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The European Commission published in April 2017 the 2017 EU Justice Scoreboard, which gives a comparative overview of the efficiency, quality and independence of justice systems in the EU Member States in order to assist national authorities to improve the effectiveness of their justice systems. Com... [Read All]

The Court of justice delivered on 16 February 2017 its judgment in case C 507/15, Agro Foreign Trade & Agency Ltd v Petersime NV, which is about commercial agents in third States and the well-known Council Directive 86/653/EEC of 18 December 1986 on the coordination of the laws of the Member Sta... [Read All]

The Communication from the European Commission on “EU law: Better results through better application” (C/2016/8600) was published on 19 January 2017 (OJEU, C 18). This communication covers a wide variety of topics, along with a detailed annex on the “Administrative procedures for ... [Read All]

On 28 February 2017, MEP Emil Radev presented his draft report of 10 February 2017 on ‘Common minimum standards of civil procedure’. He requests that the Commission submit a proposal for a directive setting minimum rules on inter alia effective judicial protection, oral hearings, provisi... [Read All]

The UK Government released in February 2016 a paper entitled ‘The process for withdrawing from the European Union’. The forthcoming referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union may turn out to be in favour of a Brexit according to the latest survey (The Observer, 3 Apri... [Read All]

The Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament has released on 21 December 2015 a working document on establishing common minimum standards for civil procedure in the European Union – the legal basis (Rapporteur: MEP Emil Radev). The working document states that the f... [Read All]

Today, 1st July 2013, Croatia becomes the 28th member state of  the  EU. This change will also affect the 4063 lawyers and 1753 trainee lawyers, who, at the moment, according to the Croatian Bar Association,  are members of the Croatian Bar Association. The editors of Altalex.E... [Read All]