ECJ: Melli Bank and US-Iran-sanctions
Towers of the Palace of the Court (pixabay curia-g25d368ccd_1920)In a judgment dated December 21, 2021 (Case C-124/20), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for the first time dealt with the effects of the European Blocking Statute. The plaintiff was Melli, an Iranian...
Newly published: International Trade and Logistics Law (Textbook)
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Our new textbook has just been published by Springer Gabler. Together with my colleague Yves Zimmermann LL.M. MBA, doctoral student at Andrássy University Budapest, we examine legal topics of international trade with a focus on transport...
Recast European Dual-Use Regulation
The Council of the European Union and the European Parliament agreed on a new version of the Dual-Use Regulation on November 9, 2020. This will replace the previous Dual-Use Regulation No. 428/2009. The recast is expected in mid-2021, once the European Parliament has...
Investment Control: Screening Regulation (EU) 2019/452
On March 19, 2019, the European Union adopted a regulation establishing a framework for the screening of foreign direct investment in the Union, Screening Regulation (EU) 2019/452. The purpose of the regulation is to establish a comprehensive framework for the...
Export violation: 7 years‘ imprisonment for managing director
On January 9, 2020, the State Protection Senate at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court sentenced a managing director to 7 years in prison for an export violation (Ref.: 8 St 3/19). The managing director had violated the Dual-Use Regulation and the Russia embargo by...
Prof. Dr. Schindler: The prohibition error in export
In its latest issue, the Zeitschrift für Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht (IWRZ - Journal of International Business Law) published an article by Prof. Dr. Schindler on the prohibition error in export (IWRZ 2017, p. 212 et seq.). In it, he deals with the criminal...
