week 11

11 null terms

actions/appeals
nouns
legal proceeding by which a case is brought before a higher court for review of the decision of a lower court.
Example: All the actions/appeals brought before the Court concerning glyphosate can be dealt through case law.
fr: recours
carbon quotas fraud
group of nouns
buyers importing carbon permits in one EU country without paying VAT and selling them in another, adding tax to the price but pocketing the difference for themselves.
Example: The cases concerned trafficking in carbon quotas fraud.
fr: fraude aux quotas carbone
case law
noun
the law as established by the outcome of former cases.
Example: Thus, in its case law research database, the Court distinguishes between two categories.
fr: jurisprudence
cases
noun
an instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring.
Example: Eurojust registered a total of 68 cases of environmental crime last year.
fr: dossier
criminal analysis file
group of nouns
To identify crime patterns and establish links between perpetrators and investigations, we need advanced tools to process and analyze this data. We manage this through what we call Criminal Analysis Files, which are databases that store and structure information and enable us to generate our analytical reports.
Example: In 2017, Europol set up/implemented the criminal analysis file entitled/named "Envicrime".
fr: fichier d'analyse criminelle
judicial authority
nouns
any court, arbitrator, special master, receiver, tribunal or similar body of any kind.
Example: As regard France, nine cases were opened at the request of a French judicial authority.
fr: autorité judiciaire
plant protection legislation
group of nouns
The Plant Protection Act provides that the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture may issue regulations "to prevent the introduction of plant pests into the United States or the dissemination of plant pests within the United States."
Example: Plant protection legislation is used a lot in the agricultural system across the world.
fr: législation phytosanitaire
preliminary rulings/reference
nouns
used when a national court or tribunal refers a question of EU law to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for a preliminary ruling so as to enable the national court, on receiving that ruling, to decide the case before it.
Example: This Court can be referred to by a preliminary rulings/reference.
fr: renvoi préjudiciel
ruling on the merits
present participle
case whose decision rests upon the law as it applied to the particular evidence and facts presented in the case.
Example: This criminal court ruled on the merits of the case.
fr: statuant au fond
to date
phrase
up to the present time
Example: To date, the file has processed 305 environmental crime cases across the EU.
fr: à ce jour
trafficking in
present participle
deal or trade in something illegal
Example: There are a lot of cases of trafficking in waste and in protected wild life species
fr: trafic de