EU Shoe Tariff: Balancing Competing Interests

By: Ainsley Brown There is nothing new with European Commission having to balance competing constituents – both market and geographic. The case remains the same with the anti-dumping duties put in place in 2006 to protect EU shoe manufacturers from cheaper Chinese and Vietnamese imports. The EU will decide tomorrow if it will continue or end the duties on the cheaper Chinese and Vietnamese

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German Federal Council sets the brake on the European Private Company

By: Carsten Lexa, LL.M. The German Federal Council (Deutscher Bundesrat) does not like the European Private Company (EPC). With resolution of Oktober 10, 2008 the Federal Council criticises the conditions for the EPC, set out in the proposal for a “Regulation regarding the European Private Company Statute” by the European Commission of June 2008. The Federal Council has two main issues

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The “European Private Company”

By: Carsten Lexa, LL.M. In the European Union, each of the 27 Member States provides regulation for different types of companies. Because of this diversity it is becoming increasingly difficult to know all the differences between the different types. Especially because the European Court of Justice has allowed the utilization of companies set up in one of the Member States

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