Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Philipp Kiiver, Jakub Kodym
When buying goods or services on behalf of a public authority, procurement officers must translate the buyer’s needs into tender documents that are clear, lawful, and well-designed. This guide helps them in this task. Rich in practical examples, it is written for procurement practitioners at all levels of government – from the local to the international – including drafters of calls for tenders, controllers, tender evaluators, managers who authorize public expenditure, risk managers and auditors, as well as for students of public procurement law and public administration.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Sarah Schoenmaekers, Wouter Devroe, Niels Philipsen
This book aims to provide stakeholders – students, but also academics, practitioners, civil servants, and consumers - with a better knowledge of the EU rules on public procurement and State aid. By treating these two legal fields in one volume, the book also intends to draw attention to the largely unexplored links and interfaces between public procurement and State aid rules.
Situation en Belgique et dans l'Union européenne / Situation in Belgium and in the European Union
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Charles-Hubert Born, Francis Haumont
The book focuses on the legal issues arising from the implementation by the national courts of the provisions relating to Natura 2000, in order to assess the contribution of the judge to the effectiveness of this regime.
Droit de propriété, économie et environnement/Property rights, economics and environment
Book | 1st edition 2014 | World | Max Falque, Henri Lamotte
Analyse de la contribution des droits de propriété ou d’usage et des instruments économiques comme alternative et/ou complément à la réglementation afin d’assurer la gestion durable des ressources agricoles et forestières.
A Review from the Perspective of University-Industry R&D Cooperation
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Mario Cisneros
State funding constitutes an important tool to promote innovation by creating links between industry, universities and R&D institutions. In this context, the development of a legal framework that promotes an efficient use of State aid in R&D cooperation represents an important challenge for the EU.
Book | 2nd edition 2014 | Europe | Norbert Reich, Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz, Peter Rott, Klaus Tonner
In recent years, EU consumer law has been subject to spectacular decisions by the European Court of Justice, with important consequences for the private law of Member States. Currently, it is under scrutiny by the EC Commission, which has just published a proposal for the revision of important aspects of the EU consumer law acquis. The authors have taken a broad horizontal approach at the European acquis, thereby reflecting on the history, the achievements and also the shortcomings of EC law.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Marc De Vos, Philippe Culliford
Gender quotas for company boards are becoming a totemic issue of gender diversity policy in today’s labour market. This book analyses the EU proposal to make such quotas obligatory and brings together the experiences of countries that have, to various degrees, taken the road towards formalising gender balance in the board room.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Carlos Esplugues, José Luis Iglesias Buhigues, Guillermo Palao Moreno
Mediation is becoming an increasingly important tool for resolving civil and commercial disputes. The European Directive 2008/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21.5.2008 on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters prescribes a set of minimum common rules on mediation for all EU Member States with the exception of Denmark.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Marco Loos, Marco B.M. Loos, Ilse Samoy
Differences in contract law and the additional transaction costs and complexity they generate in cross-border transactions dissuade a considerable number SMEs from expanding into markets of other Member States. These differences are also said to limit competition in the internal market.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Marc Rigaux, Jan Buelens, Amanda Latinne
Labour law is widely considered to be in crisis. The objective of this book is threefold. First of all, it draws attention to a number of phenomena and processes both within and outside the law that affect the protective mechanisms and essential functions of labour law. Secondly, the authors want to point out their main causes and principal consequences. Finally, the book reflects the remedies proposed by the authors to preserve the essential task of labour law.
Book | 1st edition 2013 | Europe, United Kingdom | Norbert Reich
General Principles of EU Civil Law focuses on a rapidly developing but still highly controversial area of EU law: the emergence of general principles with constitutional relevance for EU civil law, guiding its interpretation, gap filling and legality control.
Book | 1st edition 2013 | Europe | Bram Delvaux, Michaël Hunt, Kim Talus
This fourth volume of the ELRF book “EU Energy Law and Policy Issues”presents an overview of some of the most recent developments taking place in the EU energy law and policy sector.
Book | 1st edition 2013 | Europe | Ignace Claeys, Régine Feltkamp
With the 186 articles of the Common European Sales Law the European Commission proposes an optional legal framework that covers the entire lifecycle of sales contracts and contracts for the supply of digital content, as well as related services. This book is the first to delve deeply into the content of the CESL and to analyse it.
Cet ouvrage offre un tour d'horizon des questions relatives à la neutralité et à l'ouverture d'internet : liberté d'information, non-discrimination dans l'accès à Internet, problèmes de concurrence et de régulation dans une perspective comparative.
This book offers a unique overview of the main legal systems of administrative sanctions with thorough analyses of the administrative law sanctioning systems in 13 Member States and the European Union. The focus is on both remedial and deterrent sanctions in administrative law.
Book | 1st edition 2013 | Europe | Alejandro Saiz Arnaiz, Carina Alcoberro Llivina
‘National constitutional identity’ has become the new ‘buzz word’ in European constitutionalism over the past few years. Much has been written about the concept. This collection brings together a series of contributions from the perspective of both scholars and judges in order to shed some light over the dark corners of constitutional identity. To this end a threefold approach has been followed: a conceptual or philosophical approach, an approach based on EU law, and an analysis of the case-law of several European courts.
Book | 1st edition 2013 | Europe | Katharina Boele-Woelki, Frédérique Ferrand, Cristina González Beilfuss, Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg, Nigel Lowe, Dieter Martiny, Walter Pintens
This book contains the Principles of European Family Law regarding Property Relations between Spouses. In these Principles, the CEFL has developed an all-inclusive set of rules for two matrimonial property regimes: the participation in acquisitions and the community of acquisitions.
The energy and climate change challenge is one of the greatest tests which the EU and its Member States are facing. The need to deliver the triple objectives of the EU’s energy policy, namely a competitive, secure and sustainable energy supply, is stronger than ever. This book analyses whether the current EU regulatory framework for energy law and policy suffices to address the triple objectives of the EU’s energy policy, or by contrast, whether changes to that framework are needed.
