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Save the Date – 14 November 2019

Workshop: Application of the “Second Generation” Regulations in The Netherlands

The Erasmus School of Law (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands) will host a second national workshop on Thursday, 14 November 2019 from 9.30-13.00 hrs, in the framework of the research project “Informed Choices in Cross-Border Enforcement” (IC2BE) (see our first workshop). This project (JUSTAG-2016-02) is funded by the Justice Programme (2014-2020) of the European Commission and aims to assess the functioning in practice of the “second generation” of EU regulations on procedural law for cross-border cases, i.e. the European Enforcement Order (“EEO”), European Order for Payment (“EPO”), European Small Claims (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2015/2421) (“ESCP”) and the European Account Preservation Order (“EAPO”) Regulations.

The project is carried out by a European consortium involving the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg and the universities of Antwerp, Complutense of Madrid, Milan, Rotterdam, and Wroclaw, and is coordinated by Prof. Jan von Hein from the University of Freiburg.

The workshop will present the findings of the research in the Netherlands and discuss these with experts from legal practice and academics, with the aim of assessing and improving the application of these instruments.

The language of the workshop is mostly Dutch. Practitioners and academics interested in cross-border litigation are invited to participate in this event. Detailed information on the program and (free of charge) registration will follow soon. Contact address for further information: ontanu@law.eur.nl

Régimes matrimoniaux

Régimes matrimoniaux

Indivision

Dziubak
Rapprochement des législations
Dans les contrats de prêt indexé sur une devise étrangère conclus en Pologne, les clauses abusives relatives à l’écart de change ne peuvent pas être remplacées par des dispositions générales du droit civil polonais

Glawischnig-Piesczek
Liberté d'établissement
Le droit de l’Union ne s’oppose pas à ce qu’un hébergeur tel que Facebook soit enjoint de supprimer des commentaires identiques et, sous certaines conditions, équivalents à un commentaire précédemment déclaré illicite

Dans cette décision, le Conseil constitutionnel déclare conforme à la Constitution le second alinéa de l’article 698-2 du code de procédure pénale, relatif à la poursuite des infractions commises par des militaires en temps de paix.

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On 25 and 26 October 2019 Benedetta Cappiello and Gherhardo Carullo from the Università degli Studi di Milano will host a conference dealing with blockchain from a legal perspective. The focus is on the positive effects that this technology can generate. Special attention is paid to projects that aim to promote sustainability through blockchain solutions. One of the panels is devoted to jurisdiction and the law applicable to smart contracts.

The conference aims at:

• offering a critical analysis of the potential benefits and legal risks of distributed ledger technologies;
• scrutinizing opportunities offered by blockchain technology and possible regulatory frameworks;
• discussing the legal implications of blockchain technologies;
• presenting real-world blockchain projects applied to society;
• bringing together different stakeholders to discuss the future role of governments and the contemporary challenges to public trust.

Conference programme:

DAY 1 – October 25th

9:00 – 9:30: Registration

9:30 – 10:15: Welcome from: E. Franzini, University Chancellor; V. Nardo, Presidente Ordine Avvocati; L. Violini, Head of Department Diritto pubblico italiano e sovranazionale

10:30 –11:00: The Italian perspective: “An Introduction”

• P. Ciocca, Commissario Consob

11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break

11:30 –12:15: Plenary Session: Understanding Blockchain: “An introduction”

• C. Malcolm, Head, Blockchain Policy Center, OECD-OCDE, tbc

12:30 – 13:45: Lunch

13:45 –14:15: Workshop:“How to ‘mine’?”

• C. Biondi Santi, BitMiner Factory, Firenze

14:30 –16:15: PlenarySession:“Blockchain in law”

Chair: NerinaBoschiero,FacultyDean

• P. de Filippi, Permanent Researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
• O. Goodenough, Director of the Center for Legal Innovation, Vermont Law School – CodeX Affiliated
• T. Schrepel, Utrecht University School of Law

16:15 – 16:45: Coffee Break

16:45 –18:00: “Blockchain in action: Crypto currencies”

Chair: Gabriele Sabbatini

• G. Zucco, BlockchainLabit, founder
• P. Dal Checco, Turin University
• R. Ghio, WizKey

16:45 –18:15: “Smart legal contract: forum and applicable law issue”

Chair:Benedetta Cappiello, University of Milan

• G. Rühl, Professor Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
• P. Bertoli, Professor Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
• M. T. Giordano, LT42

DAY 2 – October 26th

9:30 –10:30: Plenary session:“Blockchain as a tool to achieve the SDGs”

Chair: Cesare Pitea, University of Milan

• R. della Croce, OCSE, Senior Economist, Blockchain and green finance
• G. Baroncini Turrichia, HELPERBIT founder, Blockchain Project applied
• G. Coppi, Fordham University, International Humanitarian Affairs

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 –12:30: “Who and how to decide?”

