Program

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2025

18:00
Introduction of a Global Minimum Tax
Presentation of selected research results (funded by the Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) – No. 18760)
Georg Kofler

18:30
Reception
At the premises of the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU Vienna, Building D3, 2nd floor

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2025

Working sessions will take place at the campus of WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, LC building, in Ceremonial Hall 1 (LC.0.001).

08:30 – 09:00
Registration

09:00 – 10:30
Session 1 - Chair: Michael Lang

Belgium – Edoardo Traversa
104/2025/8267 UTPR request
C-436/23 Volvo Group Belgium
C-135/24 John Cockerill SA
C-524/23 Commission vs Belgium
C-662/24 Commission vs Belgium
C-150/25 Marhaux

Germany – Roland Ismer & Alexander Rust
C-142/24 Familienstiftung
C-533/25 F Corporation (Free Movement Capital) - Bundesfinanzhof
C-477/25 State Aid - Bundesfinanzhof
C-223/25 Finanzamt Siegburg/Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons – Tax Court Cologne

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30
Session 2 - Chair: Pasquale Pistone
Luxembourg - Werner Haslehner
C-138/24 Commission vs Luxembourg

Sweden - Bertil Wiman & Katia Cejie
C-241/25 Société Générale
C-577/25 Commission vs Sweden

12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30
Session 3 - Chair: Rita Szudoczky
Austria - Claus Staringer
C-602/23 Finanzamt für Großbetriebe
C-475/25 Finanzamt für Großbetriebe
BFG 7. 3. 2025, RV/7102685/2022, RV/7103283/2023

Netherlands - Eric Kemmeren & Daniël Smit
C-492/25 Ottman
C-493/25 Bolring
C-494/25 Reintkamp

15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30
Session 4 - Chair: Daniel Blum
Poland - Karolina Tetlak
C-18/23 Dyrektor Krajowej Informacji Skarbowej
C-197/25 A
C-430/25 Gena
C-434/25 Sanofi

Norway - Eivind Furuseth
23-035418TVI-TOSL/03

18:15
Meeting Point for Departure to Heurigen Dinner at Hotel Spark by Hilton (bus transfer)

19:00
Typical Viennese Heurigen Dinner at "Fuhrgassl-Huber" by invitation of the Mayor of Vienna

22:00
Return to Hotel Spark by Hilton (bus transfer)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2025

09:00 – 10:30
Session 5 - Chair: Claus Staringer

Italy – Guglielmo Maisto
C-92/24 - C-94/24 Banca Mediolanum
C-592/24 Société Générale

Latvia – Māris Jurušs
C-497/25 Maxima

Czech Republic – Ondřej Málek
C-828/24 Erdrich Umformtechnik

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30
Session 6 - Chair: Alexander Rust

Spain – José Manuel Almudí Cid
C-601/23 Credit Suisse Securities
C-139/25 IShares Europe
C-776/23 - C-780/23 Commission vs Spain
C-874/24 Commission vs Spain

Slovakia – Matej Kačaljak
C-201/24, A.En. Slovensko s.r.o.

12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00
Session 7 - Chair: Nevia Cicin-sain

Lithuania – Aistė Medelienė
C-228/24 Nordcurrent Group
C-203/25 Neo Group

France – Marilyne Sadowsky
C-287/25 OP mobility
C-288/25 - C-289/25 Société Générale

15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30
Closing Panel: Current Trends in Direct Taxation - Part I Chair: Georg Kofler

Panellists:
Philip Baker
Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford
Bernd Hammermann
Judge at the EFTA Court
David Hummel
Référendaire in the cabinet of AG Kokott at the CJEU,
Professor at the Universität Leipzig
Wim Roels
European Commission

16:30 – 17:30
Closing Panel: Current Trends in Direct Taxation - Part II Chair: Rita Szudoczky

Panellists:
Melchior Wathelet
Former Attorney General at the CJEU
Richard Lyal
European Commission
Servatius van Thiel
Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel