Civil and commercial law, private international law: approximation of the procedures. Green papers

The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Giuseppe GARGANI (EPP-ED, Italy) on approximating civil procedural law in the EU. (Please see the summary of 27/01/04.) Parliament also made the following points: - when the parties choose the law of a non-member country, mandatory Community law rules must be enforced if all the elements of a contract, or the particularly significant elements, are situated on Union territory; - application of the international conventions to which a Member State is or will be party should not be affected; - when specifying which law should apply to the effects of assignment of a claim, reference should be made to the law of the place where the assignor is domiciled. �