Legal Instruments

• Brussels Convention:


1968 Brussels Convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters

• Brussels I Regulation:


Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters

• Brussels II Regulation:


Council Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000 of 29 May 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and in matters of parental responsibility for children of both spouses

• Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) (Geneva, 19 May 1956)

• European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters:


2001/470/EC: Council Decision of 28 May 2001 establishing a European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters

• European Judicial Network:


(98/428/JHA) Joint Action of 29 June 1998 adopted by the Council on the basis of Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union, on the creation of a European Judicial Network

• Green paper - Compensation to crime victims:


/* COM/2001/0536 final */

• Green paper on alternative dispute resolution in civil and commercial law


/* COM/2002/0196 final */

• Insolvency Regulation:


Council regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings

• Legal Aid Directive:


Council Directive 2002/8/EC of 27 January 2003 to improve access to justice in cross-border disputes by establishing minimum common rules relating to legal aid for such disputes

• Lugano Convention:


88/592/EEC: Convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters - Done at Lugano on 16 September 1988

• New Regulation replacing Regulation Brussels II:


Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000

• Proposal for a Council Regulation creating a European enforcement order for uncontested claims


/* COM/2002/0159 final - CNS 2002/0090 */Official Journal C 203 E , 27/08/2002 P. 0086 – 0107

• Regulation on Service of Documents:


Council regulation (EC) No 1348/2000 of 29 May 2000 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters

• Regulation on Taking of Evidence:


Council Regulation (EC) No 1206/2001 of 28 May 2001 on cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters