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From Status to Impact, and the Role of National Legislation: The Application of Article 34 TFEU to a Private Certification Organisation in Fra.bo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Barend van Leeuwen
Barend van Leeuwen*
Affiliation:
European University Institute (Florence),
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Abstract

In Fra.bo, it was held by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) that “Article 28 EC must be interpreted as meaning that it applies to standardisation and certification activities of a private-law body, where the national legislation considers the products certified by that body to be compliant with national law and that has the effect of restricting the marketing of products which are not certified by that body” (author's headnote).

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Case Notes
Information
European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , September 2013 , pp. 405 - 408
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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References

1 Now Article 34 TFEU

2 Case C-171/11, Fra.bo SpA v Deutsche Vereinigung des Gas und Wasserfaches eV (DVGW) – TechnischWissenschaftlicher Verein (Judgment of 12th July 2012), para 34.

3 Opinion of AG Trstenjak in Case C-171/11, Fra.bo SpA v Deutsche Vereinigung des Gas und Wasserfaches eV (DVGW) – TechnischWissenschaftlicher Verein, paras 43-45.

4 Ibid., paras 49-50.

5 Case C-171/11, Fra.bo SpA v Deutsche Vereinigung des Gas und Wasserfaches eV (DVGW) – TechnischWissenschaftlicher Verein (Judgment of 12th July 2012), paras. 18-20.

6 Ibid., para 26.

7 Ibid., paras 27-30.

8 Ibid., para 31.

9 van den Bogaert, Stefaan, “Horizontality: the Court Attacks?”, in Barnard, Catherine and Scott, Joanne, (eds.), The Law of the Single European Market: Unpacking the Premises, (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2002), pp. 123–152 Google Scholar.

10 Case C-171/11, Fra.bo SpA v Deutsche Vereinigung des Gas und Wasserfaches eV (DVGW) – TechnischWissenschaftlicher Verein (Judgment of 12th July 2012), para 22.

11 Ibid., para 26.

12 Opinion of AG Maduro in Viking, Case C-438/05, International Transport Workers’ Federation and Finnish Seamen’s UnionvViking Line ABP et al., [2007] ECR I-10779, paras 38-40.

13 Case C-36/74, Walrave and Koch v Association Union cycliste internationale and others, [1974] ECR 1405.

14 Case C-415/93, Union Royale Belge des Sociétés de Football Association ASBL v Jean-Marc Bosman and others, [1995] ECR I- 4921.

15 Case C-341/05, Laval un Partneri Ltd v Svenska Byggandsarbetareförbundet et al., [2007] ECR I-11767.

16 Arbetsdomstolensdomar (Judgments by the Labour Court) 2009 No. 89 of 2 Dec. 2009. Unofficial English translation by Jur. Dr Laura Carlson, available on the Internet at <http://arbetsratt.juridicum.su.se/Filer/PDF/ErikSjoedin/AD%202009%20nr%2089%20Laval%20English.pdf> (last accessed on 6 August 2013).

17 van Leeuwen, Barend, “An illusion of protection and an assumption of responsibility: the possibility of Swedish State liability after Laval ”, in Barnard, Catherine and Gehring, Marcus (eds.), The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 2011-2012, Volume 14, (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013), pp. 453–473 Google Scholar. Others are more positive: Bernitz, Ulf and Reich, Norbert, “Case comment: The Labour Court Judgment in the Case Laval et Partneri”, 48 CML Rev (2011), pp. 603–623 Google Scholar.