{"title":"Regional Court in Brno on Cartels in 2012. Case Comments to Judgments in CRT Cartel and GIS Cartel.","authors":"P. Pipková","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2737967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2737967","url":null,"abstract":"The judgements commented here concern procedural questions and questions of substantial law. They are especially interesting because they cover a set of rules how to proceed in cartel proceedings and cartel investigations. They also acknowledge that a range of procedural rules that was formulated for the European Commission by EU courts applies also to procedures conducted by the Office. The following text deals with the most important principles which the Czech competition authority must abide to.","PeriodicalId":121229,"journal":{"name":"European Public Law: National eJournal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121126463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self Declaration or Self Determination: A Comparative of Kosovo and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus","authors":"T. Stephen","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2272023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2272023","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will explore the various interpretations of the criteria of becoming a state as listed in the Montevideo treaty with particular focus on how it relates to the formation and recognition of Kosovo and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The writings of Richard Caplan, Roselyn Higgins, literature reviews of academic journals and opinions of experts in the field will be explored. There are variants of recognition such as de facto or de jure that are applicable to a state or government seeking recognition. The purpose, circumstances and the organisation from which they seek such recognition will determine the status they are accorded. The conditions for seeking recognition from the United Nations, States and other international organisations will be analysed to determine if state recognition is an international obligation or a choice which other states exercise. The use of recognition as a tool for conflict management as experienced in the defunct Former socialist republic of Yugoslavia will also be examined with the use of relevant case laws, and reports to draw conclusion from the entire discussion.","PeriodicalId":121229,"journal":{"name":"European Public Law: National eJournal","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123575160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Branches of Companies in the EU: Balancing the Eleventh Company Law Directive, National Company Law and the Right of Establishment","authors":"K. Sørensen","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2264091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2264091","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the current regulation of branches of foreign companies in Union law and in the laws of five Member States. First there is an examination of how the Member States regulate when foreign companies can and must register a branch, and it is shown that the lack of a definition of a ‘branch’ makes it very difficult to implement the Directive correctly and without infringing primary EU law. Next the disclosure requirements of the Directive are examined, and it is concluded that the Eleventh Company Law Directive sets fairly clear standards, so that on this point – with few exceptions – national law seems to implement the Directive correctly. The final part of the article focuses of the regulation of selected areas of the substantive regulation of branches, including the regulation of branch management, accounting documents, bookkeeping, capital requirements and branch names. It is shown that in regulating these topics national company law very often restricts the right of establishment, so it is necessary to test whether the national rules can be justified. This is often very difficult to evaluate and consequently it seems that the right of establishment is often infringed. Another consequence of this uncertainty is that national law on these issues often differs between Member States. To overcome these differences and to offer the Member States better guidelines on how to apply EU law, it may be desirable to extend the harmonisation of the law on branches of foreign companies to cover some of these substantive issues.","PeriodicalId":121229,"journal":{"name":"European Public Law: National eJournal","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116664228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constitutional Socio-Economic Rights and International Law: 'You are Not Alone'","authors":"T. Stein","doi":"10.17159/1727-3781/2013/V16I1A2300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2013/V16I1A2300","url":null,"abstract":"The second oratio was a keynote speech delivered by Torsten Stein, the Director of the Institute of European Studies and holder of the chair for European law and European Public Law at Saarland University, Germany. He delivered his speech during November 2012 at the 3rd Human Rights Indaba on The Role of International Law in Understanding and Applying the Socio-economic Rights in South Africa's Bill of Rights, which was held by the Faculty of Law (NWU, Potchefstroom Campus) in collaboration with the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation. He shared some thoughts about the nature, development and implementation of socio-economic rights within an international and European setting. The next nine articles make up the bulk of this issue.","PeriodicalId":121229,"journal":{"name":"European Public Law: National eJournal","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122776525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disclosure of Beneficial Ownership – From EU Major Shareholdings Directive to EU New Transparency Directive – What Needs to Be Changed in Croatian Securities Markets Act?","authors":"Edita Čulinović Herc, Dionis Jurić","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2239280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2239280","url":null,"abstract":"Disclosure of beneficial ownership is a powerful mechanism for protection of the investors on the capital markets. Through the duty to disclose beneficial ownership issuers, being listed companies, and other participants on capital market (individual investors, institutional investors, competent authorities), can obtain valuable information for creation of their portfolios. The Admission and Information Directive 2001 and the Proposal for a Transparency Directive 2003 are focused in this point. In Croatian Law the disclosure of beneficial ownership is regulated by the Securities Market Act 2002. The following paper takes its starting point in the provisions of the Directive, which is in force, but it gives also information on how Admission Directive was implemented in the laws of some member states given the fact that some countries have rules which are more stricter or more widely applicable that those in the Directive. While having in mind that Croatian law is generally harmonized with Admission Directive reference is given to the diverging points, and especially what needs to be changed in order to comply to the standards contained in forthcoming Transparency Directive.","PeriodicalId":121229,"journal":{"name":"European