The writers also look forward to the harmonisation of laws across the EU, "so that we can see the stuff they get in Denmark".
However, article 129 excluded harmonisation of laws and regulations in member states and, therefore, could never provide a legal basis for the tobacco advertising ban.
For that reason, future meetings of intellectual property officials from the Amazon nations will focus on the "harmonisation of laws," Arteaga announced.
However, for this agreement to operate effectively, an urgent harmonisation of laws is required, including concerted and unequivocal measures broken down to Member State level.
It builds on and develops further earlier work, in particular The Emergence of a Transnational Legal Science in Europe, 19 OJLS 673 (1999); Evolutionary Perspectives and Projects on Harmonisation of Private Law in the EU, (S. Feiden, ed)., EUI Working Paper Law no.
This goes to the heart of wider debates about the harmonisation of European law – heck, why not go global even?
It is the wide degree of divergence between such policies that has made progress towards the substantive cross-border harmonisation of insolvency law so difficult.
The constitution provides for the harmonisation of criminal law and sentencing for certain serious crimes with cross-border implications, such as corruption and drug-trafficking.
These and other planned measures aim to extend the scope for harmonisation of criminal law in the different EU Member States, strengthen the federalist nature of the European Union, and advance and draw strength from the 'Reform Treatyy, which removes from states new areas of jurisdiction in legal and home affairs.
At the London European Council in 1981 the Foreign Ministers of Germany and Italy, Mr Genscher and Mr Colombo, put forward a proposal for a 'European Act' covering a range of subjects: political cooperation, culture, fundamental rights, harmonisation of the law outside the fields covered by the Community Treaties, and ways of dealing with violence, terrorism and crime.
