May, 2022
Components for buses of the Iveco make or equivalent. AG Sánchez-Bordona rules on the need for the EC type-approval
Where a call for tenders for a public contract for the supply of replacement components for buses to be used to provide public transport services permits offers of equivalent spare parts, the type-approval of which is mandatory under one of the regulatory acts listed in Annex IV to Directive 2007/46/EC, tenderers must submit the corresponding EC type-approval certificate, the submission of a declaration of equivalence alone being insufficient for these purposes
Air transport. Advocate General Jean Richard de la Tour finds that EU law does not prevent the conferral on a national body of the power to request air carriers the payment of a pecuniary compensation to passengers
Advocate General Jean Richard de la Tour stated in his opinion that article 16, paragraph 1, of Regulation 261/2004 does not preclude national law from conferring on a national body the power to request an air carrier the payment of a compensation to a passenger for the cancellation or long delay of a flight, insofar as the air carrier and the passenger are not precluded from bringing an action before the national judge on matters pertaining to the compensation.