Territorial protection of environment and health in the European Community and competitive single market

Direct effect of the acts of World Trade Organisation in the community legal order: Imminent change of case law with the judgements Biret (cases C-93/002 P and C-93/02 P)?

Article 3 of the directive 77/187/EEC and legality of the reduction of the amount of remuneration by the assignee (Á propos of the ECJ judgment of 11.11.2004, C-425/02)

European Federal Constitution and State

The problem of the prohibition of the concerted practice in community law

1. Judgment of 1.4.2004 (Freiburger Kommunalbauten GmbH Baudesellschaft & Co. KG, Ludger Hofstetter and Ulrike Hofstetter, C-237/02), Notes M. V. Semertzidis
Unfair terms in consumer contracts – directive 93/13/EEC (article 3 par. 1)

2. Judgment of 5.10.2004 (CaixaBank France / Ministère de l’ Economie, des Finances et de l’ Industrie, C-442/02), Notes N. I. Eleftheriadis
Freedom of establishment – credit institutions – National legislation prohibiting the payment of remuneration on sight accounts

3. Judgment of 5.10.2004 (Commission of the European Communities / Hellenic Republic, C-475/01), Notes N. Barbas
failure of a Member State to fulfill obligations – article 90 EC – excise duty on alcohol and alcoholic beverages – application to ouzo

4. Judgment of 11.11.2004 (Johanna Maria Delahaye / Ministre de la Fonction publique et de la Réforme administrative, C-425/02)
transfer of an undertaking to the State – safeguarding of employees’ rights – reduction of the amount of remuneration

5. Judgment of 25.11.2004, (KRN Telecom BV / Onafhankelijke Post en Telecommunicatie Autoriteit (OPTA), C-109/03), Notes I. Iglezakis
telecommunications 0 directive 98/10/EC – application of open network provision to voice telephone – information on subscribers – determination of prices

6. Judgment of 30.11.2004, (Peak Holding AB/Axolin – Elinor AB, C-16/03), Notes S. Koutsochinas
trade marks – directive 89/104/EC (article 7 par. 1) – putting on the market of the goods in the CEA

Cases July – September 2004

Cases October – November 2004

Areios Pagos
Judgment 11/2004 (Plenary Session), Notes I.A. Kyritsaki
mandatory expropriation – restriction of the Court of appeal competence to the examination of award of compensation is void -ciolation of the first article of Protocol No. 1 to the ECHR

Court of First Instance of Athens
Judgment 946/2004, Notes S. Akritidis
International competence of Hellenic courts (article 5 par. 1 of Brussels Convention) – place of performance of an obligation (lex causae)

e-vents,
Software patents in EU
Recent evolutions of the «Microsoft» case

International Conference concerning the application of Regulations (EC) 44/2001 and (EC) 1348/2000

Eliza D. Alexandridou, The law of electronic commerce, Hellenic and communitary, Ed. R. Giovannopoulos, Publ. Sakkoulas, Athens – Thessaloniki 2004 (K. P. Theodoridis)

Odysseas Spiliopoulos, International Economic Organisations, Publ. Dionikos 2004 (T. Nikolopoulos)

Maria Kanellopoulou-Boti, Legal protection of data bases, Publ. Nomiki Vivliothiki 2004 (B.P. Gagi)

T.K. Vidalis/K. Manolakou/G. Balias, Genetically modified organisms and sustainable development, Forword K. Menoudakos, Law and Nature, Library of Environmental Law – 13, Publ. Ant. N. Sakkoulas, Athens – Komotini 2004 (B.P. Gagi)

The European community law in the Hellenic legal periodicals 2003 (K. P. Theodoridis)

The collaborators of this number

Tables of the year 2004