Recent developments regarding the Lisbon Treaty and the Rome I Regulation may not seem ground-breaking, but practitioners who advise on international contracts should familiarise themselves with the changes, says Paul Stanley
A decision of the Czech Constitutional Court on 3 November 2009 cleared the way, finally, for the Lisbon Treaty to enter into force. As a result, it comes into force on 1 December 2009, almost a year later than originally hoped. In the UK, the amendment takes effect by the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008.
The changes made by the Lisbon Treaty are principally of interest to constitutional lawyers; they include, in particular, an overhaul of the decision-making procedures of the union, especially in the council, but with revision of decision-making processes generally. The most public sign of this has been the publicity associated with the appointment of a ‘president of the European Council’ and a ‘high representative for foreign affairs and security policy’.
From the point of view of daily life in practice, the most immediate effect of the Lisbon Treaty is that it creates a new round of renaming and renumbering. What used to be the ‘Treaty Establishing the E...
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