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The newsletter covers the main developments in Pharma & Healthcare legislation and case law.

The newsletter covers the main developments in Pharma & Healthcare legislation and case law.

The Court of Justice ruling of 4 September 2025 (C-225/22) has declared that national courts may set aside decisions of higher courts that do not comply with the requirements of independence and impartiality derived from Article 19(1) of the Treaty on European Union and Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

The Agreement on the interpretation and application of the Energy Charter Treaty gives the force and effect of law to the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, according to which Article 26 of the Energy Charter Treaty does not and could not apply as a legal basis for intra-EU arbitration proceedings as a mechanism for the settlement of disputes between a contracting State and an investor of another contracting State.

The newsletter covers the main developments in Pharma & Healthcare legislation and case law.

If a collective action is brought to challenge the unilateral conduct of a company in the offsetting of salary claims through a payroll deduction, the amount of the debt and the existence of quantitative discrepancies must necessarily be questioned in order to be able to assess whether or not there is legal offsetting on the part of the employer. Only by admitting that the debt is a liquidated amount that is due and payable will the employer - or the employee, as the case may be - be able to offset the debt, but if the debt is not disputed, the way is open for the offsetting of wage claims.

The newsletter covers the main developments in Pharma & Healthcare legislation and case law.

The Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 29 April 2025 addresses the modification of public contracts originally awarded to an in-house entity which, during performance of the contracts, has lost such status. The reference for a preliminary ruling was made in the context of a dispute concerning the extension of concession contracts relating to service facilities ancillary to motorways to include the construction, maintenance and operation of fast-charging infrastructure.

The newsletter covers the main developments in Pharma & Healthcare legislation and case law.