General information On 22nd September 2022, the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill was introduced to the UK Parliament. Retained EU Law is a category of domestic law prepared at the end of the transition period of the Brexit exit and consists of EU-derived legislation that was preserved in the UK domestic legal framework...
Azerbaijan has signed Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which refers to the abolition of the death sentence in all cases. Ratification is required for the convention to have legal force in Azerbaijan. Accession to this protocol coincides with the 25th anniversary (1998) of the national abolition of the death...
The European Commission published its annual report on the Safety Gate, the European Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products. The report covers alerts notified during 2022 and the responses given by national authorities. Health risks linked to chemical substances were the most frequent type of risk notified, which was found also in a wider...
Brief: The Act will strengthen the resilience and competitiveness of net-zero technologies manufacturing in the EU, and make our energy system more secure and sustainable. This will create more favourable conditions for establishing the projects to be implemented in Europe in accordance with the goal of “net zero” and increasing the production capacity by 40%...
The European Commission and the High Representative have adopted a Joint Communication act on a strengthened European Union Maritime Security Strategy to ensure the safe use of the seas and protect the maritime areas from new threats. An updated Action Plan for the implementation of the Strategy was also adopted. Maritime security is of crucial...
The European Commission has adopted a decision to register the European Citizens’ Initiative “Ensuring the reception of migrants with dignity in Europe”. The main goal of the initiative is to provide effective solidarity between member states and ensure the accommodation of asylum seekers throughout the European Union. The participants of the initial work for the...
The European Commission has adopted a Recommendation and Communication act setting out common objectives for enhancing disaster resilience in civil protection areas. This includes ways to better prepare European countries for natural disasters, including earthquakes, floods and forest fires. Given the rapidly changing risk landscape, Europe’s disaster resilience objectives aim to increase the capacity of...
The European Commission is adopting a package of infringement decisions due to the absence of communication by Member States of measures taken to transpose EU directives into national law. The Commission is sending a letter of formal notice to those Member States who have failed to notify national measures transposing directives, and whose transposition deadline...
Facts: Between 2010 and 2017, a self-employed worker prepared audiovisual material, trailers and features for the promotional programmes of TP, a company that operates a nationwide public television channel in Poland. That collaboration was based on a series of contracts for specific work which that worker concluded with TP in the context of his independent...
Azerbaijan has sent a letter to the International Court of Justice regarding Armenia. The International Court of Justice, being the supreme judicial body of the UN, regulates interstate relations. Its main tasks are to settle legal disputes between states and to provide advisory opinions on legal issues submitted to it by competent international bodies and...