In 25.11.2009, Excelenţa Sa, dl. Judecător Vassilios Skouris, Preşedinte al Curţii de Justiţie a Comunităţilor Europene, va fi prezent in Romania:
Universitatea din Bucuresti – Ceremonie de acordare a titlului Doctor Honoris Causa Domnului Vassilios SKOURIS, Preşedintele Curţii de Justiţie a Comunităţilor Europene de la Luxembourg [*]
Institutul National al Magistraturii – Conferinta [*]
Jesper Lau Hansen, What Constitutes Insider Dealing? – The Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-45/08, Spector Photo Group, International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, Forthcoming
There is considerable interest in the Spector Photo Group case, as it will allow the EC Court of Justice to establish what constitutes insider dealing. The Advocate General’s opinion is helpful as it correctly points out that use of the inside information is a necessary condition for infringing the prohibition on insider dealing and that a transaction carried out while in possession of inside information would generally constitute insider dealing, but it does not fully analyse what constitutes ‘use’ and thus leaves a few important questions unexplored. This paper provides an answer on the basis of a definition of inside information as ‘an informational advantage vis-à-vis other possible trading partners’. It is argued that the requirement of use of inside information involves a person actively trying to obtain the advantage that the inside information represents, irrespective of whether any gain is actually achieved. Consequently, when no such advantage is sought, for example because there is parity of information between the parties, or the informed party reflects the inside information in the conditions of the transaction, or the transaction is based on conditions agreed before the inside information arises, the prohibition of insider dealing is not infringed.
Jesper Lau Hansen, What Constitutes Insider Dealing? – The Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-45/08, Spector Photo Group (November 3, 2009). International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1499093
Pascal MBONGO, Antoine VAUCHEZ, Dans la fabrique du droit européen. Scènes, acteurs et publics de la Cour de justice des Communautés européennes, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2009.
Et si la Cour de justice des Communautés européennes était en fait la grande inconnue de l’Union ? Les juristes ont largement souligné sa contribution à l’édification d’un droit communautaire. Les politistes quant à eux n’ont cessé de pointer la centralité de son rôle dans les dynamiques d’européanisation. Mais, toujours interrogée du point de vue de ses « outputs » (sa jurisprudence), la Cour a très rarement intéressé pour elle-même. De fait, alors même que les études européennes portant sur la Commission ou les États membres soulignent la multiplicité et la pluralité des « cultures » qui trouvent à s’y exprimer et des conflits qui les travaillent, elles prêtent le plus souvent à « la Cour » unité, cohérence et constance dans le temps. Le présent ouvrage fait le pari inverse. Réunissant juristes, politistes, et sociologues, mobilisant divers angles et registres d’analyse, il entre de plain-pied dans l’arène judiciaire communautaire, scrutant ses professionnels, expliquant ses filières de recrutement, dessinant ses réseaux de sociabilité, mais aussi disséquant ses modes de raisonnement et ses registres argumentatifs. Ce détour par le plateau de Kirchberg nous plonge dans la Cour ainsi revisitée comme « fabrique du droit européen » où se confrontent et s’hybrident cultures et professionnels du droit de l’Europe. Ce regard renouvelé sur les acteurs de la Cour et les instruments cognitifs qu’ils mobilisent dessine une cartographie nouvelle des liens (professionnels, sociaux, intellectuels, etc.) qui maintiennent la Cour à cheval entre espace communautaire et espace judiciaire, champ juridique et politique européenne.
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Roland Vaubel, Constitutional courts as promoters of political centralization: lessons for the European Court of Justice, European Journal of Law and Economics, Dec 2009, Vol. 28, Iss. 3; pg. 203 [*]
Abstract (Summary)
A cross-section analysis covering up to 42 countries and including the usual control variables shows that central government outlays as a share of general government outlays are significantly larger if the judges of the constitutional or supreme court are independent of the federal government and parliament and if the barriers to constitutional amendment are high. This evidence is consistent with the view that constitutional judges have a vested interest in centralization or that there is self-selection or both. These insights are used to draw lessons for the reform of the European Court of Justice. Self-selection should be reduced by requiring judicial experience–ideally with the highest national courts. The vested interest in centralization could be overcome by adding a subsidiarity court.
