COMMON DEFINITIONS
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLA TOP European Commission official has called for the creation of a common European Union (EU) definition of the key legal concepts of "contract" or "damage", as part of a 'Common Frame of Reference' for EU legal systems. Robert Madelin, permanent head of the Commission's directorate general for consumer affairs was speaking at a Brussels conference debating moves to create a common European judicial area, launched at the EU's Tampere summit in 1999. He said such common definitions would "play a key role in our goal of promoting consistency and ...
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