Flux européens

Irlande / Commission
Aide d'État
Le Tribunal confirme la décision de la Commission ordonnant le remboursement des exonérations fiscales accordées par la France, l’Irlande et l'Italie en faveur de la production d’alumine

Irlande / Commission
Aide d'État
Le Tribunal confirme la décision de la Commission ordonnant le remboursement des exonérations fiscales accordées par la France, l’Irlande et l'Italie en faveur de la production d’alumine

Irlande / Commission
Aide d'État
Le Tribunal confirme la décision de la Commission ordonnant le remboursement des exonérations fiscales accordées par la France, l’Irlande et l'Italie en faveur de la production d’alumine

Clayton P. Gillette, Steven D. Walt, The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2016, ISBN 9781316604168, pp. 451, GBP 37,99.

[Dal sito dell’editore] – Updated and expanded for the second edition, this volume provides attorneys, academics and students with a detailed yet accessible overview of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Adopted by more than eighty nations and governing a significant portion of international sales, the CISG regulates contract formation, performance, risk of loss, conformity to contractual requirements and remedies for breach. This volume explains the CISG doctrines and their ambiguities, and appraises the extent to which the doctrines reduce transaction costs for commercial actors. Its topic-based approach will be ideal for those pursuing academic analysis or subject-specific research.

Il sommario dell’opera è consultabile qui. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili a questo indirizzo.

Ledra Advertising / Commission et BCE
Politique économique
Selon les avocats généraux Wathelet et Wahl, le Tribunal a, à bon droit, rejeté les recours en annulation et en indemnité concernant la restructuration du secteur bancaire chypriote

Ledra Advertising / Commission et BCE
Politique économique
Selon les avocats généraux Wathelet et Wahl, le Tribunal a, à bon droit, rejeté les recours en annulation et en indemnité concernant la restructuration du secteur bancaire chypriote

Ledra Advertising / Commission et BCE
Politique économique
Selon les avocats généraux Wathelet et Wahl, le Tribunal a, à bon droit, rejeté les recours en annulation et en indemnité concernant la restructuration du secteur bancaire chypriote

Radlinger et Radlingerová
Rapprochement des législations
La Cour constate que l’obligation du juge national d’examiner d’office le respect des règles du droit de l’Union en matière de protection des consommateurs s’applique aux procédures d’insolvabilité

Radlinger et Radlingerová
Rapprochement des législations
La Cour constate que l’obligation du juge national d’examiner d’office le respect des règles du droit de l’Union en matière de protection des consommateurs s’applique aux procédures d’insolvabilité

Khachab
Espace de liberté, sécurité et justice
Les États membres peuvent refuser une demande de regroupement familial s’il ressort d’une évaluation prospective que le regroupant ne disposera pas de ressources stables, régulières et suffisantes durant l’année suivant la date de dépôt de la demande

Khachab
Espace de liberté, sécurité et justice
Les États membres peuvent refuser une demande de regroupement familial s’il ressort d’une évaluation prospective que le regroupant ne disposera pas de ressources stables, régulières et suffisantes durant l’année suivant la date de dépôt de la demande

New Valmar
Libre circulation des personnes
Selon l’avocat général Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe, l’obligation prévue par un décret de la Communauté flamande d’établir des factures transfrontalières exclusivement en néerlandais, sous peine de nullité, enfreint le droit de l’Union

Each year, the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law awards a certain number of scholarships to support academic research in the field of comparative and international law.

As for the year 2017, the Institute especially welcomes applications on the topics of Business and Human Rights and Communication and Internet law.

Preference shall be given to applicants who have never carried out research activities outside their country of origin and wish to pursue an academic career.  Fluency in at least two of the following languages is required: English, French and German.

The deadline for submitting applications is 30 June 2016.

The call for applications can be downloaded here. Further information is available at the following link.

Cross-border Litigation in Europe: the Brussels I Recast Regulation as a Panacea?, a cura di Franco Ferrari e Francesca Ragno, Cedam, 2016, pp. XIII-190, ISBN: 9788813358310, Euro 29.

[Dal sito dell’editore] – The Brussels I Regime […] is widely considered to be the foundation stone of a “European Law of Procedure” and to have enhanced cross-border litigation in Europe through an efficient system of judicial cooperation based on comprehensive jurisdiction rules, coordination of parallel proceedings, and circulation of judgments. In spite of its overall success, the system has been viewed as in need of modernization and has undergone a revision process, which led to the adoption of the EU Regulation No 1215/2012 (the “Brussels I Recast Regulation”), which became applicable on 10 January 2015. In this book, various authors examine in detail the most important changes introduced by this instrument, focus on the issues still open and address the problems arising out of the coexistence of the new Regulation with other instruments in force in Europe. Not unlike the previous book on the Brussels I Recast Proposal published in this series, this volume aims at contributing to what has been an exciting discussion in the past and is likely to be so for years to come.

Il volume racchiude gli atti del convegno tenutosi a Verona il 28 e 29 novembre 2014, già segnalato in questo post.

Maggiori informazioni e l’indice dell’opera sono disponibili a questo indirizzo.