Yasuhiro Shigeta, The ECJ’s ‘Hard’ Control over Compliance with International Environmental Law: Its Procedural and Substantive Aspects, International Community Law Review, Volume 11, Number 3, September 2009, pp. 251-305.
This study shows that the ECJ, while not directly applying and interpreting environmental treaties, exercises procedurally and substantively ‘hard’ control over compliance with EC legislation implementing those treaties, in the fields of nature conservation and hazardous waste management, on certain conditions and within certain limits. This study also shows that the ECJ’s acknowledgment of its exclusive jurisdiction on the marine environment as seen in the 2006 MOX Plant case has contradictory effect on its substantively ‘hard’ control: such acknowledgment, although being a plus factor where there is no Community measure, becomes a minus factor since it in practice means that there already exist Community measures. Although the above observations are also instructive to other international judiciaries’ study, structural and situational differences should be considered.
Chris Koedooder, Niki de Lang, Anti-terrorist Blacklisting in the European Union: The Influence of National Procedures on the Judgments of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities, Legal Issues of Economic Integration, vol. 36, 4/2009, pp. 313–337
Summary:
The most prominent example of anti-terrorism measures is undoubtedly the freezing of funds of individuals or entities suspected of committing or supporting terrorist acts. The European Union (EU) implements United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolutions and maintains its own anti-terrorist blacklist. This article looks at fund-freezing decisions taken on the basis of both the UN sanctions regime and the autonomous EU sanctions regime and the resulting jurisprudence of the Community courts. Discussion of recent judgments of the Court of First Instance (CFI) in the Sison and OMPI cases, both concerning EU level sanctions, will illustrate that the underlying national procedures can have considerable influence on the Court’s judgments in this field. Central to the discussion will be the relevance of national procedures and judgments on the validity of blacklisting decisions and their review.
Centrul de Studii de Drept European (CSDE) al Institutului de Cercetări Juridice din cadrul Academiei Române organizează la data de la data de 30 octombrie 2009, ora 12,30
la Universitatea Romano-Americana, Bld. Expozitiei, nr. 1B, Amfiteatrul Jean Monnet
Conferinţa
«Legea aplicabilă obligaţiilor contractuale conform Regulamentului (CE) nr. 593/2008 al Parlamentului European şi al Consiliului din 17 iunie 2008 (Regulamentul ROMA I)»
Program. UPDATING…
Moderator: Nicolae Turcu, Preşedintele Secţiei de Drept Privat, Consiliul Legislativ din România
Alina Oprea, Regulamentul Roma I şi regimul juridic al normelor imperative
Viviana Onaca, Ioana Burduf, Cauza C-133/08, hotărâre din 6 octombrie 2009 (ICF): prima aplicare a Conventiei de la Roma privind legea aplicabila obligatiilor contractuale
Angela Mîţă-Baciu, Noua reglementare în domeniul legii aplicabile contractelor în Europa şi în statele membre ale UE [New regulation on the applicable law for contracts in Europe and EU Member States]
Bogdan Trandafirescu, Libertatea părţilor în determinarea legii aplicabile contractului de comerţ internaţional din perspectiva Regulamentului Roma I
Anca Melinte, Silvia Axinescu, Legislatia aplicabilă în cadrul contractelor electronice
Anca Ileana Duşcă, Robert Bischin, Unificarea dreptului contractelor – şi rolul ei – în dezvoltarea economiei europene
Dezbaterea îşi propune realizarea unui schimb de puncte de vedere atât din perspectiva teoreticienilor, cât şi practicienilor (judecători şi avocaţi), pornind de la aspecte cheie evidenţiate în jurisprudenţa Curţii de Justiţie a Comunităţilor Europene şi în dreptul derivat comunitar.
Lucrările şi prezentările susţinute cu ocazia colocviului urmează a fi publicate într-un volum, care va apărea la o editură recunoscută de CNCSIS.
