Eu Law

A senior Irish legal academic has withdrawn from a major EU symposium on the rule of law after organisers proposed to platform "fake judges and pseudo experts" linked to Poland's rule of law crisis. Professor Laurent Pech of UCD Sutherland School of Law yesterday said he had lost faith in the organi

An environmental group has launched High Court proceedings in a bid to access government documents relating to agricultural policy. Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) is challenging the refusal of the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information (OCEI) to fully release four records r

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against a High Court judgment which found that the State’s prohibition on CBD products containing no more than 0.20 per cent THC did not offend the principle of the free movement of goods in the EU. Delivering judgment for the Court of Appeal, Mr Jus

McCann FitzGerald lawyers Rosaleen Byrne, Laura Treacy, Amy Brick and Stephen Ryan examine the European Commission's first fine for an incomplete response to an RFI issued pursuant to the Modernisation Regulation. The European Commission has, for the first time, jointly and severally fined a company

William Fry lawyers Rachel Hayes, Leo Moore and Aoife Keenan explain the key features of the EU's Digital Identity Wallet. The Regulation (EU) 2024/1183, which establishes the European Digital Identity Framework (EUDI Regulation), came into force in May 2024 and will take legal effect across the Eur

Nina M. Hart makes the case for Ireland taking a stronger approach to the enforcement of EU sanctions. Ireland has long maintained a framework for implementing the European Union’s economic sanctions, or restrictive measures, but not prioritised enforcing them.

The High Court has indicated that it will refer questions concerning the principle of equivalence and the legality of charges for time spent by public authority staff in answering environmental information requests to the CJEU. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Richard Humphreys ind

Ireland's asylum appeals system is to receive EU assistance with its significant backlog. An operational plan to support the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) has been agreed with the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration confir

WhatsApp and Pinterest are obliged to take action against terrorist content following a decision by Coimisiún na Meán. The regulator has determined under an EU-wide mechanism that WhatsApp's Channels service and Pinterest as a whole are "exposed to terrorist content".

Landmark legislation transposing the controversial EU Pact on Migration and Asylum into Irish law is to be scrutinised in the Oireachtas this afternoon. The Oireachtas joint committee on justice, home affairs and migration will meet from 3pm to 5.30pm today for pre-legislative scrutiny of the genera

A charter flight has removed 23 people to Romania following criminal convictions in Ireland. Removal orders were enforced yesterday afternoon against 23 men, aged between 22 and 49 years, all of whom had received custodial sentences for a range of offences, the government said.

William Fry lawyers Rachel Hayes, David Cullen and Aoife Keenan examine a CJEU ruling clarifying what constitutes personal data when transferring pseudonymised information externally. On 4 September 2025, the European Court of Justice delivered its decision in Case C-2025/645 between the European Da

Dr Liam O'Driscoll highlights the need for EU-wide reform following a CJEU ruling on an Irish case concerning the compensation of victims of crime for pain and suffering. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), on 2 October 2025, issued a judgment concerning the scope of Member States&rsq

Plans to transpose the controversial EU Pact on Migration and Asylum into Irish law have major human rights gaps, according to a new analysis. The Coalition on the EU Migration Pact, composed of 10 civil society organisations, has published an in-depth analysis of the general scheme of the Internati

The European Commission is set to relax EU economic governance rules in a bid to reduce reporting and administrative burdens on businesses. The proposals adopted yesterday are intended to be consistent with the economic governance framework introduced in April 2024 while reducing burdens and streaml