EU: the Regulation on the law applicable to the contractual obligations shall apply to employment contracts concluded as from 17 December 2009

Planet Labor, November 25, 2009, No. 091075 – www.planetlabor.com
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to the contractual relations will concern the contracts concluded “from 17 December 2009” and not after this date, as it was mentioned in the initial Regulation. Little subtlety enabling us to republish the comments made on this document at the time of its first publication. (Ref. 091075)


Published in the European Journal of the European Communities on July 4, regulation 593/2008 integrates into Community Law the Rome I convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations, including th

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