After the entry of the Czech Republic to the European Community the Czech public authorities have to face the situation that they are obliged to apply not only national law but European law as well. Czech public authorities are not the only ones that solve this problem. National public authorities of other Member States deal with the same challenge.
The application of European law by national public authorities is a problem that brings a lot of interesting questions. No wonder that it was chosen as the topic of the Section of International and European law.
European Community is not traditional international organisation. One of its specific features is the fact that it creates the legal order in defined areas. This order constitutes independent legal system distinct from both national and international law. Even though the EC law is created on the basis of agreement of sovereign states, it becomes the part of national law of each Member State and respective public authorities are obliged to apply this law. There is a difference between the terms EC law and EU law. EU law is a wider concept which includes EC law and rules emerged in the second and third pillar.
The range of contributions found in this collection indicates that the application of European law by national public authorities in not a simple question. The contributions deal with different aspects of this application and with other important problems concerning it.
We hope that all contributions will bring interesting ideas and inspiration for those participants who are interested in European law
Klára Svobodová
| Bedana Bapuly | |
| The constitutional courts of Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary at the European crossroad |
| Igor Blahušiak | |
| Changes in the decision-making procedures of the EU in the Reform Treaty |
| Petra Bohůnová | |
| Common commercial policy: the change of relations between the Czech Republic and the ACP coutries |
| Lenka Červenková | |
| Application of the 'acte clair' doctrine by the national courts and its evaluation in the light of the CILFIT case (demonstrated on the UK case law) |
| Ian Curry-Sumner | |
| Transnational recovery of child maintenance in Europe: the future is bright, the future is central authorities |
| Michal Davala | |
| Recent development in transposition of European antidiscriminational legislation to Slovak legal order |
| Vladimír Doležel | |
| Does the Czech Republic violate a freedom of free movement of capital? |
| Marie Emilie Grossová | |
| European enforcement order |
| Jana Herboczková | |
| GATT/WTO and the European Court of Justice |
| Veronika Hradilová | |
| European law in arbitration proceeding |
| Jarmila Božoňová, David Hütter | |
| Security interest in immovables as a mean of security for debts asserted in bankruptcy proceedings |
| Radka Chlebcová | |
| Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers and the problems of its practical application |
| Martin Janků | |
| Community law as the framework for implementation of EU policies |
| Ondřej Kábela | |
| Access to environmental information |
| Bohumil Kaduch | |
| Squeeze-out procedure in Polish law |
| Roman Kališ | |
| Application of the E.C. competition law goals in the shaping of the E.C. competition law and practice |
| Zdeněk Kapitán | |
| European international insolvency law - a division between private and public law? |
| Filip Křepelka | |
| European law and Czech administrative judiciary: three years after |
| Petra Myšáková, Jiří Valdhans | |
| Theoretical starting points of the direct effect of WTO law in EC/EU legal order |
| Petra Novotná | |
| Judicial cooperation in cross-border insolvency cases |
| Kateřina Novotná | |
| The concept of "joint criminal enterprise" as a form of commission of crimes under international law |
| Zdeněk Nový | |
| The interpretation of article 6/1 of the regulation Brussels I and the abuse of the right to sue in the light of decisions of ECJ |
| Kateřina Říhová, Martin Orgoník | |
| Impact of the WTO on EC and national law |
| Naděžda Rozehnalová | |
| The consumer protection and European international private and procedural law |
| Olga Sakalosh | |
| The implementation of the EU standards to the Ukrainian customs legislation |
| David Sehnálek | |
| External relations of the ES/EU - the enforcement of their interests in cyberspace |
| Michael Siman | |
| The responsibility of national courts for damage caused by breach of community law |
| Kateřina Skřivánková | |
| Conflict of international obligations of Member states of EC and the obligation of loyalty |
| Miroslav Slašťan | |
| Court of Justice recent case law to the application of community |
| Václav Stehlík | |
| Legal personality and standing of legal persons for the purpose of article 230 of TEC |
| Klára Svobodová | |
| Community law and trade in cultural objects |
| Vladimír Týč | |
| International treaties in EC (EU) law and their application in Member states |
| Katarzyna Wójtowicz | |
| EU community law regulations on gross debt of general government |
| Robert Zbíral | |
| Legal questions related to actions of heads of state and governments of Member states of EU |
| Vladimíra Žofčinová | |
| Limits of legal protection of some special categories/women, pregnant women, mothers and juveniles/ in area of international labor law |