Agrégateur de flux

Prof. Albert Henke (scientific coordinator) has set up a new website on European Civil Procedure. Its goal is to keep academics, professionals, students and all those involved in cross-border litigation in Europe updated about current trends and recent developments in legislation, case law and literature in this area, as well as to create an open educational resource and possibly promote scientific partnerships among Universities, Centres of Research and Institutions active in the field.

The website has been set up within the Jean Monnet Module on European Civil Procedure in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective, a teaching and research project funded by the EU and hosted by Università degli Studi in Milan.

The website is still under construction.

France / Commission
Aide d'État
Le Tribunal confirme que l’apport en capital et les mesures de privatisation adoptés par la France en faveur de la SNCM sont des aides d’État illégales et incompatibles avec le marché intérieur

Air Berlin
Transport
Les frais d’annulation demandés par les compagnies aériennes peuvent être contrôlés au regard de leur caractère abusif

Toshiba / Commission
Concurrence
La Cour confirme l’amende de 61,44 millions d’euros infligée à Toshiba (dont 4,65 millions d’euros à titre solidaire avec Mitsubishi) pour sa participation à l’entente sur le marché des appareillages de commutation à isolation gazeuse

La Cour de cassation autorise l’adoption du conjoint du père biologique d’un enfant conçu par mère porteuse mais rejette la transcription à l’état civil français à l’égard de la mère d’intention.

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Trois ans d’emprisonnement, 30 millions d’euros d’amende et confiscation de tous les biens saisis en France. Telle est la peine requise mercredi matin à l’encontre de Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, vice-président de Guinée équatoriale jugé par le tribunal correctionnel de Paris dans l’affaire des « biens mal acquis ».

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Cassation - procédure de réexamen en matière civile - état des personnes

Gestation pour autrui - Filiation - Filiation adoptive

Union européenne - Règlement (CE) n° 44/2001 du conseil du 22
décembre 2000 - lieu où le fait dommageable s'est produit

Gestation pour autrui - Etat civil - Acte de naissance
Acte dressé à l'étranger

Gestation pour autrui - Etat civil - Acte de naissance
Acte dressé à l'étranger

Gestation pour autrui - Etat civil - Acte de naissance

Fries
Transport
La limite d’âge de 65 ans prévue par le droit de l’Union pour les pilotes dans le transport aérien commercial de passagers, de fret ou de courrier est valide

The ICSID award in case Eiser Infrastructure Limited and Energía Solar Luxembourg SARL v. Kingdom of Spain, case number ARB/13/36, concluding that Spain had violated the Energy Charter Treaty, has been recognized on an ex parte petition by a New York court on June 27. Further information can be found here, edited by K. Duncan.

The award was issued on May 4 by an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes tribunal after it unanimously determined that Spain had violated its international obligations to the companies by upending a series of subsidies aimed at encouraging investment in the renewable energy sector, several years after the companies sunk more than €126 million into three solar plants. The award also includes additional interest.

The case is EISER Infrastructure Limited et al v. Kingdom of Spain, case number 1:17-cv-03808, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Spain is seeking annulment of the decision for violation of the FSIA (1976).

The Belgian Council of State (the highest administrative court) has annulled the Flemish waste agency’s export permit in the so-called ‘Slufter’ case, involving large quantities of toxic dredging spoil (for the aficionados: classified as EURAL 17 05 05*; ia with heavy doses of tributyltin – TBT) dredged from the port of Antwerp. The case made by applicants was that the waste would be disposed of in the port of Rotterdam’s ‘slufter’ by way of mere dumping, as opposed to processing ‘at home’ in the Flemish region.

At issue was Article 11 of the Waste shipments Regulation 1013/2006, which allows Member States of export to object to planned shipments of waste destined for disposal. Applicants’ case was that the Flemish waste agency – OVAM should have disallowed the shipment on the basis of the proximity and the self-sufficiency principles. OVAM however pointed out that even if in optimal circumstances, processing in Flanders could lead to higher rates of recovery of the waste, much of it would still simply have to be landfilled. Importantly, it preferred disposal in the Slufter on the basis that the logistics chain was much shorter: load up, transport, dump. As opposed to load up, transport to processing facility for partial recovery (involving three separate processes); load-up of the solid waste left; transport and dump.

The Council of State ruled at the end of May that this decision by OVAM, in particular the reliance of the extent of the logistics chain, lacks proper assessment of the Best Available Technologies for dredging spoil, hence leading to insufficient assessment of the proximity and self-sufficiency principles. The ruling is relevant also with a view to the remainder of the spoil that will continue to be dredged.

For easy of reference (for those wishing to locate copy of the ruling): case numbers are 238220 -238224 included).

Geert.

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Uber France
Rapprochement des législations ETAB SERV MARI
Selon l’avocat général Szpunar, les États membres peuvent interdire et réprimer pénalement l’exercice illégal de l’activité de transport dans le cadre du service UberPop sans notifier au préalable le projet de loi à la Commission

Jean-Sylvestre Bergé, Genevieve Helleringer, Operating Law in a Global Context – Comparing, Combining and Prioritising, Edward Elgar, 2017, pp. 256, ISBN 9781785367328, GBP 80

Lawyers have to adapt their reasoning to the increasingly global nature of the situations they deal with. Often, rules formulated in a national, international or European environment must all be jointly applied to a given case. This book seeks to make explicit the analysis the lawyer engages in every time he or she is confronted by the operation of several laws in different contexts. This reasoning is organised according to a basic three-step approach, consisting of the comparison (Part 1), combination (Part 2) and, finally, ordering or ‘prioritization’ (Part 3) of the methods and solutions of national, international and European law to be used to solve the case. The book conveys in detail how the law is operated through a wide range of concrete examples cutting across domains including criminal law, contract law, fundamental rights, internal market, international trade and procedure. This book focuses on the needs of a global lawyer who must reach conclusions in a pluralistic context. Illustrations from the domestic case law of the UK, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, France and the US are used to demonstrate how lawyers can combine different contexts to improve their legal reasoning. Operating Law in a Global Context will appeal to lawyers in these jurisdictions and beyond, as well as to students training to practice in a global environment.