EU Agencies Before the Court of Justice

Hybrid event, organised by the Department of Law of the University of Luxembourg and Maastricht University, in co-operation with the RSI, TARN and GLawNet“.

Programme

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Opening of the conference (Herwig Hofmann & Ellen Vos)

PANEL I – Matching Judicial Review for Different EU Agency Actions (introduction & chair: Mariolina Eliantonio)

• Judicial review of decisions of agencies’ Boards of Appeal - Annalisa Volpato
• Judicial review of decisions of non-financial decision-making agencies (EASA, ACER, ERA, ECHA) - Andreas Orator
• Judicial review of decisions of financial agencies (ESMA, EBA, EIOPA, SRB) - Napoleon Xanthoulis
• Judicial review of ECB decisions (including ECB applying national law) - Michael Ioannidis

Discussant: Suzanne Kingston (GC)

Book launch: The Boards of Appeal of EU Agencies - Merijn Chamon, Annalisa Volpato and Mariolina Eliantonio

Discussants: Paul Nihoul (GC) and Carsten Zatschler (Joint Board of Appeal) (tbc)

PANEL II – EU Agencies and Composite Procedures (introduction & chair - Herwig Hofmann)

• I open at the close: reasoned composite decision-making and judicial protection against Union Agencies - Filipe Brito Bastos
• Judicial review of agency soft law in composite procedures - Nathan de Arriba-Sellier
• Reviewing national acts stemming from composite procedures - Lisette Mustert
• Reviewing composite agency enforcement actions - Melanie Fink and Florin Coman Kund

Discussant: Mariolina Eliantonio

PANEL III – EU Agencies as Parties in Judicial Proceedings: Issues on Agency Litigation (introduction & chair - Ellen Vos )

• Agency litigation strategies and the defense of discretionary powers - Michał Krajewski
• Non-privileged annulment litigation against agency decisions - Chara Vlachou
• Litigation of actions for damages against agencies - Katri Havu
• A silent revolution: EU agencies’ right to intervene in direct actions - Merijn Chamon

Discussant: Jan Passer (ECJ)