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Friedrich Wenzel Bulst, The Application of Art. 82 EC to Abusive Exclusionary Conduct, Rabels Zeitschrift, Vol. 73, No. 4, October 2009 [*]
The article addresses recent developments in the application of the prohibition of abuse of dominance in EC competition law. The European Commission has published a communication providing guidance on its enforcement priorities in applying Art. 82 EC to abusive exclusionary conduct of dominant undertakings. Under this more effects-based approach which focuses on ensuring consistency in the application of Arts. 81 and 82 EC as well as the Merger Regulation, priority will be given to cases where the conduct in question is liable to have harmful effects on consumers. After a brief introduction (section I), the author outlines the main elements of the communication and illustrates how the Commission’s approach to providing guidance in this area has evolved since the publication of its 2005 discussion paper on exclusionary abuses (section II). The author then addresses the scope of the communication against the background of the case law on the Commission’s discretion (not) to pursue cases (section III). The central concept of the communication is that of »foreclosure leading to consumer harm«. Against this background the author discusses, in the context of refusal to supply abuses both in and outside an IP context, the operationalisation of the criterion of harm to consumers (section IV) before concluding (section V).
Anatol Dutta, The Death of the Shareholder in the Conflict of Laws, Rabels Zeitschrift, Vol. 73, No. 4, October 2009
Abstract:
The death of the shareholder raises the question how the law applicable to the company and the law governing the succession in the deceased shareholder’s estate have to be delimitated. This borderline becomes more and more relevant against the background of recent jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Centros, Überseering and Inspire Art concerning the freedom of movement of companies in the Community. On the one hand, as a consequence of this jurisprudence the laws governing the company and the succession often differ. On the other hand, the ECJ’s jurisprudence might further blur the boundaries between the laws governing companies and successions. The article tries to draw the border between the relevant choice-of-law rules. It comes to the conclusion that the consequences of the shareholder’s death for the company and his share are subject to the conflict rules for companies (supra III.). More problematic, though, is the characterisation of the succession in the share of the deceased shareholder. Some legal systems contain special succession regimes for shares in certain private companies and partnerships. The article argues (supra IV.) that the succession in shares has to be dually-characterised and subjected to both, the law governing the company and the succession. Yet clashes between the applicable company and succession laws are to be solved by giving precedence to the applicable company law. The precedence of company law should be clarified by the legislator – by the German legislator when codifying the conflict rules for companies and by the European legislator when codifying the conflict rules for successions upon death (supra V.).
preluat de pe CONFLICTOFLAWS.NET
Rabels Zeitschrift fuer auslaendisches und internationales Privatrecht [4/2009]
Sau cum ar veni “the use of foreign law & doctrine in American courts”…Ori despre modele de “fédéralisme d’exécution“.
“The federal systems of Switzerland, Germany, and the European Union, for example, all provide that constituent states, not federal bureaucracies, will themselves implement many of the laws, rules, regulations, or decrees enacted by the central “federal” body.”
Supreme Court of United States, 521 U.S. 898, Printz v. United States, 95-1478 Argued: December 3, 1996 — Decided: June 27, 1997. Justice Breyer, with whom Justice Stevens joins, dissenting.
Steven Greer, Andrew Williams, Human Rights in the Council of Europe and the EU: Towards ‘Individual’, ‘Constitutional’ or ‘Institutional’ Justice?, European Law Journal, Oxford: Jul 2009. Vol. 15, Iss. 4;
The European Convention on Human Rights, promulgated by the Council of Europe in 1950, is widely regarded as the world’s most successful experiment in the trans-national judicial protection of human rights. The EU’s much more recent judicial and political interest in human rights has also been widely welcomed. Yet, while the crisis currently afflicting the Convention system has not gone unnoticed, the same cannot equally be said of the difficulties presented by the increasing interpenetration of the two systems. Amongst the few who have shown some interest in these problems, the dominant view is that good will and common sense will provide adequate solutions. We disagree. Instead, we detect a gathering crisis which, unless properly analysed and effectively tackled, will only deepen as the EU’s interest in human rights develops further. In our view, the problem is essentially conceptual and that, ultimately, it boils down to a much-neglected question, simple to state but not so easy to answer: is the trans-national protection of human rights in Europe a matter of ‘individual’, ‘constitutional’ or ‘institutional’ justice?
