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Rìdets beslutning af 28. maj 2001 om oprettelse af et europºisk retligt netvºrk pì det civil- og handelsretlige omrìde............................264
Council Decision 2001/470/EC of 28 May 2001 establishing a European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters...............260
FORORDSamling af EF-retsakter henhłrende under samarbejdet om civilretlige spłrgsmìl
P r ef a c e S e l e c t e d Community acts in the area of judicial cooperation in civil matters
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Siden 1976 professor i international ret og international privatret ved Mi-lanos Universitet, hvor han ogsì i mange ìr har undervist i EF-ret.
Fausto Pocar has been Professor of International Law and Private Interna-tional Law at the University of Milan since 1976, where he also taught European Community law for many years.
Des-uden docent ved Haags Akademi for International Ret i 1983 og ved det almene kursus i international privatret i 1993.
He lectured at the Hague Academy of International Law in 1983 and delivered the general course on private international law there in 1993.
Fra 1980 var han ved ‹ere lejligheder itali-ensk reprºsentant ved Haagerkonferencen for International Privatret, medreferent for det sºrlige udvalg vedrłrende udarbejdelse af et udkast til en verdensomspºndende konvention om retternes kompetence og om fuldbyrdelse af retsafgłrelser, og for łjeblikket er han formand for det sºrlige udvalg vedrłrende udarbejdelse af et udkast til konvention om underholdspligt.
He has represented Italy at the Hague Conference on Private International Law on various occasions since 1980: he was co-rap-porteur of the Special Commission preparing a draft worldwide conven-tion on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments and is currently Chairman of the Special Commission preparing a draft convention on maintenance obligations.
Han er desuden medlem af Institut de droit interna-tional og af en rºkke italienske og internationale videnskabelige og fag-lige sammenslutninger, bl.a. Groupe europïen de droit privï international, som han var formand for fra 1994-1997.
He is a member of the Institut de droit interna-tional and of numerous learned societies and professional associations, both Italian and foreign, including the European Group for Private Inter-national Law, which he chaired from 1994 to 1997.
Han har o.entliggjort talrige (over hundrede) publikationer om internatio-nal privatret og EU-ret, herunder en af de fłrste italienske universitetslºre-błger i EF-ret (nu i niende udgave) og en samling af bemºrkninger til EF- og EU-traktaterne samt diverse publikationer om EF-arbejdsret, internatio-nal handelsret og international familieret og om international civilprocesret med sºrligt henblik pì Bruxelles- og Lugano-konventionerne.
Fausto Pocar is the author of over 100 publications on private interna-tional law and European law, including one of the «rst university text-books published in Italy on European Community law (now in its ninth edition), a commentary on the Treaty establishing the European Commu-nity and the Treaty on European Union, and various articles on Commu-nity employment law, private international commercial and family law and international law on civil procedure, with particular reference to the Brussels and Lugano Conventions.
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Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (`Brussels I Regulation'). See also the corrigenda set out at the end of the Act.
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