Barbara Sandor

On January 16, 2025, Advocate General (AG) Tamara Ćapeta of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an Opinion in Case C-600/23, potentially upending the long-standing presumption that arbitral awards issued by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) are insulated from EU judicial review. The AG Opinion posits that when EU law is implicated, national courts cannot be precluded from scrutinizing CAS decisions, despite the res judicata effect of CAS awards.

In an unexpected move, on 31 January, the Hungarian government announced and enforced a critical change within just one hour late Friday night. The new regulation, published around 10 PM, became legally binding by 11 PM the very same evening, fundamentally reshaping the mandatory purchase price system (KÁT) for industrial-scale solar power producers. The inflation-adjusted mandatory purchase prices have been abolished overnight, directly impacting around 3,100 MW of industrial solar capacity.

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