Paolo Mengozzi este noul prim avocat general (2009-2010)
Paolo Mengozzi
născut în anul 1938; profesor de drept internaţional şi titular al Catedrei Jean Monnet de dreptul Comunităţilor Europene a Universităţii din Bologna; doctor honoris causa al Universităţii Carlos III din Madrid; profesor invitat la Universităţile Johns Hopkins (Bologna Center), St. Johns (New York), Georgetown, Paris II, Georgia (Atena) şi la Institutul Universitar Internaţional (Luxemburg); coordonator al European Business Law Pallas Program, organizat în cadrul Universităţii din Nimègue; membru al Comitetului consultativ al Comisiei Comunităţilor Europene pentru achiziţii publice; subsecretar de stat pentru industrie şi comerţ cu ocazia semestrului preşedinţiei italiene a Consiliului; membru al grupului de reflecţie al Comunităţii Europene asupra Organizaţiei Mondiale a Comerţului (OMC) şi director al sesiunii 1997 a Centrului de Cercetări din cadrul Academiei de Drept Internaţional de la Haga consacrată OMC; judecător la Tribunalul de Primă Instanţă în perioada 4 martie 1998–3 mai 2006; avocat general la Curtea de Justiţie începând cu data de 4 mai 2006.
D-na judecator Camelia Toader a fost aleasa Presedintele Camerei a opta a CJCE pentru o perioada de un an.
Cyrille Louis, Le Conseil d’État annule un décret sur les OGM, Le Figaro, 19.08.2009 [*]
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«Des motifs purement juridiques»
Contraint de transposer une directive européenne de 2001 sous peine de forte amende, mais ne souhaitant manifestement pas engager un débat parlementaire sur le sujet, le gouvernement Villepin a choisi en mars 2007 de réglementer par décret l’information du public sur la culture d’OGM en France. Or, le Conseil d’État vient de juger ce cadre juridique inadéqu at, rappelant que la charte de l’environnement impose le recours à la loi pour encadrer l’accès public à ce type de données.
«Concrètement, cette annulation décidée pour des motifs purement juridiques ne change toutefois pas grand-chose», relativise-t-on dans l’entourage de Jean-Louis Borloo. Visiblement désireux de dédramatiser cette annulation, les collaborateurs du ministre de l’Environnement, de l’Écologie et du Développement durable rappellent que «depuis 2007, il y a eu le Grenelle de l’Environnement, la loi sur les OGM et l’adoption d’une clause de sauvegarde proscrivant la culture d’OGM en France».
Pour autant, l’arrêt du Conseil d’État impose au gouvernement d’aller vite sous peine de se trouver en contravention avec la réglementation communautaire. En 2006, déjà, la Cour européenne de justice avait enjoint Paris de transposer au plus vite la directive OGM sous peine de se voir infliger une amende de 38 millions d’euros. Dans les prochains mois, la France risque donc bien de voir la guerre entre pro et anti-OGM se rallumer au Parlement.
Cineva cauta de cateva zile, pe blog, “jurisprudenta insolventa regulament 1346″.
Este simplu: o gasiti aici (la “Avut in vedere in cauza“).
Regulamentul 1346/2000 privind procedurile de insolvență
European Company Law
Volume 6, 2009, Issue 4 [*]
Hanneke Wegman, EU Alternative Fund Regulation Proposal: Pros and Cons
Adriaan F.M. Dorresteijn, Odeaya Uziahu-Santcroos, The Societas Privata Europaea under the Magnifying Glass (Part 2)
Summary:
This is the second part of a two-part series on the Societas Privata Europaea (SPE). Whereas the first part concentrated on the proposal by the European Commission, this part deals with the proposals for amendments that have been made by the European Parliament in the last months of 2008 and in March 2009.
Erik Werlauff, A ‘Copenhagen Effect’? Denmark’s Answer to Centros: A Far-Reaching Company Law Reform Aimed at Strengthening the ‘Free Movement of Companies’
Summary:
In 2009, the Danish legislature introduced significant changes to Danish company law with the aim of making the rules on both public and private companies more flexible and thereby Denmark a competitive country for the establishment of companies. This could be called the Copenhagen effect. However, this effect could be increased by even further liberalization of Danish company law.
