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Sécurité sociale, accident du travail

La Mafia Franchises / EUIPO - Italie (La Mafia SE SIENTA A LA MESA)
Propriété intellectuelle et industrielle
La marque « La Mafia se sienta a la mesa » est contraire à l’ordre public

Blanco Marqués
Sécurité sociale des travailleurs migrants
Le complément de pension accordé en Espagne aux travailleurs en incapacité permanente totale est compatible avec la perception d’une pension de retraite d’un autre État membre ou de la Suisse

On 11 May 2018 the Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law of the University of Milan will host a conference  on Punitive Damages and European Private International Law: State of the Art and Future Developments, in cooperation with the Interest Group on Private International law of the Italian Society of International Law and with the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale.

The conference takes inspiration from a recent revirement of the Italian Corte di Cassazione (Cass., S.U., 5 July 2017, No 16601) and aims at analysing the private international issues involved by the recognition of  punitive damages within European legal orders.

Speakers and discussants include:

• Giulio Ponzanelli (Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
• Lotte Meurkens (Maastricht University)
• Pietro Franzina (University of Ferrara)
• Chiara Tuo (University of Genova)
• Amélie Skierka (Wilmer Hale LLP)
• Antonio Leandro (University of Bari)
• Astrid Stadler (Universität Konstanz)
• Olivera Boskovic (Université Paris Descartes)
• Alex Mills (University College London)
• Giacomo Biagioni (University of Cagliari)
• Cedric Vanleenhove (Ghent University)
• Wolfgang Wurmnest (Universität Augsburg)
• Ornella Feraci (University of Siena)

The complete programme is available here.

Admission is free. Participants are kindly asked to register by 4 May 2018 here.

For information please contact conference.pil.milan@gmail.com.

 

 

A brief update on our previous post regarding the approval of the establishment of the Netherlands Commercial Court by the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer). The bill is now scheduled for rubber-stamping by the Senate (Eerste Kamer) on 27 March 2018. This makes the kick-off date of 1 July 2018 realistic.

We believe that this court will strengthen international commercial complex litigation in the Netherlands, and it offers business litigants an alternative to arbitration and high quality commercial courts in other countries. See also (for Dutch readers) Eddy Bauw and Xandra Kramer, ‘Commercial Court’ is uitkomst voor complexe internationale handelszaken, Het Financieele Dagblad, 11 October 2017.

More news will follow soon.

 

 

Our previous post:

This one is next: the Netherlands Commercial Court! By Georgia Antonopoulou, Erlis Themeli, and Xandra Kramer, Erasmus University Rotterdam

(PhD candidate, postdoc researcher and PI ERC project Building EU Civil Justice)

Following up on our previous post, asking which international commercial court would be established next, the adoption of the proposal for the Netherlands Commercial Court by the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) today answers the question. It will still have to pass the Senate (Eerste Kamer), but this should only be a matter of time. The Netherlands Commercial Court (NCC) is expected to open its doors on 1 July 2018 or shortly after.

The NCC is a specialized court established to meet the growing need for efficient dispute resolution in cross-border civil and commercial cases. This court is established as a special chamber of the Amsterdam District Court and of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. Key features are that proceedings will take place in the English language, and before a panel of judges selected for their wide expertise in international commercial litigation and their English language skills.

To accommodate the demand for efficient court proceedings in these cases a special set of rules of procedure has been developed. The draft Rules of Procedure NCC can be consulted here in English and in Dutch. It goes without saying that the court is equipped with the necessary court technology.

The Netherlands prides itself on having one of the most efficient court systems in the world, as is also indicated in the Rule of Law Index – in the 2017-2018 Report it was ranked first in Civil Justice, and 5th in overall performance. The establishment of the NCC should also be understood from this perspective. According to the website of the Dutch judiciary, the NCC distinguishes itself by its pragmatic approach and active case management, allowing it to handle complex cases within short timeframes, and on the basis of fixed fees.

Entreprise en difficulté (loi du 26 juillet 2005)

Pourvoi c/ Cour d'appel de Paris, Chambre 5-12, 05 décembre 2017

Crocs / EUIPO - Gifi Diffusion (Chaussures)
Propriété intellectuelle et industrielle
Le Tribunal confirme l’annulation de l’enregistrement du dessin de Crocs du fait que celui-ci a été divulgué au public avant son enregistrement

Crocs / EUIPO - Gifi Diffusion (Chaussures)
Propriété intellectuelle et industrielle
Le Tribunal confirme l’annulation de l’enregistrement du dessin de Crocs du fait que celui-ci a été divulgué au public avant son enregistrement

TestBioTech / Commission
Environnement et consommateurs
Le Tribunal de l’UE annule la décision par laquelle la Commission a rejeté une demande visant à obtenir le réexamen de l’autorisation de mise sur le marché de produits contenant du soja génétiquement modifié

As noted by Marta Requejo in an earlier post, the European Commission has published on 12 March 2018 a proposal for a regulation on the law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims.

On 4 April 2018, a seminar (in English) will take place at the Department of Law of the University of Ferrara under the title Voluntary Assignment and Contractual Subrogation under EU Private International Law. The Commission proposal will, of course, be one of the key topics of the seminar.

Speakers include Martin Gebauer (University of Tübingen), Antonio Leandro (University of Bari), Alina Ontanu (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Riccardo Manfrini (lawyer in Treviso).

Further information may be found here.

In one of my many ponderings on research I would like to do but might never get an opportunity do (hence my repeated sharing of potential PhD topics) I came across an excellent post by Daniel Jowell QC on the application of EU competition law in the UK courts post-Brexit.

The usual disclaimer of course applies (let’s wait and see what happens in the future Treaty between the UK and the EU) yet one important consideration has wider appeal: how does one apply the classic conflicts suggestion that courts do not apply foreign public law, or if they do, do so with great caution?: both out of comity with the foreign State; and to protect one’s own ordre public.

Competition law is often seen as being of quasi-public nature. Daniel justifiably suggests that post Rome II (in which competition law is assigned a specific (if complicated) lex causae), the UK will revert to its standard rules which increase the possibility that UK courts might refuse to apply foreign competition law, including the EU’s, on public policy grounds.

One to remember.

Geert.

(Handbook of) EU private international law, 2nd ed. 2016, Chapter 4, Heading 4.6.2.

Une décision judiciaire prononcée sans que le débiteur ait été informé de l’adresse de la juridiction à laquelle il convient d’adresser la réponse, devant laquelle comparaître ou, le cas échéant, auprès de laquelle un recours peut être formé contre cette décision, ne peut être certifiée, en tant que titre exécutoire européen, conformément aux dispositions du règlement (CE) n° 805/2004 du 21 avril 2004.

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Dans une décision communiquée le 1er mars 2018, la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme a estimé que le rejet par les juridictions françaises d’une demande de délégation d’autorité parentale croisée au sein d’un couple formé de deux femmes ne révélait aucune différence de traitement selon leur orientation sexuelle.

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On March 12, 2018, the Commission has proposed new rules to clarify according to which law such disputes are resolved: as a general rule, the law of the country where creditors have their habitual residence would apply, regardless of which Member State’s courts or authorities examine the case.

Click here to access the proposal, COM(2018) 96 final.