ZWeR 2006, 1
Choice of court and applicable law in tortious actions for breach of Community competition law
The present article deals with questions of jurisdiction and applicable law for tortious claims based on an infringement of EC antitrust rules. It is therefore concerned with the interface between two areas of law: competition law and private international law. The article will examine in particular Community law on jurisdiction as well as proposed rules at Community level on applicable law.
Contents
- I. Introduction
- II. Jurisdiction
- 1. Variety of choices of court: problems of forum shopping
- 2. Parties' freedom of choice of court
- 3. General jurisdiction: Art. 2
- 4. Special jurisdiction: Art. 5 (3) and Art. 6 (1)
- 4.1 Special jurisdiction for tort claims (Art. 5 (3))
- 4.2 Special jurisdiction under Art. 6 (1)
- 5. Stay and decline of jurisdiction (lis pendens)
- 5.1 Mandatory stay or decline of jurisdiction: Art. 27
- 5.2 Stay or decline at the option of the court: Art. 28
- III. Applicable Law
- 1. National Solutions
- 1.1 German law
- 1.2 Swiss law
- 2. Harmonization of the rules: the „Rome II“ project
- 2.1 The general rule: Art. 3 of the proposal
- 2.2 Lex loci delicti: an effects-based approach
- 2.3 Law of the Forum
- 2.4 Problems with an effects-based approach: the Mosaikbetrachtung
- IV. Conclusion
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- *)DG Presidency, European Parliament, Brussels
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- **)LL.M. (London), Maîtrise en Droit (Montpellier), Rechtsanwalt and Associate at the Cologne office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
The authors would like to thank Friedrich Wenzel Bulst, Richard Burnley, Jon Lawrence and Eddy de Smijter for comments on earlier drafts of this paper. The authors would like to stress that the present article reflects their personal opinions only. All errors and omissions are the responsibility of the authors.
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