Date of decision: 5 March 2020
Jurisdiction: UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Country: Spain
Legal basis: Violation of the Right to adequate housing, Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:
Subject: Eviction from rented property without alternative accommodation.
FEANTSA and the Fondation Abbé Pierre recently launched the Fifth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe 2020.
The complaint was registered on 12 July 2019. It concerns Article E read in conjunction with 1§2 (the right to work), 11§1 (the right to protection of health), 12§1 (the right to social security), 13§1 (the right to social and medical assistance), 15§3 (the right of persons with disabilities to independence, social integration and participation in the life of the community), 16 (the right of the family to social, legal and economic protection) and 17 (the right of children and young persons to social, legal and economic protection).
Language : English
Date of the decision: 19 December 2020
Country: Ireland
Jurisdiction: Court of Justice of the European Union
Preliminary ruling
Article 2(a) of Directive 2000/31/EC on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (‘Directive on electronic commerce’)
In a decision this past 18th of July, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled against a constitutional complaint alleging that the 2015 Tenancy Law Amendment Act violated certain articles of German Basic Law.
Warsaw, September 2018
