De parlementaire geschiedenis die in deze bundel is opgenomen, heeft in het bijzonder betrekking op de consumentenkoop (al dan niet op afstand) en elektronisch contracteren. Het gaat om regels in het BW die recent (in de periode 2001-2004) in werking zijn getreden. De nieuwe regels betreffen implementatiewetgeving van Europese richtlijnen.

De parlementaire geschiedenis, alsmede de daaraan ten grondslag liggende Europese richtlijnen, van de volgende bepalingen van het BW zijn opgenomen:

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Sustainable development has become a central objective in national and international policy of development and the environment. Increasingly it also marks international and national law. In this book scholars in environmental law treat legal theories on sustainable development and how it may be operationalized, and topics related to its development in international law, European law, international trade and investment law, and within the climate regime.

The book marks the 20th anniversary of ...

As fish stocks continue to decline worldwide, coastal states seem to have largely failed in managing fisheries in their EEZs effectively. This study examines the international legal principles for effective EEZ fisheries management, and undertakes to assess their domestic implementation in a comparative perspective.The 1982 UNCLOS as well as general international law provide a useful range of norms for sustainable EEZ fisheries management, if carefully interpreted. These include the coastal s...

This volume addresses the future of political control and accountability in a European and comparative perspective. It is based on the contributions to an international conference hosted by the Montesquieu Institute (Centre of European Parliamentary History and Constitutional Development) at Maastricht in March 2008. The conference concluded a larger research project that was devoted to identifying features of domestic constitutional law that could help develop a system of effective accountab...

Administrative Law has been the object of thorough reforms in the various European jurisdictions. This process of transformation has considerable impacts on administrative legal scholarship in the respective countries. Profound changes in administrative activity have established new forms of administrative institutions which raise issues of legitimacy. Besides the consensus that administrative law, administrative activities and administrative institutions have to be legitimate, the concept of...

Direct effect, consistent interpretation and state liability are instruments developed by the CJEU for national courts to remedy conflicts between national and EU law (and may also be used in some jurisdictions to resolve national law and international law). This book will look at the `remedial capacity of these doctrines/tools from the perspective of the national court applying them. In short: what are their strengths, weaknesses, unexplored opportunities at grassroot level, and what can we ...

The book offers a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the issue of property rights protection in Europe. This approach explores the tensions between the European and the national level. This is done by highlighting the different understanding of the constitutional role of property within different legal cultures and legal orders. The interaction and dialogue between national law and supranational human rights law in the area of property law is therefore at the centre of the work. Th...

This book addresses the conflict between climate change, other environmental concerns such as biodiversity, and international trade, focussing on the relationship between climate change mitigation and biodiversity protection in the bioenergy sector, taking into account the specific situation for imports from developing countries. The focal point is the sustainability criteria enacted by Directive 2009/28/EC (the so-called Renewable Energy Directive - RED). The document is divided into 6 parts...

In de Wet op de ondernemingsraden (WOR) is de medezeggenschap van de in een onderneming werkzame personen geregeld. Daarbij spelen zaken als de instelling, samenstelling en verkiezing van de medezeggenschap, maar ook de werkwijze van de medezeggenschapsorganen en de faciliteiten en voorzieningen die de leden ervan hebben gekregen om hun taken naar behoren uit te voeren, het overleg dat met de ondernemer wordt gevoerd en de verschillende rechten die de medezeggenschapsorganen hebben zoals het ...

Zoekmachines en andere zoeksystemen zijn van groot belang voor een goede werking van internet. Toch is vaak niet duidelijk wat zoeksystemen mogen doen met informatie die vrij beschikbaar is via internet. Is bijvoorbeeld het plaatsen van hyperlinks naar informatie door zoeksystemen toegestaan? En voor welke vormen van interne verwerking in een zoeksysteem is vooraf toestemming nodig? De vraag is of aanbieders van vrij beschikbare informatie meer duidelijkheid kunnen geven over het opvragen, ve...