Public Law: National eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125965938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-Border Tax Problems of EU and Third Countries","authors":"Natalija Zunic","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2237424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2237424","url":null,"abstract":"The cross-border operation of individuals and business brings about the problems of double taxation. Long time ago countries resorted to conclusion of bilateral treaties in the attempt to eliminate these obstacles to movement and trade. Besides unilateral measures, double taxation treaties are an important instrument in today's taxation policy of many countries. In the same time double taxation treaties are also identified as tax obstacles, especially in the area of company taxation in the single market. The EU must consider possible conflicts between the EC Treaty and the bilateral double taxation treaties that Member States have concluded with each other and with third countries. It is a part of EU general strategy and policy of addressing the crossborder tax problems. Described situation requires urgent solution and it is possible to find several proposals in this field. Although this proposals can be divided in two main groups – namely, positive and negative integration it is clear that mentioned conflict(s) can not be resolved through negative integration (of direct taxes within the EU by ECJ). But, the double taxation agreements of Member States will continue to be subject to review by the ECJ and there are certain rulings in this area that must be pointed out. The second group of solution is positive integration is consisted of several (possible) activities. Not third, but more intermediate solution is also suggested. Since Amsterdam Treaty introduced and Nice Treaty developed further the possibilities for closer cooperation between sub-groups of “compatible” member states it is suggested “closer cooperation” because it might provide a moving forward in the area of direct taxation and cross-border tax problems.","PeriodicalId":121229,"journal":{"name":"European Public Law: National eJournal","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129385427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"European Enlargement and the Economic Crisis: Impact and Lasting Effects","authors":"Rebecca L. Zahn","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2198879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2198879","url":null,"abstract":"This working paper by Rebecca Zahn of the University of Stirling looks at the effects of the economic crisis on the enlarged European Union and the European Social Model.Starting from an analysis of the well-known Viking and Laval decisions of the European Court of Justice from 2007 and 2008, the author of the report sees increasing tensions between EU member states over “social dumping”, austerity packages and growing inequality between workers.This development results in citizens questioning the benefits of further European integration and threatens the very existence of the European social model.","PeriodicalId":121229,"journal":{"name":"European Public Law: National eJournal","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133362895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The French Parliament: A European Scrutineer or National Actor?","authors":"D. Jančić","doi":"10.54648/euro2013007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54648/euro2013007","url":null,"abstract":"With the Treaty of Lisbon in force, the expectation for national parliaments to democratize EU decision making has risen tangibly. This raises the question of the relationship between them and the European Parliament, as two channels of EU legitimation. The main argument of this article is that, in circumstances of high political salience of EU initiatives, national parliaments can be deemed to be European actors, performing their constitutional functions within a broader EU legal order as direct counterparts of EU institutions. To demonstrate this, we delve into the French Parliament's scrutiny of the Services Directive and the European External Action Service Decision, both of which have sparked strong reactions in many parliamentary corners of Europe. We focus on the role perceptions of the French MPs and senators in their ex ante monitoring of these two dossiers. The analysis reveals that political control is not always directed only at the Government, but that EU institutions can be addressees of national parliamentary scrutiny.","PeriodicalId":121229,"journal":{"name":"European Public Law: National eJournal","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127025379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Piani attestati di risanamento e accordi di ristrutturazione del debito (Renovation Plans and Debt Restructuring Agreements)","authors":"M. Cossu","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2173333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2173333","url":null,"abstract":"Italian Abstract: La nuova legge fallimentare italiana propone due modelli di ristrutturazione stragiudiziale dell’impresa commerciale in crisi: il piano attestato di risanamento e l’accordo di ristrutturazione dei debiti. Esamineremo entrambi con specifico riguardo all’archetipo della societa di capitali chiusa e normalmente “piccola” rappresentato dalla s.r.l. L’analisi si concentrera sugli accordi di ristrutturazione del debito in quanto sono i naturali succedanei dei concordati stragiudiziali, o amichevoli, diffusi nella prassi antecedente la riforma fallimentare.a>English Abstract: The new Italian bankruptcy Law offers two models for renovate commercial enterprise in crisis: the plan of reorganization and the debt restructuring agreement. We will examine both issues with specific attention to the Archetype of the limited liability company, that is normally a \"closed\" and \"small\" company (italian societa a responsabilita limitata - srl). Our Analysis will focus on the debt restructuring agreements as they are the natural substitutes of-court dispute settlement.","PeriodicalId":121229,"journal":{"name":"European Public Law: National eJournal","volume":"1 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116924864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housing, Land and Property Issues of Formerly Deported Peoples (FDP's) in Crimea","authors":"Veljko Mikelic","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2309340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2309340","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis and assessment of the current land-related disputes in Crimea. It focuses on the main causes of conflict over land in the region and ends with a set of conclusions and recommendations aimed at defusing the conflict, as well as proposing measures and means for ensuring an efficient and transparent land management system for Crimea in the future. The study comprises four sections: -Crimean Land Conflict ‑ Origins -Return, Land and Conflict -Land Squatting Issues (Samozakhvaty) -Proposed Strategy for a Comprehensive Solution of Crimean Land disputes.","PeriodicalId":121229,"journal":{"name":"European Public Law: National eJournal","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123824049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}