Übersetzung für "Shop closing-hours law " (Englisch → Deutsch) :

The two legislative acts, moreover, stand in a close complementary relationship: whereas Brussels I has laid down the rules governing the choice of court competent to hear litigation, but left the field open for what is termed forum shopping, that is to say the option for parties to choose a court in one country rather than another purely because the law applicable there seems more favourable, given the substance of the case, the Rome Convention, by unifying the Member States’ rules on conflict of laws (but only as regards contractual ...[+++] obligations), provides the same solution where the substance of cases is concerned, leaving aside the question of the national court before which proceedings should be brought.

Consequently, the fact that Austria did not ban a demonstration which closed that motorway for almost 30 hours is a restriction of intra-Community trade in goods within the Union and is, in principle, incompatible with Community law unless there is an objective justification for that restriction.

Unfortunately, this is not the case and currently, by merging the start of the application of the European directive and the application of the 35-hour law, which is purely French, but also by changing the working time criteria, such as the 1 700 objects per hour to be handled per workstation as opposed to 1 400, as previously, in our rural areas we can observe either a reduction in public opening hours or a threat that some post offices will be closed. This is already an intolerable withdrawal of the public service.

In reality, this is prevented by the fact that European law takes precedence over national law, and I anticipate that the current proposal will create fair competition and equal competition conditions. It will also ensure legal certainty for all enterprises and the uniform application of competition policy, and will simplify procedures in line with the one-stop-shop principle. It will coordinate the activities of the national – in my view, independent – competition authorities and enable the national authorities and courts to cooperate closely with the Commission. It will establish a clear division of responsibilities between the national authorities and courts in the application of European competition and cartel law, and ensure that the C ...[+++]ommission continues to be the guardian of the treaties and thus has more time to devote to real problems, i.e. controlling mergers and cartels.

Since the last Ministerial, January 1993, the regulations on closing hours and compulsory closing dates have been relaxed for large scale retail stores (law adopted on May 1st, 1994).