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Bosnia and Herzegovina Joint Opinion on the Legal
Strasbourg, Warsaw, 9 December 2019 CDL-AD(2019)026 Opinion No. 951/2019 Or. Engl. ODIHR Opinion Nr.:FoA-BiH/360/2019 EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW (VENICE COMMISSION) OSCE OFFICE FOR DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS (OSCE/ODIHR) BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA JOINT OPINION ON THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK GOVERNING THE FREEDOM OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, IN ITS TWO ENTITIES AND IN BRČKO DISTRICT Adopted by the Venice Commission at its 121st Plenary Session (Venice, 6-7 December 2019) On the basis of comments by Ms Claire BAZY-MALAURIE (Member, France) Mr Paolo CAROZZA (Member, United States of America) Mr Nicolae ESANU (Substitute member, Moldova) Mr Jean-Claude SCHOLSEM (substitute member, Belgium) This document will not be distributed at the meeting. Please bring this copy. www.venice.coe.int CDL-AD(2019)026 - 2 - Table of Contents I. Introduction ................................................................................................................ 3 II. Background and Scope of the Opinion ...................................................................... 4 III. International Standards .............................................................................................. 5 IV. Legal context and legislative competence .................................................................. 6 V. Analysis ..................................................................................................................... 8 A. Definitions of public assembly .................................................................................. -
Directorate-General for Competition 16/03/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION – DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR COMPETITION 16/03/2021 Chief Economist Assistants 01 Commission Priorities and Tobias MAASS Pierre REGIBEAU Director-General Strategic Coordination Agata MAZURKIEWICZ Adviser Antitrust CE.1:Empirical analysis in complex CE.2: Economic analysis in Olivier GUERSENT merger and antitrust cases merger, antitrust and Astrid COUSIN HR Business Correspondent State aid cases Harold NYSSENS 1) Svend ALBAEK Pierre REGIBEAU f.f. Claes BENGTSSON (Deputy to the Director) Principal Adviser: Ex-post economic evaluation Thomas DEISENHOFER Adviser State aid Deputy Director-General Adviser Antitrust Deputy Director-General Deputy Director-General Pascal SCHLOESSLEN Adviser Mergers MERGERS & Cartels Henri PIFFAUT* Dirk VAN ERPS ANTITRUST STATE AID Olivier GUERSENT f.f. Linsey MCCALLUM Carles ESTEVA MOSSO A G R Policy and Strategy H Inge BERNAERTS Cartels Horizontal Management Maria JASPERS State aid: General Scrutiny and Maria VELENTZA Enforcement Adviser Consumer Liaison Ales MUSIL G/1 Cartels I Karl SOUKUP Corinne DUSSART-LEFRET A/1 Antitrust case support and (Deputy to the Director) R/1 Registry and Transparency Glykeria DEMATAKI policy G/2 Cartels II H/1 Infrastructure and Regional aid Sophie MOONEN Hubert DE BROCA Brigitta RENNER-LOQUENZ R/2 Finance and Internal Compliance A/2 Mergers case support and H/2 R&D&I, IPCEI Sari SUURNAKKI G/3 Cartels III (Deputy to the Director) policy Claudia DE CESARIS and environment Inge BERNAERTS f.f. Demos SPATHARIS (Deputy to the Director) R/3 Information technology G/4 Cartels IV Leontina SANDU A/3 State aid case support and Gerald MIERSCH policy H/3 Fiscal aid Karl SOUKUP f.f. -
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 16.12.2019 COM(2019)
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 16.12.2019 COM(2019) 638 final REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION ON THE WORKING OF COMMITTEES DURING 2018 {SWD(2019) 441 final} EN EN REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION ON THE WORKING OF COMMITTEES DURING 2018 In accordance with Article 10(2) of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers1 (the ‘Comitology Regulation’), the Commission hereby presents the annual report on the working of committees for 2018. This report gives an overview of developments in the comitology system in 2018 and a summary of the committees’ activities. It is accompanied by a staff working document containing detailed statistics on the work of the individual committees. 1. OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN THE COMITOLOGY SYSTEM IN 2018 1.1. General development As described in the 2013 annnual report2, all comitology procedures provided for in the ‘old’ Comitology Decision3, with the exception of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny, were automatically adapted to the new comitology procedures provided for in the Comitology Regulation. In 2018, the comitology committees were therefore operating under the procedures set out in the Comitology Regulation, i.e. advisory (Article 4) and examination (Article 5), as well as under the regulatory procedure with scrutiny set out in Article 5a of the Comitology Decision. The Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 20164 recalls, in its point 27, the need to align the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: ‘The three institutions acknowledge the need for the alignment of all existing legislation to the legal framework introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, and in particular the need to give high priority to the prompt alignment of all basic acts which still refer to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny. -
José Manuel Barroso's Leadership of the European Commission
A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Kassim, Hussein Working Paper A new model presidency: José Manuel Barroso's leadership of the European Commission WZB Discussion Paper, No. SP IV 2013-502 Provided in Cooperation with: WZB Berlin Social Science Center Suggested Citation: Kassim, Hussein (2013) : A new model presidency: José Manuel Barroso's leadership of the European Commission, WZB Discussion Paper, No. SP IV 2013-502, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/103427 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, If the documents have been made available under an Open gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort Content Licence -
Russian Federation Interim Opinion on Constitutional
Strasbourg, 23 March 2021 CDL-AD(2021)005 Opinion No. 992/2020 Or. Engl. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW (VENICE COMMISSION) RUSSIAN FEDERATION INTERIM OPINION ON CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND THE PROCEDURE FOR THEIR ADOPTION Adopted by the Venice Commission at its 126th Plenary Session (online, 19-20 March 2021) on the basis of comments by Mr Nicos ALIVIZATOS (Member, Greece) Ms Claire BAZY MALAURIE (Member, France) Ms Veronika BÍLKOVÁ (Member, Czech Republic) Mr Iain CAMERON (Member, Sweden) Ms Monika HERMANNS (Substitute Member, Germany) Mr Martin KUIJER (Substitute Member, Netherlands) This document will not be distributed at the meeting. Please bring this copy. www.venice.coe.int CDL-AD(2021)005 - 2 - Contents I. Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 3 II. Scope of the present opinion .......................................................................................... 4 III. Chronology of the preparation and adoption of the constitutional amendments ............. 4 IV. Analysis of the procedure for the Adoption of the Constitutional Amendments .............. 6 A. Speed of preparation of the amendments - consultations ........................................... 6 B. Competence of the Constitutional Court ..................................................................... 7 C. Competence of the Constitutional Assembly .............................................................. 7 D. Ad hoc procedure ....................................................................................................... -
COLIN BROWN Deputy Head of Unit Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy Directorate-General for Trade European Commission
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law MR. COLIN BROWN Deputy Head of Unit Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy Directorate-General for Trade European Commission Colin Brown is a lawyer and Deputy Head of Unit of Unit F.2 - Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy in the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission. He advises on a range of trade and investment issues. He leads the team of lawyers working on investor-state dispute settlement in the trade and investment policy of the European Union. He has been responsible for developing the EU’s approach to investor- state dispute settlement, led the negotiations on this issue with Canada; was the EU delegate to UNCITRAL during the preparation of the transparency rules; and is responsible for the Regulation on Financial Responsibility for investor-state dispute settlement. In his career with DG TRADE he has worked on all legal aspects of the work of the European Commission in the field of trade, in particular on EU FTAs, in providing advice on EU legislation and on WTO matters. He leads a team of lawyers working on the EU-US negotiations (TTIP). Before joining DG Trade in October 2006 he worked for 6 years for the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he litigated WTO and EU law cases. He has been chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Energy Charter Treaty since January 2004. He is visiting lecturer in WTO law at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium since 2009. He holds an LLB (first class Honours) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, a Diploma in International Relations from the Bologna Center of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy and an LLM in European Law from the College of Europe, Bruges. -
Slovakia Request by the President Pertaining to The
Strasbourg, 21 February 2017 CDL-REF(2017)008 Opinion No. 877 / 2017 Engl. only EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW (VENICE COMMISSION) SLOVAKIA REQUEST BY THE PRESIDENT PERTAINING TO THE APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT WITH REASONING FOR THE QUESTIONS ASKED AND ATTACHMENTS This document will not be distributed at the meeting. Please bring this copy. www.venice.coe.int SLOVAK REPUBLIC RULING of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic PL. ÚS 4/2012 -77 On October 24, 2012, the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic, in the Plenary consisting of its President Ms. Ivetta Macejková and Judges Ján Auxt, Peter Brňák, Ľubomír Dobrík, Ľudmila Gajdošíková, Juraj Horváth, Sergej Kohut, Ján Luby, Milan Ľalík, Lajos Mészáros, Marianna Mochnáčová, Ladislav Orosz and Rudolf Tkáčik deliberated in a closed session the petition from a group of Members of National Council of the Slovak Republic (MPs), represented by R. P. (MP), seeking interpretation of Article 102 para. 1 (t) and Article 150 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic and renders the following Interpretation: President of the Slovak Republic has a duty to deal with the proposal of the National Council of the Slovak Republic to appoint the Prosecutor General of the Slovak Republic pursuant to Article 150 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic and, where the latter has been elected in a procedure in accordance with law, to either appoint the nominated candidate within a reasonable period of time, or inform the National Council of the Slovak Republic -
The European Central Bank's Independence and Its Relations with Economic Policy Makers
Fordham International Law Journal Volume 31, Issue 6 2007 Article 3 The European Central Bank’s Independence and Its Relations with Economic Policy Makers Professor Dr. Rene´ Smits∗ ∗ Copyright c 2007 by the authors. Fordham International Law Journal is produced by The Berke- ley Electronic Press (bepress). http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj The European Central Bank’s Independence and Its Relations with Economic Policy Makers Professor Dr. Rene´ Smits Abstract In this Essay, written for the Fifty Years of European Union (“EU”) Law Conference organized by Fordham Law School, I intend to sketch the independent position of the European Central Bank (“ECB”) in the context of economic policy making within the European Union. I will briefly describe the law and the practice in respect of independence and economic-policy making, both the internal (domestic policies) and the external aspects (international policies). The law is stated as of February 25, 2008. THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK'S INDEPENDENCE AND ITS RELATIONS WITH ECONOMIC POLICY MAKERS ProfessorDr. Ren Smits* INTRODUCTION* In this Essay, written for the Fifty Years of European Union ("EU") Law Conference organized by Fordham Law School, I intend to sketch the independent position of the European Cen- tral Bank ("ECB") in the context of economic policy making within the European Union. I will briefly describe the law and the practice in respect of independence and economic-policy making, both the internal (domestic policies) and the external aspects (international policies). The law is -
