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New UNIO issue now online

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The Editorial Board is pleased to announce that a new issue of UNIO – EU Law Journal is now online. Issue 11(1) of UNIO includes contributions from a number of highly regarded academics and young scholars and covers topics such as i) EU’s climate diplomacy in the light of the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement; ii) limitations of legal theory in dealing with informational phenomena and ideal models of Internet regulation; iii) access to the Internet as a central aspect of the exercise of fundamental freedoms and rights; iv) right not to be monitored in an emerging omniotic surveillance society; v) emerging principles from digital constitutionalism in EU law and policy governing digital services  (principle of user empowerment, principle of due process, and principle of transparency); vi) who should hold the status of “controller” (of data) in the courts, centred upon the cases of Portugal and Spain; and vi) CJEU’s Mousse judgment, in which the CJEU reaffirmed that data collection must be objectively indispensable for a specified legal basis, rejecting broad interpretations of contractual necessity and legitimate interest.

It is our hope that this new edition will be of relevance to our readers and would also like to remind you that we are accepting submissions at UNIO and also on our blog.

You may find UNIO’s 11(1) issue here.

Digitalisation of Justice – feedback is open on the putative Commission’s Communication on a Digital Justice Strategy for 2025-2030

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Joana Covelo de Abreu (Editor of this blog and Key-staff member of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “Digital Citizenship & Technological Sustainability” – CitDig, Erasmus+. Project Assistant of the Jean Monnet Network ENDE)

A feedback period is open from the 26th of May 2025 to the 23rd of June 2025 concerning a call for evidence on a future Commission’s Communication establishing a strategy on Digital Justice for the time span of 2025-2030.

A call for evidence can be used when the European Commission exercises its right of initiative, as it is enshrined under Article 17 (1) of the Treaty of the European Union (TEU). Although it is usually mentioned in the context of the legislative procedure – since, for the most part, the European Commission is the institution with an independent power to bring legislative proposals to the equation –, this institution is entrusted with the task of planning, preparing and proposing all adequate initiatives to promote the general interest of the Union.

In this sense, a call for evidence must be used to define the scope of i) “a politically sensitive and/or important new law or policy”; ii) “an evaluation of an existing law or policy”; and iii) “a fitness check of a bundle of related existing laws and/or policies”.[1] A call for evidence aims at describing the problem that is justifying the Commission’s action, its objectives, while outlining “policy options”. In this particular action, no impact assessment is scheduled, especially since the Commission wants to see whether it will, in the last quarter of 2025, adopt a Communication (i.e., a non-legislative act) focusing on a Digital Justice Strategy for 2025-2030 (DigitalJustice@2023).

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New UNIO issue now online

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The Editorial Board is happy to announce that a new issue of the UNIO – EU Law Journal is now online. Issue 10(2) of UNIO includes contributions from a number of highly esteemed academics and young scholars and covers matters such as i) the EU’s conditionality regulation; ii) an analysis of the new far-right movements; iii) the digitalisation of criminal justice in the EU through eu-LISA cooperation with Eurojust and Europol; iv) the taxation of energy products in the EU for reasons of environmental policy; v) digital constitutionalism; vi) the use of technology for inter-jurisdictional cooperation in the inter-American context; and vi) the pivotal role of digital currencies.

It is our hope that this new edition will be of relevance to our readers and would also like to remind you that we are accepting submissions at UNIO and also on our blog.

You may find UNIO’s 10(2) issue here.

New open access publication available – The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: A Commentary

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We are pleased to announce the release of the English version of the Commentary on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, coordinated by Alessandra Silveira, Larissa Araújo Coelho, Maria Inês Costa and Tiago Sérgio Cabral. This work is an important addition to our continuous work (within the JusGov research centre) to build a body of publications that contribute to the advancement of legal knowledge on fundamental rights in the context of the European Union and is an extensive update of the Portuguese version published in 2013.

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New UNIO issue now online

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The Editorial Board is happy to announce that a new issue of the UNIO – EU Law Journal is now online. The 10(1) issue of UNIO includes contributions from various highly respected scholars and young academics and heavily focuses on digital issues such as data protection and the challenges of regulating artificial intelligence.

We hope this new issue is relevant for our readers and would like to remind you that we are accepting submissions at UNIO and also at our blog.

You may find UNIO’s 10(1) issue here.

From the Official Journal to the Diário da República: the role of correlation tables and Lei 44/2023 in the transposition of EU Law into Portuguese Law

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Pedro Petiz Viana (Master in Law and Informatics from UMinho / LL.M. in European Law from Leiden University / EU Affairs Advisor in the Portuguese Parliament)
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Under Articles 258 and 260(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and in accordance with the principle of sincere cooperation laid down in Article 4(3) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), Member States have the obligation to notify the European Commission of the national measures transposing a Directive.

As affirmed by the Court of Justice of the European Union, this notification must “contain sufficiently clear and precise information on the substance of the national rules which transpose a Directive”,[1] so that the Commission is in a position to ascertain whether the Member State has genuinely and completely implemented the Directive.[2]

As stated by the Court in Commission v. Belgium, this notification may encompass a “correlation table”.[3] The European Commission, in its “Better Regulation Guidelines” also affirmed that this obligation to communicate may include the so-called “correspondence tables”.[4] [5]

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New UNIO issue now online

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The Editorial Board is happy to announce that a new issue of the UNIO – EU Law Journal is now online. The 9(2) issue of UNIO includes contributions from various highly respected scholars and young academics and addresses issues such as i) regulation and governance of artificial intelligence; ii) the European data market; iii) the influence of European Union personal data protection standards in Latin America; iv) decentralised energy production and its intersection with the right to the city and environmental, climate, and energy-related concerns; v) the European Union’s strategy for the circular economy; and vi) European cyberculture.

We hope this new issue is relevant for our readers and would like to remind you that we are accepting submissions at UNIO and also at our blog.

You may find UNIO’s 9(2) issue here.

New UNIO issue now online

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The Editorial Board is happy to announce that a new issue of the UNIO – EU Law Journal is now fully online. The 9(1) issue of UNIO includes contributions from various highly respected scholars and young academics and addresses issues such as a) peacekeeping and crisis management in the current context of international relations, b) discrimination in the digital era, c) algorithmic discrimination, d) personal data and children’s rights, e) the Brussels Effect in the context of data protection in Latin America, and f) and the relationship between sustainability and procedural law.

We hope this new issue pleases both our readers and authors and would like to remind you that we are accepting submissions at UNIO and also at our blog.

You may find UNIO’s 9(1) issue here.

New UNIO issue now online

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The Editorial Board is happy to announce that a new issue of the UNIO – EU Law Journal is now online. The 8(2) issue of UNIO includes contributions from various highly respected scholars and young academics and addresses issues such as a) the deployment of public consultations and referenda in the context specially important political issues (e.g. secession), b) ecological transition, c) tools available to the EU to combat rule of law backsliding, d) the common European asylum system, e) fostering equality and non-discrimination in the EU, and f) and the existence of legal remedies under the GDPR to challenge automated decision-making and profiling resulting in unjustified inferences about a data subject.

We hope this new issue pleases both our readers and authors and would like to remind you that we are accepting submissions at UNIO and also at our blog.

You may find UNIO’s 8(2) issue here.

New CitDig website

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On 1 October 2022 the European Commission awarded a “Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence” to the University of Minho under the Erasmus+ Programme. It is entitled “Digital citizenship and technological sustainability: pursuing the effectiveness of the CFREU in the digital decade” (CitDig) and is coordinated by Alessandra Silveira. In this context, CitDig presents its new website and electronic repository entitled “Espaço UNIO”, under which content related to European Union law will be made available, through various formats that record the interaction between its researchers.

You may find CitDig’s new website and the Espaço UNIO repository here: http://citdig.direito.uminho.pt/en/.