peer reviewed / Shapes are in principle eligible for trade mark protection. However, in light of Article 7(1)(e)(ii) CTMR as interpreted by the European Court of Justice in Philips v Remington, this is not the case for shapes that are essentially functional. The same issue now lies before the ECJ once again in Lego v OHIM – MEGA Brands.
peer reviewed / The Roma are one of the most recognisable, peculiar and vivid ethnic minorities in the Republic of Croatia. At the same time, they are also the most stigmatised and marginalised Croatian minority, whereas their marginalisation is multilayered and complex, affecting their civil, cultural, economic, social and political rights. The Ro...
peer reviewed / The Italian Province of South Tyrol is often presented as a successful model of the legal regulation of interethnic relations between the majority and minority population in ethnically heterogeneous regions in Europe. South Tyrol has been a place of coexistence of three ethnic groups for centuries, viz. the Italian, the Ladin, and t...
peer reviewed / Based on Article 1024 of the Maritime Code of the Republic of Croatia (1994), and in accordance with Article 55 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982), the Croatian Parliament has adopted the Decision on the Extension of the Jurisdiction of the Republic of Croatia in the Adriatic Sea at its session of October ...
peer reviewed / The EC courts are regularly asked to rule on complex scientific and technical matters, as illustrated by cases concerning the foot and mouth crisis or conglomerate effects in merger control. In order to apprehend these technical issues, the EC courts may, like any other court, rely on experts who are appointed either by the courts t...
peer reviewed / The position of the Romany community in the Republic of Croatia greatly correlates to its usual perception and status in other European countries. The prevalent characteristic of this status is the marginalisation of the Roma (of economic, cultural, political, social and spatial nature), based on poor education, non-inclusion in for...
peer reviewed / The example of South-Eastern Europe shows that women and female children are the most vulnerable parts of societies affected by wars and post-war periods mostly because of their physical particularities, traditional family roles and positions, overall poor economic situation (especially high unemployment rate that leads to trans-bor...
peer reviewed / After the collapse of the Former Yugoslavia in 1991, the Republic of Croatia has inherited a few unsolved border disputes with former neighbouring federal republics and now independent states, the most complex of which is the dispute about the land and sea border with the Republic of Slovenia in the Piran Bay area. Although the rele...
peer reviewed / Trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation as a means of sexual enslavement is one of the most frequent and acutest forms of organised crime on the territory of the six republics of the former Yugoslavia. Geopolitically, this area is part of South-Eastern Europe, which belongs to the main sources of trafficking in w...
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