Previous Congresses
BRUSSELS 1961
Topics:
- Company Mergers
- Anti-Trust Laws
- Sales with Promotional Free Gifts
THE HAGUE 1963
Topics:
- Does the Ignorance of Community Rules
- Directly Applicable to Undertakings
- Create a Right to Civil Redress by Means of Damage?
PARIS 1965
Topics:
- Measures to Ensure the Introduction of Community Law into the National Legal Systems
- Harmonisation of Company Laws
ROME 1968
Topics:
- Similarities and Differences between Community Law and Classic International Law
BERLIN 1970
Cooperation between the Community Legal Order and the National Legal Orders:
- in the Sector of Agriculture
- in the Doman of Competition
- as regards Energy
LUXEMBOURG 1973
Topics:
European Case Law after Twenty Years of Experience of Community Law:
- the General Problems of Integration
- the Creation of a European Economic Order
- the Free Movement of Persons within the Community and Social Questions
BRUSSELS 1975
Topics:
- Fundamental Rights
- The Economic Policy of the Community and the Member States, and the Rights of Undertakings
- The Participation of Citizens in the Decision Making Process at a Community Level
COPENHAGEN 1978
Topics:
- Equal Treatment of Public and Private Undertakings
- Fundamental Safeguards in the Administrative Procedure
Patron:
H.M. the Queen Margrethe
LONDON 1980
Topics:
- The Different National Techniques for the Legal Protection against Violations of Community Law
- by National Authorities
- by Individuals
- Investor Protection by Controlling Stock Markets, through Legislation on the Accountancy of Companies and by Other Means
- The Possibilities of Conflict between the Community Institutions in their Application of Community Law
Patron:
H.M. the Queen Elizabeth
DUBLIN 1982
Topics:
- Consumer Protection
- The Elimination of Non-Tariff Barriers (with Particular Reference to Industrial Property Law and Copyrights)
- The Scope and Nature of the Powers of the European Communities in the Domain of External Relations
Patron:
President of Ireland Patrick Hilary
THE HAGUE 1984
Topics:
- Europe and the Media
- The Principle of Equal Treatment in Economic Law
PARIS 1986
Topics:
- General Principles Common to the Laws of the Member States as a Source of Community Law. Interaction between Community Law and National Law
- Community Aids, National Aids and Antidumping Measures
- The Freedom to Provide Services and the Right of Establishment, in Particular as Regards Insurance Companies and Banks
THESSALONICA 1988
Topics:
- Legal Aspects of Community Action in the Domain of Culture
- The Effects of Community Law on National Labour Laws
- Community Law and Civil Aviation
MADRID 1990
Topics:
- Application, in the Member States, of Directives to the Public Sectors
- Fiscal Harmonisation: the Challenge of 1993
- The Control of Concentrations of Undertakings
Patron:
King Juan Carlos I
LISBON 1992
Topics:
- The Provision of Financial Services within the EEC and to Third Countries
- The Sanctions for Infringing Community Law
- New Aspects of the Free Movement of Persons: towards a European Citizenship
Patron:
President of the Republic Mário Soares
ROME 1994
Topics:
- The Principle of Subsidiarity
- Competition Law Implications of Deregulation and Privatisation
- Social policy in the legal order of the EU and the EEA
Patron:
President of the Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
BERLIN 1996
Topics:
- National Constitutional Law vis-a-vis European Integration
- Energy and Environmental Protection in a European Perspective
- Procedures and Sanctions in Economic Administrative Law
Patron:
President of the Federal Republic of Germany Roman Herzog
STOCKHOLM 1998
Topics:
- Community Directives: Effects, Efficiency, Justiciability
- National Application of Community Competition Law
- The Citizen, the Administration and Community Law
Patron:
Princess Lillian
HELSINKI 2000
Topics:
- The Duties of Co-operation of National Authorities and Courts and the Community Institutions under art. 10 (art. 5) of the Treaty of Rome
- Community Law (including Competition Rules) Affecting Networks (Telecom, Energy and Information Technology)
- Legal Consequences of the Single Currency
Patron:
President Tarja Halonen
LONDON 2002
Topics:
- European Law and National Constitutions
- Financial Services in the Era of the Euro and E-commence: Does Home Control Work?
- Cross Border Mergers in Company Law and Competition Law: Removing the Final Barriers
Patron:
H.M. the Queen Elizabeth
DUBLIN 2004
Topics:
- Criminal Law in the European Union: a Giant Leap or Small Step?
- European Union Competition Law and Policy: the Reform of Competition Law Enforcement – will it work?
- European Union and Member State Migration and Asylum Law
Patron:
President Mary McAleese
LIMASSOL 2006
Topics:
- Direct Tax Rules and the EU Fundamental Freedoms: Origin and Scope of the Problem
- State Aid: the Effective Application of EU State Aid Procedures: From a Plan to Grant Aid to the Recovery of Illegal Aid – the Role of National Law and Practice
- External relations of the EU and its Member States: competence, mixed agreements, international liability and effects of international law.
Patron:
President of the Republic H.E. Tassos Pappadopoulos
LINZ 2008
Topics:
- Preparing the European Union for the Future?-Necessary Revisions of Primary Law after the non-ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
- The Modernisation of the European Competition Law
- The new Services Directive of the European Union –Hopes and Expectations from the Angle of a (Further) Completion of the Internal Market
Patron:
President Heinz Fischer
MADRID 2010
Topics:
- Public Capital and Private Capital in the European Union
- The Role of National Parliaments within the European Union
- The Judicial Application of EC Competition Rules
Patron:
Crown prince Felipe de Borbón
Website:
TALLINN 2012
Topics:
- Protection of Fundamental Rights Post-Lisbon: The Interaction between the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and National Constitutions
- The Interface between EU Energy, Environmental and Competition Law
- Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Including Information Society Issues
Patron:
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Website:
Copenhagen 2014
Topics:
- The Economic and Monetary Union: Constitutional and Institutional Aspects of the Economic Governance within the EU
- Union Citizenship: Development, Impact and Challenges
- Public Procurement Law: Limitations, Opportunities and Paradoxes
- In the Era of Legal Pluralism: The Relationship between the EU, National and International Courts, and the Interplay of the Multiple Sources of Law
Patron:
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark