-------- -------- ELTE LAW JOURNAL 2014/1 CONteNTS ELTE LAW JOURNAL SYMPOSIUM KOEN LENAERTS: THE CASE LAW OF THE ECJ AND THE INteRNet (2004 – 2014) ENDRE JUHÁSZ: THE INFLUENCE OF UNION LAW ON HUNGARIAN CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LAW BEFORE ACCESSION, DURING THE ACCESSION NEGOTIATIONS AND THEREAFteR L HUGH BEALE: A COMPARISON OF THE CONTRACT SECTIONS OF THE NEW HUNGARIAN CIVIL CODE WITH ENGLISH LAW AND THE PROPOSED COMMON EUROPEAN SAleS LAW EWOUD HONDIUS: RECODIFICATION OF PRIVAte LAW IN CENTRAL AND EASteRN EUROPE AND IN THE NETHERLANDS BÉNÉDICTE FAUVARqUe-COSSON: THE FRENCH CONTRACT LAW REFORM IN A EUROPEAN CONteXT STANISłAW SOłTYSIńSKI: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRINCIPleS OF EqUALITY OF THE EU MeMBER STAteS AND ECONOMIC ACTORS IN EU LAW ARTICleS CHRISTOPH GRABENWARTER: THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS: INHERENT CONSTITUTIONAL TENDENCIES AND THE ROle OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS LÁSZLÓ SZEGEDI: THE EASteRN WAY OF EUROPEANISATION IN THE LIGHT OF JOURNA LAW ELTE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICYMAKING? − IMPleMENTATION CONCERNS OF THE AARHUS CONVENTION-RelAteD EU LAW IN CENTRAL AND EASteRN EUROPE ISTVÁN VARGA: IDENTIFICATION OF CIVIL PROCEDURE REGULATORY NEEDS WITH A COMPARATIVE VIEW 2014/1 ELTE LJ -------- ELJ_201401.indd 1 -------- 2014.09.24. 15:57:39 Law_journal_2014-2_:2.korr. 2014.10.07. 9:31 Page 1 ELTE LAW JOURNAL 2014/1 ELTE LJ Budapest, 2014 Law_journal_2014-2_:2.korr. 2014.10.07. 9:31 Page 2 ELTE Law Journal, published twice a year under the auspices of ELTE Faculty of Law since 2013 President of the Editorial Board • Miklós Király Editor in Chief • Ádám Fuglinszky Editors • Balázs J. Gellér (Criminal Law) • Attila Menyhárd (Private Law) • Pál Sonnevend (Public International Law and European Public Law) • Réka Somssich (Private International Law and European Commercial Law) • István Varga (Dispute Resolution) • Attila Vincze (Constitutional and Administrative Law) Advisory Board • Armin von Bogdandy (Heidelberg) • Adrian Briggs (Oxford) • Marcin Czepelak (Krakow) • Oliver Diggelmann (Zurich) • Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson (Paris) • Erik Jayme (Heidelberg) • Herbert Küpper (Regensburg) • Ulrich Magnus (Hamburg) • Russel Miller (Lexington, Va) • Olivier Moreteau (Baton Rouge, LA) • Marianna Muravyeva (Oxford) • Ken Oliphant (Bristol) • Helmut Rüssmann (Saarbrücken) • Luboš Tichy (Prague) • Emőd Veress (Kolozsvár/Cluj) • Reinhard Zimmermann (Hamburg) Contact • [email protected] Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law • 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1-3, Hungary For submission check out our submission guide at www.eltelawjournal.hu All rights reserved. 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Law_journal_2014-2_:2.korr. 2014.10.07. 9:31 Page 3 Contents Foreword, 10th Anniversary of EU Membership..........................................................................5 SYMPOSIUM........................................................................................................................................7 Koen Lenaerts The Case Law of the ECJ and the Internet (2004 – 2014) ..........................................................9 Endre Juhász The Influence of Union Law on Hungarian Civil and Commercial Law before Accession, during the Accession Negotiations and thereafter....................................27 Hugh Beale A Comparison of the Contract Sections of the New Hungarian Civil Code with English Law and the Proposed Common European Sales Law......................................35 Ewoud Hondius Recodification of Private Law in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Netherlands ........51 Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson The French Contract Law Reform in a European Context ......................................................59 Stanisław Sołtysiʼnski The Importance of the Principles of Equality of the EU Member States and Economic Actors in EU law ....................................................................................................73 ARTICLES ..........................................................................................................................................99 Christoph Grabenwarter The European Convention on Human Rights: Inherent Constitutional Tendencies and the Role of the European Court of Human Rights ..............................................................................................................................101 László Szegedi The Eastern Way of Europeanisation in the Light of Environmental Policymaking? Implementation Concerns of the Aarhus Convention-related EU Law in Central and Eastern Europe..........................................................................................................................117 István Varga Identification of Civil Procedure Regulatory Needs with a Comparative View ................135 Law_journal_2014-2_:2.korr. 2014.10.07. 