On 24 and 25 July the Justice and Home Affairs Council held its 2887th session in Brussels, the first under the French Presidency. The official press release is currently available only in French (UPDATE: English version). Among the “Justice” issues, discussed on Friday 25th, two main points are of particular importance as regards the development [...]
Following our post on the agenda of the JHA session held in Luxembourg on 5-6 June 2008, a factsheet has been released by the Slovenian Presidency with the main results of the Council in the field of judicial cooperation in civil matters.
The first and most important achievement is the adoption of the Rome I Regulation [...]
On 5 and 6 June the Justice and Home Affairs Council will hold its 2873rd session in Luxembourg, the last under the Slovenian Presidency. Among the “Justice” issues, scheduled for Friday 6th, the Council is expected to adopt the Rome I Regulation on the law applicable to contractual obligations (see the list of public deliberations; [...]
An interesting volume, collecting the contributions presented at the Seminario de Otoño de Derecho Internacional Privado (Fall Seminar on Private International Law), hosted in October 2007 by the University Carlos III of Madrid, has been recently published by Editorial Colex, under the editorship of Prof. Alfonso Luis Calvo-Caravaca and Prof. Esperanza Castellanos Ruiz: La Unión [...]
The papers presented at the international conference held in March 2007 at the University Carlo Cattaneo of Castellanza (see our previous post), and a final report drafted on the basis of the discussion that arose in the colloquium, have been published by CEDAM, under the editorship of Alberto Malatesta, Stefania Bariatti and Fausto Pocar: “The [...]
On 9 January 2008 Evelyne Gebhardt, Rapporteur in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), has released her Draft report on the Commission’s Proposal for a Council regulation amending regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 as regards jurisdiction and introducing rules concerning applicable law in matrimonial matters (COM(2006)399 of 17 July 2006).
Pursuant [...]
A very interesting compilation of contributions resulting from a research project on the elaboration of international family law rules within the European Union, funded by the European Commission and conducted by the universities of Antwerp, Barcelona, Louvain-la-Neuve, Lund, Milan, Toulouse and Utrecht has been published by Johan Meeusen, Marta Pertegás, Gert Straetmans and Frederik Swennen:
International [...]
Following swiftly on from our post on the JHA Council Session taking place today and tomorrow (19 - 20 April 2007), the Council have issued a Press Release with the main results of the council after today’s deliberations. Here are their conclusions:
On Rome III (Jurisdiction and applicable law in matrimonial matters: see the related [...]
On 19 and 20 April the JHA Council will hold its 2794th session in Luxembourg, under the German Presidency. On the agenda for the “Justice” issues, scheduled for Thursday 19th, there are a number of points dealing with cooperation in civil law matters, both under the “A” items (on which the Council decides without discussion, [...]
A very interesting report of the working sessions of the 16th Annual meeting of the European Group for Private International Law (GEDIP-EGPIL), held in Coimbra on 22-24 September 2006, has been recently published on the new site of the Group. The summary (in French) has been compiled by N. Ascensão Silva, R. Pereira Dias and [...]
Thursday, February 22, 2007
An international conference (held in English) is organised by University Carlo Cattaneo (LIUC) on 9-10 March 2007. It will present the results of the Research Project "EU Harmonisation of Private International Law and External Relations in Family and Succession Matters", carried out by a group of European scholars and funded by the European Community under [...]
Thursday, January 11, 2007
The German Presidency has produced, in accordance with its obligations under Article 2, para. 5, of the Council’s rules of procedure, the indicative provisional agendas for Council meetings prepared by the Permanent Representatives Committee for the period up to 30 June 2007. Scrolling through the agendas, the various proposed Rome Regulations (I, II & III) are [...]
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Rachael Kelsey and Caroline Murphy have written a fairly scathing piece on Rome III (i.e. the “green paper on conflict of laws in matters concerning matrimonial property regimes, including the question of jurisdiction and mutual recognition”) in the latest issue of the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland. Here’s a taster:
Picture the scene. March 2008, [...]
The Federal Council of Germany (Bundesrat) has adopted a resolution on the Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 as regards jurisdiction and introducing rules concerning applicable law in matrimonial matters (”Rome III“).
The Federal Council adopts - in contrast to the UK and Ireland (see our older post) - in principle a [...]
Sunday, November 19, 2006
It seems that the European Commission’s proposal to establish common rules on the applicable laws in cross-border divorce (”Rome III”) has met with widespread criticism in Brussels amongst the EU member states. The proposal sets out which national legislation should apply in the case of a couple of two nationalities or a couple living in their [...]
A dissertation has been published which is of particular interest with regard to the recently published proposal of the European Commission for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 as regards jurisdiction and introducing rules concerning applicable law in matrimonial matters: Sinja Rüberg, Auf dem Weg zu einem europäischen Scheidungskollisionsrecht
Here is a short summary:
With [...]
