The application of the UNIDROIT Ptinciples of International Commercial Contracts and the Principles of European Contract Law by the national courts and the arbitral tribunals

State aid and its application in the energy sector

Public procurement awards in the framework of financing international development

Institutional framework of concession contracts concerning marine infrastructures in Greece

1. Judgment of 18.7.2006 (David Meca-Medina, Igor Majcen / Commission of the European Communities, Republic of Finland, C-519/04 P), Notes Th. Papadopoulos
appeal – rules adopted by the International Olympic Committee concerning doping control – incompatibility with the Community rules on competition and freedom to provide services – complaint – rejection

2. Judgment of 26.10.2006 (Commission of the European Communities / Hellenic Republic, C-65/05), Notes K. P. Theodoridis
failure of a Member-State to fulfill obligations – articles 28, 30, 43, 49 EC – prohibition of the installation and operation of electrical, electromechanical and electronic games subject to criminal or administrative sanctions- directive 98/34/EC – national legislation applicable to electrical, electromechanical and electronic games

3. Judgment of 6.3.2007 (Massimiliano Placanica, Christian Palazzese, Angelo Sorricchio, C-38, 359, 360/04), Notes A. Tsadiras
freedom of establishment – freedom to provide services – interpretation of articles 43 EC and 49 EC – games of chance – collection of bets or sporting events – licensing requirement – exclusion of certain operators by reason of their type of corporate form – criminal penalties

Cases September – December 2006

Cases July – October 2005

Court of Appeal of Pireus
Judgment No. 884/2005, Notes P. S. Yiannopoulos
evidence – documents in a foreign language not accompanied by a certified translation are null as evidence – they are taken in account only when testimonial proof is permitted

e-vents
1st Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum
Article 342 para. 4 of the Criminal Code: Abuse of minors to indecent assault (via the Internet)

Governance and Internet – Geopolitical reality

Conference of the Thessaloniki Bar Association concerning the institution of mediation

Symposium of the Thessaloniki Bar Association on the Constitutional Court

Vassilios Kourtis, Producer’s liability of defective products in international private law, Publ. Sakkoulas, Athens-Thessaloniki, 2006 (Z. Papassiopi-Passia)

Ioannis D. Iglesakis, Introduction to Information Technology Law, Publ. Sakkoulas, Athens-Thessaloniki, 2006 (K. P. Theodoridis)

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