 29 February 2016 Case T 343/13, CN, supported by the EDPS v European Parliament, 3 December 2015 Case C-507/19 Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Case in progress) Case C-129/19 (Grand Chamber) Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri v BV, 16 July 2020 Case C-659/18 VW, 12 March 2020 Spetsializirana prokuratura, C-653/19 PPU, 28 November 2019 Case C-467/18 Rayonna prokuratura Lom, 19 September 2019 Case C-38/18 Gambino and Hyka, 29 July 2019 Opinion of Advocate General in Case C-646/17 Moro, 13 June 2019 Case C-377/18 AH and Others, 5 September 2019 Case C-601/14 (Grand Chamber) European Commission v Italian Republic, 11 October 2016 Case 34/09, Zambrano, 8 March 2011 Case C-434/09, Shirley McCarthy v Secretary of State for the Home Department, 5 May 2011 Case C-145/09, Land Baden-Württemberg v Panagiotis Tsakouridis, 23 November 2010 Case 162/09, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Child Poverty Action Group, 7 October 2010 Case T-727/15, Association Justice & Environment, z.s. v European Commission, 23 January 2017 Case C-615/13 P, Client Earth and Pan Europe v EFSA, 16 July 2015 Case T-115/13, Dennekamp, 15 July 2015 Case T-306/12, Spirlea, 25 September 2014 Case C-350/12 P, Sophie in ’t Veld v Council, 3 July 2014 Joined Cases C-514/11 P and C-605/11 P, LPN v Commission, 14 November 2013 Case C-280/11 P, Access Info Europe, 17 October 2013 Case T-331/11, Besselink, 12 September 2013 Case T-590/10, Thesing and Bloomberg Finance v ECB, 29 November 2012 Case T-190/10, Kathleen Egan and Margaret Hackett v European Parliament, 28 March 2012 Case T-59/09, Federal Republic of Germany v European Commission, 14 February 2012 Case C-506/08 P, MyTravel, 21 July 2011 Joined cases C-514/07 P, C-528/07 P and C-52/07 P, Open Skies cases, 21 September 2010 Case T-672/14, Dr. August Wolff GmbH & Co. KG Arzneimittel et Remedia d.o.o. contre Commission européenne, 20 October 2016 (only in French) Case T- 207/15, National Iranian Tanker Company v Council of the European Union, 14 September 2016 Case T-830/14, Mohamed Farahat v Council of the European Union, 9 September 2016 Case T-719/14, Tri Ocean Energy v Council of the European Union, 9 September 2016 Case T-472/13, H. Lundbeck A/S and Lundbeck Ltd v European Commission, 8 September 2016 Case T-66/14, Bredenkamp and Others v Council and Commission, 21 July 2016 Case T 383/11, Eyad Makhlouf v Council of the European Union, 13 September 2013 Case T-4/11 et T-5/11, Export Development Bank of Iran v Council, 6 September 2013 (only in French) Case T 645/11 P, Michael Heath contre la Banque centrale européenne, 18 June 2013 (only in French) Case T-119/11, Simone Gbagbo contre le Conseil de l’Union européenne, 25 April 2013 (only in French) Case T-299/08, Elf Aquitaine SA v European Commission, 17 May 2011
Case law of the European Court of Human Rights
Pirozzi v. Belgium, no. 21055/11, 17 April 2018
Avotiņš v. Latvia, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 17502/07, 23 May 2016
Furman v Slovenia and Austria, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 16608/09, 5 February 2015
Hoholm v Slovakia, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 35632/13, 13 January 2015
Tarakhel v Switzerland, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 29217/124, 4 November 2014
Jeunesse v The Netherlands, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 12738/10, 3 October 2014
Dhahbi v Italy, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 17120/09, 8 April 2014
X v Latvia, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 27853/09, 26 November 2013
Del Río Prada v Spain, ECHR, Appl. No. 42750/09, 21 October 2013,
Delfi AS v Estonia, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 64569/09, 10 October 2013
Povse v Austria, ECHR Decision, Appl. No. 3890/11, 18 June 2013
Michaud v France, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 12323/11, 6 December 2012
Karoussiotis v Portugal, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No.23205/08, 1 February 2011
M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 30696/09, 21 January 2011
Schalk and Kopf v Austria, no. 30141/04, 24 June 2010
Kokkelvisserij U.A. v The Netherlands, ECHR Decision, Appl. No. 13645/05, 20 January 2009
Connolly v 15 EU MS, ECHR Decision, 9 December 2008, Appl. No. 73274/01 (only in French)
Kress v France, no. 39594/98, 7 June 2001
Matthews v UK, ECHR Judgment, Appl. No. 24833/94, 18 February 1999
Hauschildt v. Denmark, ECtHR Judgment, Application no. 10486/83, 24 May 1989
De Cubber v. Belgium, ECtHR Judgment, Application no. 9186/80, 26 October 1984
Piersack v. Belgium, ECtHR Judgment, Application no. 8692/79, 1 October 1982
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Documents on the relationship between the ECHR and the EU
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Reflets Édition spéciale Charte des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne, No 1/2013: Informations rapides sur les développements juridiques présentant un intérêt pour l’Union européenne (available only in French)
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Report, Flash Eurobarometer 340, April 2012
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FRA Fundamental Rights Report, EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and its use by Member States, 2016
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