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
    1. by National Authorities
    2. 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:

www.fide2010.eu

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:

www.fide2012.eu

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