Enforcement of International Contracts in the European Union: Convergence and Divergence Between Brussels I and Rome I

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Intersentia nv, 2004 - 387 pages
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The enforcement of international contracts in the European Union is increasingly dependent on Community (rather than national) private international law. This book examines the present status and future prospects of Community private international law in the contractual area. It focuses in particular upon the joint analysis of the Rome Convention of 19 June 1980 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (which is likely to be converted in the near future into the Rome I-regulation) and the Brussels I-regulation. Rather than attempting a comprehensive study of Brussels I and Rome I, this book examines a number of key issues considered particularly pertinent from the point of view of the coherence between both instruments. This approach should contribute to the consistency of Community policy-making and legislation in the field of international contracts, to the benefit of market participants. This book is the culmination of a research project funded by the European Commission (DG Justice and Home Affairs, Framework programme for judicial co-operation in civil matters) and co-ordinated by the University of Antwerp Belgium. Eminent European experts have contributed to the book which should prove of interest to law makers, academics and practitioners concerned with the enforcement of contracts in a cross-border context.
 

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Contents

GENERAL REPORT
1
Substantive scope of application of Brussels I
7
Consumer and insurance contracts
13
Questions relating to assignment and subrogation
20
Le champ dapplication ratione loci de Bruxelles I
27
Le champ dapplication ratione materiae
28
Contrats de consommation et dassurance
34
Questions relatives à la cession de créance et
42
Arbitration clauses
201
Conclusions
209
Contracts regulating property regime between
216
Concluding remarks
222
B The Brussels Convention
229
Four Community law criteria for the coordination
235
The companys domicile as general criterion
241
A Article 222 of the Brussels Iregulation
243

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The Community legislator failed to make the com
50
The draft Constitutional Treaty brings substantial
56
Mutual recognition has become the lead principle
58
Regulations must be preferred to directives
66
The Community legislator can contribute in different
73
The relationship between EC substantive law
82
Party autonomy
90
Some general conflictsoflaws issues in the EC system
97
THE EFFECT OF THE ADOPTION OF BRUSSELS I
99
The conclusion of international treaties with
107
Bilateral conventions
116
Final considerations
123
A Applicabilité dans lespace de règles matérielles
129
A Applicabilité des règles sur la circulation des marchandises
135
Conclusion intermédiaire
145
B Applicabilité de Bruxelles I relativement à lacquis
160
Conclusion
172
Contractual obligations for the purposes
180
A Precontractual obligations
186
Jurisdiction clauses
194
E The nonarbitrability of the matters falling within
249
AUTONOMIE DE LA VOLONTÉ ET PRINCIPE
255
Le recours au principe de proximité
261
CONSUMER CONTRACTS AND INSURANCE
269
B Evaluation of the present art 5 The bargaining
275
A Need for a coherent set of rules
289
THE CONSUMER CONCEPT IN EC
295
B Consumer concept in the caselaw of the Court of Justice
302
B Current developments in European consumer policy
311
Parallel application of the consumer concept?
320
LABORUM DULCE LENIMEN ? JURISDICTION
323
Habitual employment in more than one country
330
Nonmandatory mandatory and supermandatory
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adequate and fair legal protection
342
Terminology
344
assertion
352
B Effects of the restrictions
359
B Subrogation and recognition of a foreign judgment
370
B Reform of art 12 Rome Convention in a future
378
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About the author (2004)

Marta Pertegás holds a Doctor of Laws degree. She joined the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in February 2008 as Secretary and focuses on the Hague International Litigation Conventions and other projects related to commercial international law. She became First Secretary in February 2011. Ms Pertegás studied law at the University of Barcelona, Spain; she completed a Master of Laws and PhD thesis on "Cross-border enforcement of patent rights" at the KU Leuven, Belgium. From 2002 to 2008, Ms Pertegás taught private international law, international and comparative procedural law and World Trade Organization law as a full-time tenured professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She is currently teaching "Law of Global Transactions and Litigation" in Antwerp and is frequently invited to give presentations on the work of the Hague Conference in conferences and seminars. Ms Pertegás has written a large number of publications on private, family and commercial international law. From 1999 to 2008, Ms Pertegás was a Member of the Bars of Barcelona and Brussels (European Union's roster) and practised part-time of counsel (one day per week). She served as a Consultant in European International Private Law during the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2001. Since 2003, she has been a Member of the Groupe belge de Droit International Privé (which assisted with the development and assessment of the Belgian Code on Private International Law). In addition, Ms Pertegás worked as an ad hoc Consultant for the DG Justice and Home Affairs of the European Commission in relation to the Green Paper on Succession.



Gert Straetmans is professor of European economic and commercial law at the University of Antwerp. He has been visiting professor at several foreign universities and is visiting professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn. He has published extensively on market practices law, consumer law and European free movement law.

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TitleEnforcement of International Contracts in the European Union: Convergence and Divergence Between Brussels I and Rome I
AuthorJohan Meeusen
EditorsJohan Meeusen, Marta Pertegás Sender, Gert Straetmans
PublisherIntersentia nv, 2004
ISBN9050953727, 9789050953726
Length387 pages
  
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