Court of Justice

Uber faces the biggest challenge yet to its European roll-out after the region’s top court was advised to rule that the U.S. ride-hailing firm is actually a transport service not an app.

U.S. ride-hailing app Uber told Europe's top court on April 24 that it was a digital service, not a transport service, and that a French law clearly targeted online taxi services, in its latest European legal battle with the taxi industry.

Over the past few months there have been repeated calls from a number of European Union member-states to resume the transfer of asylum seekers to Greece under the Dublin Regulation, which provides for the return of applicants to the member-states through which they first entered the EU.

The European Commission has said it will refer Bulgaria to the Court of Justice of the EU for non-implementation of obligations it has assumed under the common law related to e-documents.

In a statement dated Monday, the Commission cites "non-implementation of the obligation to create a Single Point of Contact" for e-passports and e-residence permits.

BELGRADE - The European Commission is referring Germany to the Court of Justice over Germany's controversial plan to impose highway tolls on other EU member states' vehicles, an EC statement revealed on Thursday.

In spite of numerous contacts with the German authorities since November 2014, the Commission's concerns have not been addressed, the statement outlined.

The European Commission has requested Bulgaria and six other EU member states to transpose the 2012 directive for establishing a single European railway area.

The European Commission has started legal action against Greece, Italy and Croatia for failing to correctly register migrants. Greece has been criticized for failure to fingerprint around 121,000 of the almost 500,000 people who arrived in the country between July 20 and November 30, 2015, according to EC estimates.

The European Commission is referring Greece to the Court of Justice of the EU over poor waste management on the Greek island of Corfu.

The Court of Justice of the EU ruled in 2004 that Greece was violating EU law by not adequately collecting and treating waste water discharged into the Gulf of Elefsina. Eleven years later, Greece has not managed to adequately address this problem.

The Bulgarian Finance Ministry has voiced its content with the move by Greece to revoke a 26% withholding tax on transactions from sources in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Ireland.