The 29th GEDIP Annual Meeting was held from September 13-15, 2019 in Katowice, at the invitation of Mr. Szpunar, at the premises of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia. The Group has finalized a new approach to European private international divorce law. One of its members, Paul Lagarde, was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Silesia.
Recast of the Regulations on divorce – The European Union and Regulations and Conventions on uniform substantive law — Current developments in Union law: The effect of foreign mandatory rules, remarks on the Nikiforidis judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union; Regulations on matrimonial property regimes and the property effects of registered partnerships; Brexit and private international law; Personal status of migrants – Current work of the Commission – News from the Hague Conference: the Judgments project – Current case law of the European Court of Human Rights – Current national laws: Italian legislation on civil union; German legislation on same-sex marriage and on the fight against child marriages – Examination of the advisability of a European instrument on rights in rem.
Recast of the Brussels IIa Regulation on parental responsibility and child abduction – Project on the law applicable to companies – Le droit international privé après le Brexit – Current Union law : Data Protection and PIL – News from the Commission – Follow-up to the Declaration on the Legal Status of Applicants for International Protection from Third Countries to the European Union – News from the Hague Conference – Current case law of the European Court of Human Rights – Current national laws: Italian Law on Civil Unions and Cohabitations – The European Union and Regulations and Conventions on uniform substantive law.
European rules on the law applicable to companies – Draft Regulation on divorce – Legal status of persons seeking international protection in a situation of mass influx – Opinion 2/13 of the Court of Justice and private international law – Gazprom: “Antisuit injunction” and arbitration – News from the Hague Conference – Current work of the Commission – Current case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
Codification of European private international law: the law applicable to companies – Current Union Law – The relationship between Regulation (EU) No. 606/2013 on the mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters, Directive 2011/99/EU on the European Protection Order and the Brussels IIa Regulation – Current Union Law: Work of the Commission – News from the Hague Conference – Reflections with a view to (A) a better articulation of the regime of the law applicable in matters of parental responsibility and (B) a better operation of the provisions supplementing the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction – Current case law of the European Court of Human Rights: An exceptional year of activity in private international law – Codifying Choice of Law around the world.
Nationality conflicts in existing European instruments – Reflections on nationality as a connecting factor – The treatment of foreign law in European private international law – The recast of Brussels I Regulation and the forum of cultural property – Current issues on the recognition of public acts – News from the Hague Conference – News from the European Union – Current case law of the European Court of Human Rights – Is there a need for a new Regulation on the law applicable to companies?
The role of nationality as a general principle of European private international law – The recognition of foreign legal situations – The status of foreign law under Union law – The law applicable to the enforceability against third parties of an assignment of claims – Current developments in Union law – News from the Hague Conference – Current case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
The role of nationality as a general principle of European private international law – Draft Articles for the general part of a European code of private international law – The treatment of foreign law in European Union law – The law applicable to civil liability in connection with the issue of securities – Current developments in European Union law – News from the Hague Conference – Current case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
The Brussels I Regulation and judgments given in a third country – Amendment of Article 22a of the Bergen text –Nationality as a connecting factor and conflicts of nationality in European Union law – Problem of proof and access to foreign law – Current developments in European Union law – News from the Hague Conference – Current case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
External competence of the Union – Analysis of Regulation 864/2007 of 11 July “Rome II” – The “Rome III” project on divorce – Impact of the draft Treaty on European Union and on the functioning of the Union – News from secondary legislation – News from international organisations – Current work of the European Union – Current case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
The effects of harmonisation on proof and the application of foreign law – Follow-up of the work concerning the elaboration of a Brussels II Convention – Follow-up of the work concerning the interaction of secondary law and the Brussels and Rome Conventions – Follow-up of the work concerning security interests.
