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Quels sont les principaux défis et opportunités de l’Union pour les dix prochaines années ? C’est la question à laquelle la Commission européenne a tenté de répondre en publiant, le 1er mars 2017, son livre blanc relatif à l’avenir de l’Europe, illustrant cinq scénarios potentiellement envisageables en 2025.

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The Special Commission set up by the Council on General Affairs and Policy of the Hague Conference on Private International Law to prepare a preliminary draft convention on the recognition of judgments in civil and commercial matters (the Judgments Project) met for the second time between 16 and 24 February 2017.

Building on the draft text elaborated in 2016, the Special Commission completed a new draft (the February 2017 draft Convention), which should form the basis for a new round of discussions in November 2017.

The Special Commission set up by the Council on General Affairs and Policy of the Hague Conference on Private International Law to prepare a preliminary draft convention on the recognition of judgments in civil and commercial matters (the Judgments Project) met for the second time between 16 and 24 February 2017.

Building on the draft text elaborated in 2016, the Special Commission completed a new draft (the February 2017 draft Convention), which should form the basis for a new round of discussions in November 2017.

Dear Martin, dear all,

We would like to take the opportunity and thank you, Martin, very much for setting up and taking care of the blog for more than 10 years! Under your supervision the blog has developed into one of the leading and most influential platforms in the field of conflict of laws and this is a great achievement.

We also thank you and the other editors for entrusting us with the responsibility for this blog, and we will certainly try to continue its success story in close cooperation with all editors and readers. We will keep you posted on how we will proceed in the future and hope for your continued support and input.

Giesela and Matthias

A short working paper by Veerle Van Den Eeckhout on Private International Law in an Era of Globalisation has been published on SSRN. It is written in Dutch.

The English abstract reads as follows:

In times of (discussions about) globalisation, due attention must be given to the operation of rules of private international law. Examination of the ongoing developments in private international law itself and in private international law in its interaction with other disciplines from the perspective of “protection of weak parties” and “protection of planetary common goods” allows carrying out the analysis to which current developments invite.

 

Conseil de Prud'hommes de Paris, 27 février 2017

The Court held  yesterday in Zulfikarpašić Case C-484/15. I review Bot AG ‘s Opinion here.  At issue is the interpretation of ‘court’ and ‘judgment’ in the European enforcement order Regulation. Mutatis mutandis therefore the case has implications for most other EU private international law instruments, which employ similar terms. In all of these Regulations, the terms ‘court’ and ‘judgment’ are under- or not at all defined. The CJEU in fact refers to considerations under the Brussels I Recast in its judgment yesterday.

For the determination of a ‘court’ the AG had emphasised guarantees as to independence and impartiality; the power to decide on one’s own authority; leading to a finding which was or may be subject to an exchange of arguments and may be challenged before a judicial authority. The AG had suggested that whether these conditions are fulfilled is for the national courts to assess.

The Court itself referred to a number of classic principles for the interpretation of EU private international law: autonomous interpretation; mutual trust; legitimate expectations. It then reformulated but essentially suggests similar criteria as its AG: for a finding to be qualified as a judgment, it must have been delivered in court proceedings offering guarantees of independence and impartiality and of compliance with the principle of audi alteram partem (at 43).In the Croatian procedure at issue, the notary issues an authentic instrument which, if it is challenged as to its content, is moved up the pecking order to court proceedings. The proceedings before the notary not meeting with the Court’s generic criteria, in contrast with the AG the Court itself already holds that the notaries at issue do not act as courts and their decisions are not ‘judgments’.

Geert.

European private international law, second ed. 2016, Chapter 2, Heading 2.2.16.1.1. Chapter 6, Heading 6.2.1.

 

We’re very sorry for our disappearance over the last week or so, and we’re grateful to those of you who alerted members of our team to the problems in accessing the site. As it transpired, the problem was quite a serious one, and it has involved a great deal of fuss and bother to resolve it. But we are now back, and we’re back for good.

Those technical problems, however, have also highlighted the need for conflictoflaws.net to be cared for properly, which I no longer have the time to do. I created this website back in April 2006, with the simple aim of keeping up-to-date on a large and complex subject that I was researching as a postgrad. Since then, the site has grown beyond all measure, and that really is down to the core of committed scholars who keep the content interesting and useful for us all. It is time that we allowed other colleagues to steer the future of this website, and take it forward into the next decade. I’m very pleased to say that Giesela Rühl and Matthias Weller have offered to take on that responsibility, and I wish them every success. I shall be cheering them on from the sidelines as, like all of you, I will remain an avid reader of conflictoflaws.net.

All the best, Martin George

Irrecevabilité

Conseil de prud'hommes des Sables d'Olonne, 1er mars 2017

Entreprise en difficulté (loi du 26 juillet 2005) - responsabilité et la
sanction - responsabilité pour insuffisance d'actif

Entreprise en difficulté (loi du 26 juillet 2005) - nullité des actes de
la période suspecte - action en nullité

Entreprise en difficulté (loi du 26 juillet 2005) - liquidation judiciaire - réalisation des actifs - Vente aux enchères publiques

UNION EUROPEENNE - Traité sur le fonctionnement de l'Union européenne

Contrats et obligations conventionnelles - exception de nullité -
caractère perpétuel

Sécurité sociale - cotisations - assiette

Etat civil

Piringer
SERV
Les États membres peuvent réserver aux notaires la faculté d’authentifier les signatures apposées sur les documents nécessaires à la création ou au transfert de droits réels immobiliers

Zulfikarpašić
Espace de liberté, sécurité et justice
Les notaires en Croatie, agissant dans les procédures d’exécution forcée sur le fondement d’un « document faisant foi », ne peuvent être qualifiés de « juridiction » ni au sens du règlement sur le titre exécutoire européen ni aux fins de l’application du règlement sur la reconnaissance et l’exécution des décisions en matière civile et commerciale

Manni
Rapprochement des législations
La Cour considère qu’il n’existe pas de droit à l’oubli pour les données à caractère personnel figurant dans le registre des sociétés