9:31 Page 4 Law_journal_2014-2_:2.korr. 2014.10.07. 9:31 Page 5 Foreword, 10th Anniversary of EU Membership In May this year it has been 10 years since Hungary acceded to the European Union. In order to celebrate this one decade anniversary, in April 2014 the Faculty of Law of ELTE University hosted an international symposium at which prominent representatives of the European legal community discussed current issues of EU law. These were either connected to the effects of accession or that are the focus of ongoing debates at the European level. This second volume of the ELTE Law Journal is partly devoted to the publication of some of the conference papers which were presented at this conference (Symposium). In his article the vice-president of the European Court of Justice, Koen Lenaerts, summarises the Court’s case law of the last decade connected to a fairly new phenomenon, that of the internet sometimes overturning traditional ways of legal thinking and reasoning. The article of Endre Juhász, judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union, elaborates on the impact of EU law on Hungarian law by analysing its particular influence on Hungarian civil law and commercial law in three different eras, before accession, during the accession negotiations and thereafter. Professor Stanisław Soltysinski discusses the importance of equal treatment between EU Member States with special regard to the effect of the 2004 enlargement. Other contributors reflected on topical European issues of common interest, most of them related to private law and mainly contract law. Professor Ewoud Hondius analyses recodification processes in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Netherlands from a comparative point of view, while Professor Bénédicte Fauvarque- Cosson presents the French contract law reforms put in a European context. Professor Hugh Beale, for his part, makes an in-depth comparison of the contract law section of the new Hungarian Civil Code with English law and the proposed European Sales Law. ELTE Law Journal’s aim to become a regional legal forum is reflected by the selection of three further papers which were offered for us to publish. They all have a definite connection to the Europeanization of the law and to the European Idea as a legal, cultural and moral community. Professor Christoph Grabenwarter, a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court, analyses the European Convention on Human Rights. His paper identifies inherent constitutional trends and tackles the role of the European Court of Human Rights in this field. László Szegedi, who is a Curia (Supreme Court of Hungary) clerk and lecturer at ELTE Law School, reports on the implementation concerns of the Aarhus Convention-related EU Law in Central and Eastern Europe. Last but not Least, our colleague Professor István Varga provides an overwhelming insight ‘behind the scenes’ into the recodification process of civil procedural law in Hungary which involves an international comparative approach. 5 Law_journal_2014-2_:2.korr. 2014.10.07. 9:31 Page 6 ELTE LAW JOURNAL • FOREWORD Attending the conference and reading the papers was a pleasure. Let us share and spread this enrichment on the pages of ELTE Law Journal. Budapest, 21 July 2014. Réka Somssich Ádám Fuglinszky Editor of this issue Editor in Chief Law_journal_2014-2_:2.korr. 2014.10.07. 9:31 Page 7 Symposium Law_journal_2014-2_:2.korr. 2014.10.07. 9:31 Page 8 Law_journal_2014-2_:2.korr. 2014.10.07. 9:31 Page 9 Koen Lenaerts* The Case Law of the ECJ and the Internet (2004 — 2014) Introduction It is no exaggeration to say that the new means of communication arising from use of the Internet have, in the past ten years, transformed the world in which we live. Information is now exchanged in quantities and at a speed that would have been unimaginable for previous generations and this explosion in the number and scope of human contacts, often between individuals who have never actually met, has inevitably given rise to a wide range of new legal disputes and questions. European Union law does not exist in a vacuum and it is not therefore surprising that this revolution in electronic communications has found