Browsing Tag Court of Justice
Service in the field of transport. The Court of Justice rules on the provision of road safety awareness and re-education courses for the recovery of driving licence points
Directive 2006/123/EC precludes a national legislation under which the award of the contract for the provision of road safety awareness and training courses for the purposes of the recovery of driving licence points must be made by means of a public service concession, in so far as it goes beyond what is necessary to attain the improvement of road safety
The Court of Justice rules on the obligation on automotive manufacturers to provide vehicle repair and maintenance information
The obligation which Regulation 2018/858 imposes on automotive manufacturers to provide unrestricted, standardised and non-discriminatory access to vehicle repair and maintenance information includes the one to allow publishers of technical information to process and use that information for the purposes of their activities in the aftermarket supply chain, without subjecting them to conditions other than those laid down in that regulation
Air transport. The Court of Justice rules on the concept of “bodily injury”
A psychological injury caused to a passenger by an accident, which is not linked to bodily injury within the meaning of the Montreal Convention, must be compensated in the same way as such an injury provided that the aggrieved passenger demonstrates the existence of an adverse effect on his or her psychological integrity of such gravity or intensity that it affects his or her general state of health and that it cannot be resolved without medical treatment
Connecting flights and reservation through a travel agency. The Court of Justice rules on the compensation for air passengers in the event of a long delay to a flight
The concept of a “connecting flight” covers a transport operation made up of a number of flights, operated by separate air carriers which do not have a specific legal relationship, where those flights have been combined by a travel agency which has charged an overall price and issued a single ticket for that operation