Previous Congresses

Topics:

• The Protection of Fundamental Rights Post-Lisbon: The Interaction between the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the European Convention on Human Rights and National Constitutions
• The Interface between European Union Energy, Environmental and Competition Law
• The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Including Information Society Issues

Topics:

• Public Capital and Private Capital in the European Union
• The Role of National Parliaments within the European Union
• The Judicial Application of EC Competition Rules

Topics:

• Preparing the European Union for the Future?-Necessary Revisions of Primary Law after the non-ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
• The Modernisation of the European Competition Law
• The new Services Directive of the European Union – Hopes and Expectations from the Angle of a (Further) Completion of the Internal Market

Topics:

• Direct Tax Rules and the EU Fundamental Freedoms: Origin and Scope of the Problem
• State Aid: the Effective Application of EU State Aid Procedures: From a Plan to Grant Aid to the Recovery of Illegal Aid – the Role of National Law and Practice
• The New Services Directive of the European Union – Hopes and Expectations from the Angle of a (Further) Completion of the Internal Market

Topics:

• Criminal Law in the European Union: a Giant Leap or Small Step?
• European Union Competition Law and Policy: the Reform of Competition Law Enforcement – will it work?
• European Union and Member State Migration and Asylum Law

Topics:

• European Law and National Constitutions
• Financial Services in the Era of the Euro and E-commence: Does Home Control Work?
• Cross Border Mergers in Company Law and Competition Law: Removing the Final Barriers

Topics:

• The Duties of Co-operation of National Authorities and Courts and the Community Institutions under art. 10 (art. 5) of the Treaty of Rome
• Community Law (including Competition Rules) Affecting Networks (Telecom, Energy and Information Technology)
• Legal Consequences of the Single Currency

Topics:

• Community Directives: Effects, Efficiency, Justiciability
• National Application of Community Competition Law
• The Citizen, the Administration and Community Law

Topics:

• National Constitutional Law vis-a-vis European Integration
• Energy and Environmental Protection in a European Perspective
• Procedures and Sanctions in Economic Administrative Law

Topics:

• The Principle of Subsidiarity
• Competition Law Implications of Deregulation and Privatisation

Topics:

• The Provision of Financial Services within the EEC and to Third Countries
• The Sanctions for Infringing Community Law
• New Aspects of the Free Movement of Persons: towards a European Citizenship

Topics:

• Application, in the Member States, of Directives to the Public Sectors
• Fiscal Harmonisation: the Challenge of 1993
• The Control of Concentrations of Undertakings

Topics:

• Legal Aspects of Community Action in the Domain of Culture
• The Effects of Community Law on National Labour Laws
• Community Law and Civil Aviation

Topics:

• General Principles Common to the Laws of the Member States as a Source of Community Law. Interaction between Community Law and National Law
• Community Aids, National Aids and Antidumping Measures
• The Freedom to Provide Services and the Right of Establishment, in Particular as Regards Insurance Companies and Banks

Topics:

• Consumer Protection
• The Elimination of Non-Tariff Barriers (with Particular Reference to Industrial Property Law and Copyrights)
• The Scope and Nature of the Powers of the European Communities in the Domain of External Relations

Topics:

• The Different National Techniques for the Legal Protection against Violations of Community Law
  a. by National Authorities
  b. by Individuals
• Investor Protection by Controlling Stock Markets, through Legislation on the Accountancy of Companies and by Other Means
• The Possibilities of Conflict between the Community Institutions in their Application of Community Law

Topics:

• Equal Treatment of Public and Private Undertakings
• Fundamental Safeguards in the Administrative Procedure

Topics:

• Fundamental Rights
• The Economic Policy of the Community and the Member States, and the Rights of Undertakings
• The Participation of Citizens in the Decision Making Process at a Community Level

Topics:

European Case Law after Twenty Years of Experience of Community Law:

• the General Problems of Integration
• the Creation of a European Economic Order
• the Free Movement of Persons within the Community and Social Questions

Topics:

Cooperation between the Community Legal Order and the National Legal Orders:

• in the Sector of Agriculture
• in the Doman of Competition
• as regards Energy

Topics:

• Similarities and Differences between Community Law and Classic International Law

Topics:

• Measures to Ensure the Introduction of Community Law into the National Legal Systems
• Harmonisation of Company Laws

Topics:

• Does the Ignorance of Community Rules Directly Applicable to Undertakings Create a Right to Civil Redress by Means of Damage?

Topics:

• Company Mergers
• Anti-Trust Laws
• Sales with Promotional Free Gifts