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La finale européenne du concours de la « European Law Moot Court » se tiendra le 31 mars à la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne à Luxembourg

Fidenato e.a.
Environnement et consommateurs AGRI
Selon l’avocat général Bobek, les États membres ne peuvent adopter des mesures d’urgence concernant des denrées alimentaires et des aliments pour animaux génétiquement modifiés que s’ils peuvent établir, outre l’urgence, un risque important et manifeste pour la santé et l’environnement

Concurrence - compétence exclusive prévue par l'article
L. 721-5 du code de commerce - statut commercial de certaines parties

Concurrence - compétence exclusive des juridictions désignées
par le code de commerce - fin de non-recevoir relaxé d'office

Concurrence - compétence exclusive des juridictions désignées
par le code de commerce - Cour d'appel compétente

Prêt - clause d'indexation - obligation d'information

Prêt - clause d'indexation - obligation d'information

Presse - protection des droits de la personne

Santé publique

Appel correctionnel ou de police - action civile

Appel correctionnel ou de police - action civile

On Friday, 12 May 2017, Professor Sabine Corneloup and Alexandre Boiché will organize a symposium on the recast of the Brussels IIbis Regulation in Paris. The following announcement has been kindly provided by Professor Corneloup:

“On June 30th 2016, the European Commission submitted a proposal for the revision of Regulation n° 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility. While the overall operation of the Regulation is considered to be satisfactory, the Regulation has shortcomings and lacks clarity on some points, in particular with regard to questions of parental responsibility. Problems encountered include excessive delays, caused by imprecisions in the Regulation on the length of proceedings, or by the necessity to obtain the exequatur. Cross-border recognition and enforcement of decisions are still too often hampered by divergent national practices, may it be the hearing of the child or the enforcement measures that may be taken. Furthermore, the role of the central authorities has not been defined with sufficient precision, possibly leading to dysfunctional cross-border cooperation, thus jeopardizing mutual trust between Member States and the protection of the fundamental rights of children. Regarding matrimonial matters, on the other hand, the Commission proposes the status quo: choice of court agreements are not among the innovations selected.
The symposium brings together experts from the academic and institutional worlds as well as from the bar, who share their experience in order to work together to reach solutions to the problems and shortcomings observed.”

The full programme is available here.

The event will take place at:

University Paris II, Panthéon-Assas
Centre Vaugirard 1
391 rue de Vaugirard
75015 Paris
France

The conference will be held in French.

For further information and registration, please contact Ms Laurence Tacquard:
+ 33 1 44 41 56 01
laurence.tacquard@u-paris2.fr

Closely linked to my post this morning re Chiquita and CSR, here’s a review of the French CSR corporate vigilance /duty of care Act. I had planned to do my own review but hey, why re-invent the wheel when Ms Bergkamp’s is ticking over nicely.
See also a follow up post here http://bit.ly/2ofirlK on the French Constitutional court seeing little issue with the civil liability side of the Act.

Corporate Finance Lab

On 21 February 2017, the French Parliament adopted a law (the “Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law” or “Law”) that creates novel corporate supply chain liability. Specifically, the Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law imposes a duty of vigilance on large companies to prevent serious violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms and serious environmental damage in their supply chain. In a previous post, I discussed the concept of supply chain liability. As I pointed out there, the concept had not been defined by law makers yet. The French legislature has now attempted to operationalize the concept through new legislation.

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The title of this post is a result of my confusion on the state of various suits against Chiquita, on alleged collusion in or perpetration of human rights abuses in Columbia. I had reported earlier (scroll down to ‘update on linked development’; this hyperlinks to all relevant links) that the US Supreme Court had denied certiorari in a ruling of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Miami. This left that ruling standing (a strict application of SCOTUS’ view in Kiobel).

End November (I had tweeted it at the time; my ledger has not left me an opportunity to post on it since) the Southern District court of Florida dismissed an application on forum non conveniens grounds in what must be related litigation. Except my limited knowledge of jurisdictional levels in the US leaves me in doubt where the link is between these two developments (US readers please assist if you can).

At any rate, the ruling reviewed here is a textbook example of forum non conveniens (motion dismissed, nota bene) and a great source for a comparative conflicts class. Such as I teach at Monash :-).

Geert.

(Handbook of) European Private international law, 2nd ed. 2016, Chapter 2, Heading 2.2.14.5.

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Etat d'urgence ; Lois et règlements

Etat d'urgence ; Lois et règlements

Atteinte à l'autorité de l'Etat

Rosneft
Relations extérieures
Les mesures restrictives adoptées par le Conseil dans le cadre de la crise de l’Ukraine à l’encontre de certaines entreprises russes, dont Rosneft, sont valides