A Common Law for Europe A Guide to European Private Law A Common Law for Europe by Gian Antonio Benacchio and Barbara Pasa Translated by Lesley Orme Central European University Press Budapest New York ©2005 by Gian Antonio Benacchio and Barbara Pasa English translation © by Lesley Orme Published in 2005 by Central European University Press An imprint of the Central European University Share Company Nádor utca 11, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary Tel: +36-1-327-3138 or 327-3000 Fax: +36-1-327-3183 E-mail:
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[email protected] Translated by Lesley Orme All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the permission of the Publisher. ISBN 963 732633 2cloth ISSN 1815-0764 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Benacchio, Gian Antonio. A common law for Europe / by Gian Antonio Benacchio and Barbara Pasa. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9637326332 (hb) -- ISBN 9637326340 (pb) 1. Law--Europe--International unification. 2. Law--European Union countries. I. Pasa, Barbara. II. Title. KJE960.B45 2005 341.242'2--dc22 2005011522 Printed in Hungary by Akaprint Nyomda TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I: Private Law of the European Community: The Process of Harmonization, Uniformization, and Unification . 7 1. Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. European Union and European Community . . . . . . . . . . . 3. The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe . . . . . . 4. ‘European’ Federalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. The Last Enlargement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. Economic and Monetary Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. The Acquis Communautaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. The Dynamics of Legal Transplants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9. Defining ‘European Community Private Law’ . . . . . . . . . 10. Unification and Uniformization of the Law . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Harmonization of the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. Effects on National Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13. ‘Communitarization’ of National Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14. Areas of Law which are Affected by European Community Private Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15. Comparative Law and European Community Private Law Bibliography Chapter I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .