International Scientific Conference

Simplification of Debt Collection 
in the EU

23rd and 24th of September 2010, Maribor, Slovenia

This Conference was organized under the project “Simplification of Debt Collection in the EU” with support by the EU under the Specific Programme Civil Justice of the European Commission. The project was based on a cooperation between researchers of the Universities of Maribor (Slovenia), Graz (Austria) and Zagreb (Croatia) in collaboration with Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice and CEPRIS.

It was dealing with the comparative study, analysis and evaluation of the legal norms of the EU Member States in the field of abolition of exequatur in cross-border enforcement within the EU (i.e. Regulation (EC) No 1896/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 creating a European order for payment procedure and Regulation (EC) No 861/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 establishing a European Small Claims Procedure). The aim of the project was to scrutinise their implementation in 13 EU Member States and in how far the Member states have taken advantage of the opportunity to use e-justice tools (e.g. taking of evidences through video conference; existence of an IT system which should make it possible to submit European payment order applications and objections electronically).

Project “Simplification of Debt Collection in the EU” constitutes a follow-up of the project “European Enforcement Order – Simplification of the International Enforcement and the Assurance of the Guaranties of Legal Protection” which was carried out by the Universities of Maribor, Graz and Bayreuth and co-financed by the European Commission within the Framework Programme for Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters in the year 2006.

Languages: Slovenian, German, English (simultaneous interpretation)

Place: University of Maribor, Slomškov trg 15, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia, Aula Magna

Conference organisers: Prof. Dr. Vesna Rijavec (Maribor) and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jelinek (Graz).

Article about the Conference, published in Pravna praksa, No. 39/2010

JLS/2009/JCIV/AG/003-30-CE 
This Project is financially supported by the European Commission within the Framework programme for judicial cooperation in civil matters of the European Commission