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Civil procedure involving the foreign element in reference to the European Union
Matoulková, Veronika ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Růžička, Květoslav (referee)
101 RESUME Before the Czech Republic's accession to the European Union on May 1, 2004, the Czech procedural law, involving the foreign element comprised of national law (mainly the Act No. 97/1963 Coll., on private and procedural international law) and international agreements that had been previously ratified by Parliament and therefore binding on the Czech Republic. After the accession, the European law became a part of the Czech legal order and it introduced a number of legal rules that changed the international procedural law in the Czech Republic. The motive for European integration, along with political and economic cooperation, was the desire to make one homogenous Europe, where all factors of production (goods, workers, services and capital) could move freely. The common market was created in order to help individuals and companies to realize economic growth and compete with world standards. For the purpose of regulating the internal market, the EC Treaty imposed on the European institutions the powers to make secondary legislation. On the basis of that, the European Council adopted a number of regulations regarding European judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters, which unified the international civil procedural rules in the member states. Today, it is common for European citizens and...
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