Chair: Alessandro Palumbo, Ph.D., CEOJUR

• P. Ortoloni, Radboud University, Nijmegen
• A. Santosuosso, Professor Università degli Studi di Pavia
• J. Lassègue, Professor and Chargé de recherche CNRS

11:00 – 12:30: “Transparency Issue”

Chair: Gherardo Carullo

• M. Nastri, Notaio
• M. Finck, Max Planck Institute for innovation and competition
• A. Zwitter, Dean, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

 

For further information contact Benedetta Cappiello (benedetta.cappiello@unimi.it)

QPC

QPC

Tribunal de police d'Angers, 13 septembre 2019

Pourvoi c/ Cour d'assises de la Seine-et-Marne, 5 juin 2018

Salzburg-based Alpine Bau had been carrying out a considerable amount of roadwork engineering for the Polish State. The courts at Vienna started insolvency proceedings in 2013, appointing Mr Riel as what is now called the ‘insolvency practitioner’. Austria is the centre of main interests, the Austrian procedure the main proceedings. A little later a secondary proceeding is opened in Poland. Skarb Państwa, the Polish finance ministry or treasury, seeks in those proceedings the payment of debt it claims is outstanding vis-a-vis the Polish State. It also seizes the Austrian courts in a separate proceeding, asking it to confirm the existence of debt owed to it (the amount almost exactly the amount it specified in the Polish secondary proceedings) and at the same time a stay in its pronouncement until the Polish courts have ruled on the fate of the claim in Poland. Essentially therefore the Austrian action is a conservatory action, a hedging of the treasury’s bets.

An interesting angle is that in the Austrian proceedings the Treasury claims application of the Brussels Ia Regulation, particularly its Article 29 lis alibi pendens rule. The Austrian courts reject the existence of the debt and they do not entertain the lis alibi pendens request (the request for a stay).

The first question in C-47/18 (judgment 18 September) was whether Brussels Ia or the Insolvency Regulation are engaged. The CJEU (at 33) emphasises the need for both avoidance of overlap and of non-cover by either (‘doivent être interprétés de façon à éviter tout chevauchement entre les règles de droit que ces textes énoncent et tout vide juridique’), in the relation between the two Regulations: the infamous dovetail which as I have flagged in earlier posts, the Court in my view does not get entirely right. References are to Valach, Wiemer & Trachte, Feniks, Nickel & Goeldner). Here, the Treasury bases its action on Article 110 of the Austrian insolvency act (allowing, and urging first-tier creditors (such as, inevitably, Inland Revenue) to have their claims properly registered so as to ensure the priority in the picking order against the other creditors). The claim therefore is subject to the Insolvency Regulation 1346/2000.

The Court subsequently and unsurprisingly holds that Brussels Ia’s lis alibi pendens rule cannot somehow apply deus ex machina. At 43: insolvency is excluded from the Regulation; this exclusion is all or nothing: if the Regulation does not apply, none of it applies, including its procedural rules. These have, in BIa context, the clear purpose of ruling out as much as possible procedures pending in more than one Member State on the same issue. The Insolvency Regulation, by contrast, allows for concurrent proceedings, albeit primary and secondary ones, and (in Article 31 of the old Regulation; tightened in the current version 2015/848) encourages co-operation and exchange of information to avoid irreconcilable judgments.

(The further question asked refers to debt documentation requirements).

Geert.

Handbook of) EU private international law, 2nd ed. 2016, Chapter 5 Heading 5.4.1. Chapter 2 Heading 2.2.2.10.1

 

 

L’intérêt de cet arrêt est de rappeler qu’en cas de réclamation contre une amende forfaitaire majorée, la réclamation est irrecevable si elle n’est pas accompagnée de l’avis de contravention correspondant à l’amende concernée. 

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