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Engagement solennel devant la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne d’un nouveau membre de la Cour des comptes européenne

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Rapprochement des législations
En n’adoptant pas des actes concernant la spécification des critères scientifiques pour la détermination des propriétés perturbant le système endocrinien, la Commission a violé le droit de l’Union

Le Conseil d’État, dans une décision rendue le 9 décembre dernier, a prononcé un sursis à statuer sur la requête de l’Ordre des avocats de Paris, contre une décision implicite de rejet du Premier Ministre. Ce dernier n’avait pas répondu à la demande de l’Ordre, présentée le 16 juin 2014, qui lui demandait d’abroger les dispositions des articles 205 et 206 de l’annexe II du CGI, qui ne permettent pas la déduction, par les particuliers non soumis à TVA, de cette taxe dont ils s’acquittent lorsqu’ils rémunèrent un avocat pour des services juridiques dans le cadre d’une action en justice.

En carrousel matière:  Non Matières OASIS:  Néant

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Convention européenne des droits de l'homme - Article 10
- Liberté d'expression

Immunité ; Instruction

Claudio Biscaretti di Ruffìa, Alberto Santa Maria, Le società estere, in Trattato Cicu-Messineo, Giuffrè, 2015, pp. XIV – 340, ISBN: 9788814209703, Euro 42.

Ulteriori informazioni sul volume sono reperibili al sito dell’editore. L’indice dell’opera è disponibile qui.

La Commission européenne a adopté le 2 décembre 2015 son nouveau paquet législatif relatif à l’économie circulaire, basé sur une écoconception de l’utilisation des ressources destinée à favoriser une croissance durable à travers l’Union européenne. 

En carrousel matière:  Oui Matières OASIS:  Néant

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Révision et réexamen des décisions pénales

I have referred repeatedly in the past to an inevitable attraction which some find in harmonising private, incuding contract law, in the Member States. The Common European Sales Law (CESL) proposal is dead, and for good reason. Its demise however has not led to the European Commission leaving the path of harmonisation in contract law. The EC has now selected bits and pieces of the CESL approach which it reckons might pass Member States objections. The proposed ‘fully harmonised’ rules on e-commerce formally do not close the door on party autonomy in the contracts under their scope of application. Yet in forcing regulatory convergence top-down, the aim is to make choice of law for these contracts effectively nugatory.

The EC itself formulates it as follows (COM(2015)634, p.1:

“This initiative is composed of (i) a proposal on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content (COM(2015)634 final), and (ii) a proposal on certain aspects concerning contracts for the online and other distance sales of goods (COM(2015)635 final). These two proposals draw on the experience acquired during the negotiations for a Regulation on a Common European Sales Law. In particular, they no longer follow the approach of an optional regime and a comprehensive set of rules. Instead, the proposals contain a targeted and focused set of fully harmonised rules.”

Consequently the same proposal reads in recital 49 ‘Nothing in this Directive should prejudice the application of the rules of private international law, in particular Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and the Council‘: that is, respectively, Rome I and Brussels I Recast’.

Consequently and gradually, choice of law for digital B2C contracts becomes redundant, for the content of national law converges. Support for this in my view is not rooted in fact (the EC’s data on the need for regulation have not fundamentally changed since its doomed CESL proposal), neither is it a good development even for the consumer. National consumer law is able to adapt, often precisely to the benefit of the consumer, through national Statute and case-law. Turning the EU regulatory tanker is much more cumbersome. The circular economy, recently often debated, is a case in point. Many national authorities point to limitations in contract law (incuding warranty periods and design requirements) as an obstacle to forcing manufacturers, including for consumer goods, to adopt more sustainable manufacturing and distribution models. The EC’s current proposals do no meet those challenges, rather, they obstruct them.

Geert.

On 4 February 2016, the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 will host a workshop on Global Phenomena and Social Sciences.

The event will feature five panels, which will address the topic, respectively, from the point of view of politics, business, economics, anthropology and law.

Among the speakers of the latter panel, Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (Univ. Jean Moulin Lyon 3) will talk of Border Crossing Phenomenon and the Law.

Further information in the flier of the initiative.