Dalli / Commission
Droit institutionnel
La Cour confirme l’irrecevabilité du recours de l’ancien commissaire John Dalli au sujet de sa démission prétendument exigée par l’ex-président Barroso

La finale européenne du concours « European Law Moot Court » aura lieu le 15 avril à la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne à Luxembourg

The topic of the 28th Conference of Private International Law of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, organised in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of the University of Neuchâtel, is Les banques et les assurances face aux tiers et les nouveautés en matière de faillite internationale.

The conference will take place in Lausanne on 27th May 2016.

The morning session will present recent developments in international bankruptcy, with a particular focus on the draft revision of the Swiss Federal Act on Private International Law, the practical impact of bankruptcy on civil proceedings and arbitration, as well as issues of international bankruptcy in banking.

The afternoon session will address legal relationships that involve three parties, focusing in particular on the situation of banks and insurance companies vis-à-vis third parties. Recent developments in Switzerland and the EU will be examined, including the issue of third party’s right to obtain banking information in the context of successions.

Presentations will be in French and English.

For the full program please see here. Registrations at news@isdc.ch.

Thank you Fieke van Overbeeke for pointing this out to me. The EC have proposed to amend the posted workers Directive, to address unfair practices and promote the principle that the same work at the same place be remunerated in the same manner.

The amendment essentially relates to Article 8(2) of the Rome I Regulation, which partially corrects choice of law made in the context of contracts for employment. The proposal amounts to Union harmonisation of the concept ‘temporary employment’, as one not exceeding 24 months.

The proposal, if adopted, would insert an Article 2a in the posted workers Directive, 96/71, as follows:

Article 2a
Posting exceeding twenty-four months
1. When the anticipated or the effective duration of posting exceeds twenty-four
months, the Member State to whose territory a worker is posted shall be deemed to
be the country in which his or her work is habitually carried out.
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1, in case of replacement of posted workers
performing the same task at the same place, the cumulative duration of the posting
periods of the workers concerned shall be taken into account, with regard to workers
that are posted for an effective duration of at least six months.

Recitals 6-8 give context:

(6) The Rome I Regulation generally permits employers and employees to choose the law
applicable to the employment contract. However, the employee must not be deprived
of the protection of the mandatory rules of the law of the country in which or, failing
that, from which the employee habitually carries out his work. In the absence of
choice, the contract is governed by the law of the country in which or, failing that,
from which the employee habitually carries out his work in performance of the
contract.
(7) The Rome I Regulation provides that the country where the work is habitually carried
out shall not be deemed to have changed if he is temporarily employed in another
country.
(8) In view of the long duration of certain posting assignments, it is necessary to provide
that, in case of posting lasting for periods higher than 24 months, the host Member
State is deemed to be the country in which the work is carried out. In accordance with
the principle of Rome I Regulation, the law of the host Member Sates therefore applies
to the employment contract of such posted workers if no other choice of law was made
by the parties. In case a different choice was made, it cannot, however, have the result
of depriving the employee of the protection afforded to him by provisions that cannot
be derogated from by agreement under the law of the host Member State. This should
apply from the start of the posting assignment whenever it is envisaged for more than
24 months and from the first day subsequent to the 24 months when it effectively
exceeds this duration. This rule does not affect the right of undertakings posting
workers to the territory of another Member State to invoke the freedom to provide
services in circumstances also where the posting exceeds 24 months. The purpose is
merely to create legal certainty in the application of the Rome I Regulation to a
specific situation, without amending that Regulation in any way. The employee will in
particular enjoy the protection and benefits pursuant to the Rome I Regulation.

It would obviously be attractive to ensure the same rule is verbatim included in a future amendment of the Rome I Regulation.

Geert.

 

(Handbook of) EU Private International Law, 2nd ed 2016, Chapter 3, Heading 3.2.5.

Entrée en fonction de nouveaux juges au Tribunal de l’Union européenne et au Tribunal de la fonction publique de l’Union européenne

General Principles of European Private International Law, a cura di Stefan Leible, Kluwer Law International, 2016, p. 416, ISBN: 9789041159557, Euro 145.

[Dal sito dell’editore] – European private international law, as it stands in the Rome I, II, and III Regulations and the recent Succession Regulation, presents manifold risks of diverging judgments despite seemingly harmonised conflict of law rules. There is now a real danger, in light of the rapid increase in the number of legal instruments of the European Union on conflict of laws, that European private international law will become incoherent. This collection of essays by twenty noted scholars in the field sheds clear light on the pivotal issues of whether a set of overarching rules (a ‘general part’) is required, whether an EU regulation is the adequate legal instrument for such a purpose, which general questions such an instrument should address, and what solutions such an instrument should provide. In analysing the possible emergence of general principles in European private international law over the past years, the contributors discuss such issues and factors as the following: a) the relationship between conflict of laws and recognition; b) the room for party autonomy; c) the concept of habitual residence; d) adaptation when interplay between different laws leads to deadlock; e) public policy exceptions; f) the desirability of a general escape clause; g) the classic topics of characterisation, incidental question, and renvoi; and h) right to appeal in case of errors in the application of foreign law. Practitioners dealing with these notoriously difficult cases will welcome this in-depth treatment of the issues, as will interested policymakers throughout the EU Member States and at the EU level itself. Scholars will discover an incomparable comparative analysis leading to expert recommendations in European private international law, opening the way to an effective European framework in this area.

Ulteriori informazioni  e il sommario del volume sono disponibili qui.