The Digital Markets Act: the newly adopted EU regulatory regime for large digital platforms.

On 14th September 2022, the European Parliament adopted the final text of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 12th October 2022. The DMA refers to the Regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector and is amongst the first initiatives to comprehensively regulate…

The General Court largely confirms the Commission’s decision finding that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on manufacturers of Android mobile devices and mobile network operators in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine (Case T-604/18 – Google Android)

The European Union’s General Court (General Court) has rejected Google’s appeal against the Commission’s decision of July 18th 2018 by which the technological giant was sanctioned with a fine of €4.343 million for abusing its dominant position, in relation to the obligation that Google imposed on the manufacturers of mobile devices to preinstall the general…

The Comissió de Territori de Catalunya has initially approved the Urbanistic Director Plan of revision of non-sustainable lands of the Malgrat de Mar to Alcanar littoral

In the context of the protection task of the Catalan coast from the excessive urbanization, the Vice-presidency, Digital Policies and Territory Department has initially approved the Urbanistic Director Plan of revision of non-sustainable lands of the Malgrat de Mar to Alcanar littoral, which affects to 41 municipalities from the regions of Maresme, Garraf, Baix Penedès,…

The Supreme Court declares that it isn’t in accordance with the law to allow the correction of an essential defect in the procedure for the elaboration of urban planning instruments during the execution of the judgement. STS no. 234/2022, of February 23.

The Supreme Court has pronounced, in judgment 234/2022, of February 23, about the impossibility of correcting, in the execution of the judgment, the omission of the strategic environmental assessment procedure in an urban planning instrument declared null and void for this reason. In this case, the competent environmental authority issued a report stating that wasn’t…

The Court of Justice of the European Union declares contrary to EU law the system of the State’s liability to pay damages provided in Laws 39/2015 and 40/2015 (CJEU of 28 June 2022. Case C-278/20).

The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of 28 June 2022 has declared that the Spanish legislation on liability in the event of damage arising from the application of rules that are contrary to European Union law (EU law) does not comply with the principle of effectiveness. As a result,…

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The Digital Markets Act: the newly adopted EU regulatory regime for large digital platforms.

The General Court largely confirms the Commission’s decision finding that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on manufacturers of Android mobile devices and mobile network operators in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine (Case T-604/18 – Google Android)

The Comissió de Territori de Catalunya has initially approved the Urbanistic Director Plan of revision of non-sustainable lands of the Malgrat de Mar to Alcanar littoral

The Supreme Court declares that it isn’t in accordance with the law to allow the correction of an essential defect in the procedure for the elaboration of urban planning instruments during the execution of the judgement. STS no. 234/2022, of February 23.

The Court of Justice of the European Union declares contrary to EU law the system of the State’s liability to pay damages provided in Laws 39/2015 and 40/2015 (CJEU of 28 June 2022. Case C-278/20).

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