Bob Wessels, The Ongoing Struggle of Multinational Groups of Companies under the EC Insolvency Regulation
Summary:
In the application of the Insolvency Regulation, the centre of main interests (COMI) of a debtor determines which national court is competent in insolvency proceedings. The Regulation presumes that the COMI of a company is the place of its registered office. Such a presumption, however, could well be at odds in cases where a company is part of a multinational corporate group.
Rolf Dotevall J.S.D, Report from Sweden
Gert-Jan Vossestein, Hanneke Wegman, Survey of Legislation and Case Law, March and April 2009
Gudrun M. Grabher, Anna Gamper (Eds.), Legal Narratives. European Perspectives on U.S. Law in Cultural Context, Springer, 2009 [*]
Capitol in carte:
Gunter H Roth, Simone Wasserer, Increased Competences through Development of the Law: The European Court of Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court, p. 195-213.
Judicial Review of UN Sanctions by the European Court of Justice
Abstract:
European University Institute (EUI)/Working Paper Series
The Legal Effect of Directives: Policy, Rules and Exceptions
European Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 3, p. 349, 2009
Abstract:
This article reconsiders the legal effect of Directives for private parties within Community law. This is a vexed issue that has generated significant academic commentary and much case law. The qualifications and exceptions to the basic proposition that Directives do not have horizontal direct effect continue to grow, thereby rendering this overall area even more complex than it was hitherto. The article seeks to shed light on this topic by subjecting to critical scrutiny the policy underlying the ‘core rule’ that denies horizontal direct effect to Directives, and considering whether the judicially created exceptions or qualifications to that policy are consistent with it.Keywords: Directives, direct effect, indirect effect, incidental effect, principle of interpretation, legal reasoning
Aici.
Karen J.Alter, Laurence R. Helfer, Nature or Nurture? Judicial Law Making in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Tribunal of Justice(June 23, 2009). Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 258; Northwestern Public Law Research Paper Series No. 09-16; Vanderbilt Public Law Research. Available at SSRN.
Are international courts (ICs) by nature expansionist lawmakers, expanding the reach and scope of their authority at the expense of state sovereignty when permissive conditions allow? Or are they naturally conservative, applying international law in straightforward and circumscribed ways unless environmental factors encourage them to be more expansive? We investigate expansionist lawmaking patterns in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the Andean Tribunal of Justice (ATJ), the ECJ’s jurisdictional twin and the third most active IC. We argue that international judges are more likely to become expansive lawmakers when they are supported by influential sub-state interlocutors and compliance constituencies. These intermediaries include national judges, administrative agency officials, and private actors who have a personal, professional or ideological stake in promoting respect for international rules. Our study investigates lawmaking across all ATJ preliminary rulings through 2007 and analyzes the political effects of cloning the ECJ in region outside of Europe.
Gabriele Porretto, The European Union: Counter-Terrorism Sanctions Against Individuals and Human Rights Protection, (June 25, 2009). Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper No. 09-08. Available at SSRN.
Abstract:
This paper reviews some of the cases brought, until 2006, to the Court of First Instance (CFI) of the European Court of Justice by individuals and entities seeking judicial review of EU counter-terrorism sanctions implementing, respectively, UN Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999) and Resolution 1373 (2001).
While the CFI has declined to review EU acts implementing the 1267 sanctions regime, it has recently fully scrutinised and declared invalid an EC regulation implementing Resolution 1373, insofar as it freezes the plaintiff’s assets. The different outcome in the latter case is due to the different features of the 1373 sanctions regime.
The CFI position on the cases originating from the 1267 sanctions regime does not seem to be in line with the current picture of the EU system, where as a result of a long work of judicial construction, the protection of fundamental human rights is well entrenched in the EU Treaty. The Court’s acceptance of a lacuna in the EU human rights framework is all the more worrying if one considers the lack of alternative avenues of redress open to individuals targeted by counter-terrorism sanctions.
Riccardo Croce, Nikos Dimopoulos, Philippe Billiet, Arbitration Commitments under EC Merger Procedures: a hybrid and successful form of Arbitration, AIA, July, 2009, p. 4-8. [*]
