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La Cour confirme que le régime de financement de la télévision publique espagnole (RTVE) est compatible avec les règles de l’Union en matière d’aides d’État

Simba Toys / EUIPO
Propriété intellectuelle et industrielle MARQ
La Cour annule l’arrêt du Tribunal et la décision de l’EUIPO qui validaient l’enregistrement de la forme du Rubik’s cube comme marque de l’Union

Commission / Grèce
Environnement et consommateurs
La Cour constate que la Grèce a manqué à son obligation de protéger les tortues marines Caretta caretta dans la baie de Kyparissia

The e-Justice portal, run by the Commission, features a dynamic form intended to help getting in touch with the national contact points of the European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters. To know more about the tasks of the contact points, the kind of requests they can handle and those entitled to address such requests to the contact points, reference must be made to the decision that established the Network (decision 2001/470/EC, as amended by decision 2009/568/EC: the consolidated version may be found here).

È disponibile sul portale e-Justice, gestito dalla Commissione, un modulo dinamico inteso a facilitare le comunicazioni con i punti di contatto nazionali della Rete giudiziaria europea in materia civile e commerciale. Le funzioni dei punti di contatto, il genere di richieste di cui essi possono fasi carico e i soggetti autorizzati a rivolgersi a loro si ricavano dalla decisione istitutiva della Rete (decisione 2001/470/CE, nel testo consolidato risultante dalle modifiche apportate con la decisione 2009/568/CE).

Home Credit Slovakia
Rapprochement des législations PROT
L’omission du prêteur d’un crédit à la consommation d’inclure dans le contrat certaines informations essentielles peut être sanctionnée par la déchéance du droit aux intérêts et aux frais

Lehman Brothers [2016] EWHC 2699 (Comm) does not involve conflict of laws. Yet its discussion of the notion of ‘close of business’ reminded me of the relevance of Article 12(2) Rome I:

In relation to the manner of performance and the steps to be taken in the event of defective performance, regard shall be had to the law of the country in which performance takes place.

Lex loci solutionis supplements lex contractus for factual considerations such as closing times.

In the case at issue, between parties, a notice had to be served ‘by close of business’. A relevant fax transmission started at 5:54 PM and ended at 6:02 PM. Close of business by sender, it was alleged, was understood to be 7 PM. Recipient claimed COB was 5 PM. Blair J in para 147 ff justifiably points to the intention of flexibility behind the notion of COB: had parties wanted a precise cut-off time, they would and should have specified it. The High Court therefore relied on the (little) evidence given as to COB and accepted that in the modern world of commercial banking and even leaving aside the near non-existence of closing hours for investment bankers and the like, more or less 7 PM should be considered COB. (It was specifically stated that no precedent value can be attached to that time slot).

Geert.

(Handbook of) EU Private international law, 2nd ed. 2016, Chapter 3.

The Universities of Genoa, Valencia, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Mainz, the Turība University, the Charles University in Prague, the Institute of Private International Law in Sofia, and IPR Verlag Munich are conducting a research project, co-funded by the European Union, to collect and develop private and procedural international law best practices in cross-border insolvency and pre-insolvency proceedings. Practitioners and academics are invited to answer (anonymously) to a questionnaire elaborated to this effect. The questionnaire is available here. 

Le Università di Genova, Valencia, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Magonza, la Biznesa augstskola Turība, la Charles University di Praga, l’Istituto di Diritto internazionale privato di Sofia e la casa editrice IPR Verlag di Monaco di Baviera stanno conducendo un progetto di ricerca,co-finanziato dall’Unione europea, volto alla collezione ed allo sviluppo di best practices di diritto internazionale privato e processuale in materia di insolvenza e pre-insolvenza transfrontaliera. Pratici ed accademici sono invitati a rispondere (in modo anonimo) a un questionario predisposto a questo fine.  Il questionario è disponibile qui.

À l’initiative des avocats parisiens Laure Heinlich et Dominique Tricaud, plusieurs avocats ont signé unre tribune, parue dans le journal Le Monde, afin de demander la suppression de la procédure dite « de comparution immédiate » (voir l’article). Les signataires alertent sur le dévoyement de cette procédure, naguère utilisée pour traiter des affaires de petite délinquance, lorsque l’auteur était surpris en flagrant délit.

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La Belgique, finalement mandatée par le Parlement de Wallonie, signe l’accord de libre échange Canada - Union européenne, mais ne lève pas les doutes sur la date exacte de son entrée en vigueur.
 

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Il existait un « besoin social impérieux » de dissoudre Les Authentiks et Supras Auteuil 91, deux associations de supporters du Paris-Saint-Germain, estime la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme.

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A workshop is scheduled to take place at the European Parliament on 8 November 2016 to discuss the Commission’s proposal to recast Regulation No 2201/2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgements in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility. A compilation of the speakers’ briefings is available here.

Il Parlamento europeo ospita, l’8 novembre 2016, un seminario dedicato alla proposta della Commissione concernente la rifusione del regolamento n. 2201/2003 sulla competenza giurisdizionale, il riconoscimento e l’esecuzione delle decisioni in materia matrimoniale e di responsabilità genitoriale. Il testo delle relazioni è disponibile a questo indirizzo.