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New EU rules requiring online platforms to remove "terrorist content" within an hour of receiving a removal order from state authorities have come into force. The Terrorist Content Online Regulation, which applies as of 7 June 2022, aims to "counter the spread of extremist ideologies online" by intr

Supermarkets in the UK have suffered another blow in the battle for equal pay after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled employees working in stores can compare their roles to colleagues working in distribution centres for the purpose of equal pay. Before the UK left the EU, the C

Judge Anthony Collins has been nominated for appointment as an Advocate-General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The government's decision in April to nominate Advocate-General Gerard Hogan for appointment to the Supreme Court bench will create a vacancy on the CJEU.

Controversial new EU copyright rules will help help close the "value gap" between content creators and online service providers, an expert in IP law has said. Marking World Intellectual Property Day, Dr Mark Hyland, the IMRO adjunct professor of IP law at the Law Society of Ireland, said Article 17

Experts in international trade and investment, EU external relations and Irish constitutional law will examine the legal and policy issues at stake in Ireland's ratification of the controversial CETA trade deal at an event later this month. The online seminar hosted by Maynooth University Department

Sibel Top, a PhD fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, considers whether EU extradition laws have passed the "Catalan test". On 8 March 2021, the European Parliament voted to lift the immunity of Catalan MEPs, Puigdemont, Comin and Ponsati. Although this

Legal scholars, practitioners, judges and public servants have been invited to make submissions for the 2021 volume of the Irish Journal of European Law. Published under the auspices of the Irish Society for European Law (ISEL), the journal was established in 1992 and has since developed an internat

A victims' rights campaigner is taking the European Commission to court over its short-lived threat to invoke Article 16 during the EU vaccine crisis. Solicitor Ciaran O'Hare of Belfast firm McIvor Farrell Solicitors has been instructed to bring a judicial review to the General Court of the European

The European Commission is expected to decide this week that data protection standards are high enough in the UK to allow personal data transfers between the UK and the EU to continue. The adequacy assessment has huge significance for businesses operating across the UK and the EU. It has attracted e

Ireland has joined eight other member states in raising concerns about a proposed directive on adequate minimum wages across the European Union. Tánaiste Leo Varadkar was among the signatories of a letter sent to the EU presidency, currently held by Germany, at the end of January which says t

Ireland is set to join a major EU law enforcement system next March in a "game-changer" for Garda investigations of cross-border crime. The European Council has approved Ireland's connection to the Schengen Information System (SIS II), the largest and most widely used IT system for public security i

Proposed restrictions on post-Brexit VAT refunds for goods purchased in Ireland by visitors from Great Britain are set to be relaxed in a bid to support Irish retailers. Legislation currently being considered by the Oireachtas would have allowed visitors from Great Britain, after the UK becomes a "t

Retail giant Amazon has been charged by the European Commission over its use of sales data on independent retailers to "illegally" obtain an advantage in the European marketplace. In July last year, the Commission opened an in-depth investigation to assess Amazon's use of sensitive data. The data co

Ireland's data protection watchdog is set to bear a "very heavy financial burden" after a judge ruled that it should pay costs in the landmark case brought by privacy campaigner Max Schrems which led to the striking down of the US-EU Privacy Shield agreement. In her ruling on costs on Friday, Ms Jus

The European Commission has decided to appeal a court ruling that US tech giant Apple did not receive illegal state aid from Ireland and does not have to pay €14 billion in back taxes. The Commission concluded in 2016 that Ireland broke EU state aid rules by granting undue tax benefits to Apple