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EC Signs Hague Choice of Court Convention

By Martin George

On 1st April 2009, the Czech Minister for Justice signed the Convention on behalf of the European Community (see the proposal to do so here). Negotiations on the Convention at the Hague were carried out ostensibly under shared competence between the EC and the Member States, but in the wake of Opinion 1/03, of course, the Community has exclusive competence to ratify the Convention. In other words, it does not need to be signed by the Member States (i.e. we’re stuck with it, whether we like it or not.) Denmark, however, will not be bound.

You will remember that Mexico and the USA have already signed the Hague Choice of Court Convention, and with the EC joining that exclusive club only one more ratification is needed for the entry into force of the Convention. We’re taking bets on who that lucky State will be - offer up your wily guesses in the comments.

(Many thanks to everyone who emailed/commented to let us know; much appreciated.)

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Full post as published by Conflict of Laws on April 05, 2009 (boomark / email).