Cross-border enforcement of claims in the EU

history, present time and future

In the legal areas of contractual claims and tax claims, various requirements exist in European Community law and in applicable conventions for the recognition and enforceability of foreign titles of execution, judgements and decisions. Besides the requirement that a foreign title of execution should fall ...

Division of powers in European Union Law

the delimitation of internal competence between the EU and the Member States

The European Union has flourished and expanded over the last fifty years as a unique system that lies midway between a federal state and an anarchical international system. Different actors coexist within a cooperative hegemony of Member States, and the allocation of competences and decision-making ...

Multilingual interpretation of European Union Law

According to many scholars, Community law simply cannot be understood without taking its multilingual character into account. The equal authenticity of all language versions of a Community provision, and the danger of diverging meanings between versions, imply a duty to consider the various versions when ...

Impact assessment in EU lawmaking

Recent constitutional thinking has directed its attention to the profound impact of soft norms on the way legislation is made. This book identifies the European Union's impact assessment regime as a source of these norms. In 2002, the European Commission, later followed by the ...

The Law of payment services in the EU

the EC Directive on payment services in the internal market

The role that payments play within the general framework of financial services in the EC is indispensable for the realization of a true single European market including, inter alia, the conditions of cross-border purchasing, the legal framework of consumer protection, and the technical standards against ...

Regulation of subsidies and state aids in WTO and EC Law

Conflicts in international trade Law

Regulating subsidies in international trade is crucial to the efficient and equitable allocation of resources and ultimately to global welfare. Much of the serious instability that persists in today's interdependent world may be traced to government interventions that dilute or defy such regulation. In ...

Free movement of persons within the European Community

This book explores the extent to which EC law confers upon individuals the right to gain access to public services in other Member States. For example, are European citizens and third country nationals who have moved to other Member States entitled to claim minimum subsistence ...

The National Parliaments in the European Union

a critical view on EU constitution-building

The resounding popular rejection in France and the Netherlands of the proposed EU Constitutional Treaty has focused attention on the role played by national parliaments in the process of European integration. Recognizing the need for an in-depth critical analysis of the complex interrelations between national ...

The European Commission´s jurisdiction to scrutinise mergers

On the Merger Regulation s all-important element focusing on the Community dimension i.e., the test whether a merger is to be examined by the European Commission or by the Member States this classic has held the field since 1998. Now with this new Third ...

The concept of legislation in European Community Law

a comparative perspective

A notable trend in recent scholarship on the nature of the European Union and its democratic legitimacy focuses on the concept of `legislation and its employment within the European Community s legal system. In this remarkable work of synthesis, Alexander T rk exposes and elucidates ...

Regulating content-European regulatory framework for the media and related creative sectors

A complex network of regulatory systems has arisen around the provision of media in Europe. In this connection, regulating content is a focal point, as content is not only of economic but of vital cultural importance. At community level, a wide variety of measures have ...

The autonomy of community Law

Competition Law sanctioning in the European Union

the EU-Law influence on the national Law system of sanctions in the European area

As of May 2004, national competition authorities in EU Members States are empowered to enforce sanctions on infringement of the competition rules laid down in Articles 81 and 82 EC Treaty. As a result, it is crucially important for practitioners to be conversant with the ...

Communications in EU antitrust law

market power and public interest

Approaching the theme from an antitrust perspective and focusing on telecommunications and television broadcasting, this volume examines how traditional European competition law doctrines and principles can be applied to this converging sector. The application of antitrust rules to the communications sector is often one of ...

The european commsission's jurisdiction to scrutinise mergers

Jurisdiction to scrutinise mergers. Second edition

Since the EC Merger Regulation was adopted in 1989, merger control has become established as an important part of EC competition law so that today all major businesses and law firms are aware of the Commission s extensive powers in this field. Right from the ...

Police and justice co-operation and the new European borders

Takeover Law in the EU and the USA

a comparative analysis