European Law and Dutch Civil Procedure Law

It is common knowledge that European legislation is relevant for civil procedure law. In this respect, Article 6 ECHR is of great importance for civil procedures. In recent years many European rules have been formulated on certain international aspects of civil procedure law, such as the European Enforcement Order for uncontested claims. There is also a third source of European influence on national civil procedure law, however, European law that mainly focuses on substantive law. To achieve the goals that ‘Europe’ is aiming for, for example with unfair contract terms and consumer sales, several instruments of a procedural nature are used. This third source of European influence on national civil procedure law is considerably less well known than the other two sources of European influence on national civil procedure law and will be the topic of my presentation.

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