Fallon, Marc Keywords: European Economic Community | Private international law | European Union | Mots clefs: C.E.E. | Droit international privé | Union européenne | ABSTRACT In his course, Marc Fallon, Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, sets out to measure the impact of the Community's body of rules relating to the internal market on the general theory of conflict of jurisdictions and conflicts of law. To this purpose, Professor Fallon demonstrates that it is possible for the Community to treat issues of pr…

Luchaire, François Keywords: European Economic Community | Association agreements | Mots clefs: C.E.E. | Associations | ABSTRACT Francois Luchaire, President of the University of Paris I, highlights that the association with the European Economic Community appears to be a transitional formula employed in two different ways: the association can be a transition to the future, that is to say, toward accession, and for European states; the association can also be a transition from the past for States which were form…

R. Simmonds, Kenneth Keywords: European Economic Community | Law of the sea | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego-Bay, 10 December 1982) | Mots clefs: C.E.E. | Droit de la mer | Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer [Montego-Bay, 10 décembre 1982] | ABSTRACT On 7 December 1984, the European Economic Community signed the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The objective of this course, given by Kenneth Simmonds, Professor at Queen Mary College, London, is to review the most significant issues of…

J. Fawcett, J. Keywords: European Economic Community | Products | Accountability | Mots clefs: C.E.E. | Produits | Responsabilité | ABSTRACT The European Community has developed a set of rules relating to products liability that is unique in the world. The European consumer product liability law is the object of this course by J.J. Fawcett, Professor at the University of Leicester. The author first of all presents the substantive law background in Europe and its significance for private international law. Professor …

V. M. Struycken, A. Keywords: European Economic Community | Private international law | Mots clefs: C.E.E. | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT The European Community presents itself as a strong and demanding legal order, which profoundly transforms the law of states and the condition of litigants, and gives precedence to its primacy over the law of the Member States. In this course, A.V.M. Struycken makes the reader to reflect on the constitutional framework of the European Community. The author deals with the sou…

Vignes, Daniel Keywords: European Economic Community | Most-favoured-nation clause | Mots clefs: C.E.E. | Clause de la nation la plus favorisée | ABSTRACT The most-favored-nation clause is the stipulation of a treaty by which one State confers on another State the advantages which it has already granted or which it would grant to any other State. In certain circumstances and due the specific nature of the links between promising and favored third States – for example, the establishment of a Customs union or a free tra…

Piontek, Eugeniusz Keywords: European Economic Community | Customs law | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | Customs union | Mots clefs: C.E.E. | Régime douanier | Accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce | Union douanière | ABSTRACT In this course devoted to European integration and international law of economic interdependence, Eugeniusz Piontek, director of the department of European law at the University of Warsaw, focuses his attention on four topics that have a global dimension, to see how the Community pattern…

Vignes, Daniel Keywords: Developing countries | European Economic Community | International relations | Mots clefs: Pays en voie de développement | C.E.E. | Relations internationales | ABSTRACT Daniel Vignes, Director of Development Cooperation at the Council of the European Communities, focuses in his course on two issues. The first issue is the concept of development cooperation under the Lomé III Convention, which is devoid of any political dogmatism, based on basic principles, objectives, and rules - some of which are…

Teitgen, Pierre-Henri Keywords: European Economic Community | Decisions | Decision-making | Mots clefs: C.E.E. | Décisions | ABSTRACT For Pierre-Henri Teitgen, the study of the decision (in a broader sense of the term) in the European Economic Community, like the study of the decision in any other international organization, mainly comes down to the examination of two problems: what is the autonomy of the decision-making power of the community compared to the Member States of the Community? To what extent do the …