28 - 31 May 2008 | Linz | AUSTRIA

     

General rapporteurs

Preparing the European Union for the Future? Necessary Revisions of Primary Law after the non-ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

General Rapporteur: Prof. Gráinne de Búrca, Fordham Law School, New York (USA).
Prof. de Búrca attends the issue of EU treaty reform in the aftermath of the failure to ratify the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TECE). To that effect information from all Member States on the legal and political responses to the failed TECE, as well as their perspectives on possible future reforms to the EU treaties following that failure, are analysed and compared.

Gráinne de Búrca is a professor at Fordham Law School in New York. Prior to that she was Professor at the European University Institute in Florence and a lecturer in law at Oxford University. She has been a Member of the Executive Committee of the European Union Studies Association since 2003, and is a member of the editorial boards of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the European Law Journal and the Yearbook of European Law. She has published several books, including: EU Law: co-written with P.P. Craig (4th Ed., Oxford U. Press, 2007 forthcoming), and New Governance and Constitutionalism in Europe and the U.S., co-edited with Joanne Scott (Hart Publishing, 2006), as well as a range of articles on constitutional aspects of European integration.

EC-Rapporteur: Pieter van Nuffel, Legal Services of the European Commission

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The Modernisation of the European Competition Law - Initial Experiences with Regulation 1/2003

General Rapporteur: Prof. Joachim Bornkamm, Presiding Judge, Federal Supreme Court of Germany, Karlsruhe.
Prof. Bornkamm strives to gather and discuss the experiences which have been made with the modernisation of European Competition Law in the Member States and in the European Union. Since May 2004 Regulation 1/2003 is in force, which has fundamentally modernized European competition law. The most important changes include the transition to the legal exception system, the precedence of European competition law over the competition laws of the Member States, the readjustment of decision and investigation competences of the Commission as well as the intensifying of the cooperation between the Commission on one hand and competition authorities and national courts on the other hand.
Prof. Bornkamm is a Presiding Judge at the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof). He presides over the the First Civil Chamber and is a member of the Chamber dealing with competition cases. He is president of the Association of European Competition Law Judges (AECLJ). From the beginning he has played an active role in the discussion about the modernisation of European competition law. As Honorary Professor he teaches Competition Law and Intellectual Property at the University of Freiburg.

EC-Rapporteur: Eric Gippini Fournier, Legal Services of the European Commission

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The New Services Directive of the European Union - Hopes and Expectations from the Angle of a (Further) Completion of the Internal Market

General Rapporteur: Prof. Stefan Griller, Director, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
Prof. Griller examines the political and legal controversies concerning the Directive 2006/123/EC on services in the internal market (Services Directive), and its effects on Member States’ legal orders. In doing so, he distinguishes between the positions taken up by the governments of the Member States, including possible parliamentary consultations, opinions and mandates that were binding for governmental organs, statements of the European Parliament as well as of social partners and influential NGOs.

Prof. Stefan Griller, Jean Monnet Professor of Legal Issues of European integration, is the head of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien since 1 July 2005. Since December 1998 he is vice chairman of the Federal Procurement Control Commission. He was promoted an associate professor for Public Law with special regard to European Law in 1991. Amongst others, Prof. Griller was also a visiting professor at Tamkang University in Taipeh (1994) and at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht/Luxemburg (1996-99).

EC-Rapporteur: Fernando Florindo Gijón, Legal Services of the Council of the EU

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