Information Guide Euroscepticism
Information Guide Euroscepticism A guide to information sources on Euroscepticism, with hyperlinks to further sources of information within European Sources Online and on external websites Contents Introduction .................................................................................................. 2 Brief Historical Overview................................................................................. 2 Euro Crisis 2008 ............................................................................................ 3 European Elections 2014 ................................................................................ 5 Euroscepticism in Europe ................................................................................ 8 Eurosceptic organisations ......................................................................... 10 Eurosceptic thinktanks ............................................................................. 10 Transnational Eurosceptic parties and political groups .................................. 11 Eurocritical media ................................................................................... 12 EU Reaction ................................................................................................. 13 Information sources in the ESO database ........................................................ 14 Further information sources on the internet ..................................................... 14 Copyright © 2016 Cardiff EDC. All rights reserved. 1 Cardiff EDC is part of the University Library -
The Netherlands in the EU: from the Centre to the Margins?
Adriaan Schout and Jan Marinus Wiersma The Netherlands in the EU: From the Centre to the Margins? 1. From internal market narrative to a narrative of uncertainties In this post-2008 era of European integration, every year seems to have specific – and fundamental – European challenges. For the Netherlands, 2012 was a year in which it was highly uncertain how the Dutch would vote.1 The rather populist anti-EU party of Geert Wilders (PVV-Freedom Party) had proclaimed that the elections would be about and against the European Union. This strategy did not pay off as people voted for stability, also regarding the EU. However, existential doubts about European integration and the euro have persisted and even increased as the emergence of a referendum movement in early 2013 has shown. Although the number of signatures supporting the idea to consider a referendum about the future of the EU rose to close to 60.000 in a couple of months, anti-EU feelings have found less support than one could have expected on the basis of opinion polls. Nevertheless, a strong and persistent doubt about the EU seems evident in the Netherlands even though it has a fairly low level of priority in daily policy debates. For once because there are few real EU issues on the agenda and, secondly, because discussions on, for instance, Treaty changes or the meaning of a ‘political union’ are being downplayed. Pew Research2 showed that 39% of the Dutch would like to leave the EU and Eurobarometer indicates a drop in public support from 60% in 2012 to 45% in 2013. -
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Strasbourg, 16 April 2020 CDL-PI(2020)003 Engl. only EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW (VENICE COMMISSION) COMPILATION OF VENICE COMMISSION OPINIONS AND REPORTS ON STATES OF EMERGENCY 2 CDL-PI(2020)003 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 3 I. BENCHMARKS ............................................................................................................. 4 II. Declaration of state of emergency: definition and substantive requirements ......... 5 III. Derogation from human rights obligations .............................................................. 10 IV. Constitutional entrenchment of the state of emergency ......................................... 12 V. Declaration of state of emergency: competences ................................................... 14 VI. Oversight of the declaration and prolongation of the state of emergency ............ 14 a. Parliamentary oversight ......................................................................................... 14 b. Judicial review ........................................................................................................ 18 VII. Duration of the state of emergency .......................................................................... 21 VIII. Duration of the emergency measures ...................................................................... 22 IX Scope of the emergency measures ......................................................................... -
Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (A/CONF.216/13), to Inform Discussions on the Nature of the Instrument to Be Determined
ISSN 1564-4189 ENVIRONMENT SERIES AND DEVELOPMENT Typology of instruments of public environmental international law Marcos A. Orellana 158 Typology of instruments of public environmental international law Marcos A. Orellana 3 This document was prepared by Marcos A. Orellana for the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The work was reviewed and supervised by Valeria Torres, Economic Affairs Officer, and Carlos de Miguel, Chief of the Policies for Sustainable Development Unit of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division. The comments received from David Barrio, Associate Political Affairs Officer of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlement Division, are much appreciated. The document was prepared at the request of the working group on access rights and the regional instrument established in the Plan of Action to 2014 of the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (A/CONF.216/13), to inform discussions on the nature of the instrument to be determined. A preliminary version of this document was presented at the third meeting of the working group on access rights and the regional instrument, held in Lima on 29 October 2013. This publication was prepared with the financial support of the United Nations Development Account and the project “Improving the management of resources for the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean”. The opinions expressed in this document, which has not undergone formal editorial review, are the sole responsibility of the author and may not reflect the opinions of the Organization.