Traduction de «Loi générale de prescription » (Français → Anglais) :

the ability to promulgate laws which permit effective jurisdiction and control in administrative, technical and social matters over ships flying its flag and, in particular, provide the legal basis for general requirements for registries, the inspection of ships, safety and pollution-prevention laws applying to such ships and the making of associated regulations;

the ability to promulgate laws which permit effective jurisdiction and control in administrative, technical and social matters over ships flying its flag and, in particular, provide the legal basis for general requirements for registries, the inspection of ships, safety and pollution-prevention laws applying to such ships and the making of associated regulations;

2. Calls on the Commission to draw up a report on limitation periods following the evaluation of the study, dealing in particular with possible options ranging from a limited harmonisation of limitation periods to the use of a conflict-of-laws rule;

- The second proposal is that there should be a five-year time-bar on the recovery of sums owed to the Community. This limit could be extended in cases where active steps are being taken to secure recovery. As things stand, there is no general time-limit of a ‘Community’ nature (such a limit exists in certain sectoral regulations e.g. those concerning the Staff Regulations: 5 years, the regulation on the protection of the communities’ financial interests: 4 years). However, there is interference with the national legislation, where the contract refers to national law or where the judge is a national one applying his own law as the law of ...[+++] procedure. This could give rise to total chaos in those Member States where institutions’ right to collect debts is time-barred (after 3 or 10 years), or where, quite simply, no information is given on whether the deadline has lapsed until the case comes before the judge. Nor is it clear whether after the period has elapsed it is possible to accept compensation or spontaneous payment by the debtor. In brief, this proposal would introduce legal certainty for both the institutions and the debtors.

Moreover, if the law applicable to the succession is French national law, which uses the system of saisine (whereby heirs assume that status automatically as soon as the succession is opened, and can take possession of the property), but part of the estate is situated in Italy, it will be necessary to comply with the provisions of Italian law, according to which, in contrast to French law, heirs only assume that status on acceptance of inheritance.

(2) Any internal tax or other internal charge, or any law, regulation or requirement of the kind referred to in paragraph 2 which applies to an imported product and to the like domestic product and is collected or enforced in the case of the imported product at the time or point of importation, is nevertheless to be regarded as an internal tax or other internal charge, or a law, regulation or requirement of the kind referred to in paragraph 2, and is accordingly subject to the provisions of this Article.