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The Court of Justice sets aside the judgment of the General Court partially annulling the Commission regulation fixing emission values for real driving emissions tests for new light vehicles. Since the cities of Paris, Brussels and Madrid are not directly concerned by that regulation, their actions seeking its annulment must be dismissed as inadmissible By adopting Directive 2007/46, 1 the EU legislature established a harmonised framework for the approval of motor vehicles in order to facilitate their registration, sale and entry into service in the European Union.

In the context of the ‘Dieselgate’ scandal, the European Commission set up a procedure for testing the real driving emissions (‘RDE’) 2 of light passenger and commercial vehicles, approved in accordance with the applicable legislation, 3 in order better to reflect the emissions measured on the road. The requirements for the RDE tests were subsequently supplemented by Commission Regulation 2016/646, 4 which sets limit values for emissions of oxides of nitrogen which must not be exceeded during those tests (‘the contested regulation’).

The City of Paris, the City of Brussels and the Municipality of Madrid (‘the respondents’) each brought an action for annulment of the regulation at issue, in so far as it prevented them from imposing restrictions on the circulation of passenger vehicles in relation to their pollutant emissions. The Commission raised objections of inadmissibility against the abovementioned actions, alleging that the regulation at issue was not of direct concern to the applicant cities within the meaning of the fourth paragraph of Article 263 TFEU.

“The decision of the Hungarian government to conduct a national referendum regarding children’s access to information concerning sexual orientation and gender identity issues on the same day as the parliamentary elections is deeply regrettable as it furthers the instrumentalisation of the human rights of LGBTI people”, said today the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović.

“It was disappointing that the 'child protection law', which wrongly associates homosexuality with pedophilia and curtails the freedom of expression and education of all Hungarians was adopted in June 2021 despite the strong objections of many international and national observers, including myself.”https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/hungarian-government-must-stop-instrumentalising-and-weakening-the-human-rights-of-lgbti-people

Wissenschaftsministerin Bettina Martin und der Bürgerbeauftragte Matthias Crone haben heute Kinder der Kindertagesstätte St. Anna begrüßt. Die Kinder beteiligen sich an der landesweiten Sammelaktion Dreikönigssingen 2022, die unter dem Motto: „Gesund werden – gesund bleiben. Ein Kinderrecht weltweit“ steht. Die Kinder überbrachten den traditionellen Dreikönigssegen.

Der Petitionsausschuss kam gestern zu seiner zweiten Sitzung zusammen, die als Präsenz- und Videokonferenz durchgeführt wurde. Nachdem sich der Ausschuss über allgemeine Verfahrensfragen. verständigt hatte, stieg er gleich in die Sacharbeit ein. Zu der mehrfach vorliegenden Beschwerde über die verringerten Urlaubstage für behinderte Menschen in Tagesgruppen beschloss der Petitionsausschuss, die Problematik in einer weiteren Sitzung mit Sachverständigen zu erörtern.

Camden Council has agreed to reconsider how it will deal with businesses that missed out on COVID grants following an investigation by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

The Ombudsman has investigated complaints from two businessmen who felt Camden Council did not consider their applications properly in 2020. In one case the council will reconsider a man’s application for a small business grant (SBG) for his food business, and in the other it will pay a second man a £25,000 retail, hospitality and leisure grant.