La procédure en manquement est l’instrument principal de la Commission pour assurer que le droit communautaire est correctement mis en oeuvre au niveau national. La majorité des affaires, traitées dans le cadre de ce recours, a son origine dans les plaintes provenant de personnes physiques ou morale. Cependant, la Commission conserve un droit de re...
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...
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...