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Air transport. The Court of Justice rules on the compensation of air passengers informed in advance that boarding would be denied
An operating air carrier which has informed a passenger in advance that, against the latter’s will, it is going to deny him or her boarding in respect of a flight for which he or she has a confirmed reservation, must compensate that passenger even if he or she did not present him or herself for boarding under the conditions set in Article 3(2) of Regulation 261/2004
The Court of Justice rules on the applicability of Regulation 1370/2007 to a mixed public service contract for multimodal public passenger transport services
Regulation 1370/2007 does not apply to a mixed public service contract for multimodal public passenger transport services, comprising transport by tramway, funicular railway and cableway, even in a context where track-based modes of transport account for the majority of the transport in respect of which management has been awarded
Insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles. The Court of Justice rules on the national legislation providing for the automatic compensation of certain victims of a road accident and on the notion of “vehicle”
The notion of “vehicle”, within the meaning of Point 1 of Article 1 of Directive 2009/103/EC, does not encompass a bicycle whose electric motor provides pedal assistance only and which is equipped with a function allowing the bicycle to accelerate to a speed of 20 km/h without pedalling, a function which may however be activated only after the use of muscular power
The Court of Justice rules on the transport of empty containers before loading or after unloading of goods in the context of combined transport
The road transport of empty containers between a container terminal and a point where the goods are loaded or unloaded falls within the concept of “combined transport”, so that it benefits from the liberalised scheme laid down for initial and/or final road transport legs which form an integral part of a combined transport operation and which are exempt from the application of the provisions relating to cabotage laid down by Regulation No 1072/2009