Jaanika Erne

3:25, 20 March 2010

I did recently translate the decision of the ECtHR as to the admissibility of application No. 14160/08 by Sergey Dolinskiy against Estonia, into the Estonian language. This is about a refused request for a residence permit and the subsequent detainment in the Harku deportation centre. The ECtHR refers to another decision in application No. 10664/05 [...]

1:08, 6 March 2010

To create some more order, here are some links to parliaments and their relations in Europe:
Interparliamentary websites:
COSAC
ECPRD - The European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation
Council of Europe
IPU: Inter-Parliamentary Union
ASGP: Association of Secretaries General of Parliaments
EP Relations with National Parliaments
 
Exchanging information among parliaments:
IPEX – Interparliamentary EU Information Exchange http://www.ipex.eu/ipex/cms/home;jsessionid=86722EDF4D8F90ED0FF1CB8769797C0D
Database http://www.ipex.eu/ipex/cms/home/Documents;jsessionid=8E75374CDA35008C8558202032D0FCC3
Comments of the European Commission on opinions from national parliaments http://www.ipex.eu/ipex/cms/home/pid/4;jsessionid=86722EDF4D8F90ED0FF1CB8769797C0D

0:01, 1 March 2010

To create some order, here is a list of EU legislative databases:
EUR-Lex: The portal to European Union law
OEIL: The Legislative Observatory (European Parliament)
PreLex: Monitoring of the decision-making process (European Commission)
N-Lex: A common getaway to national law
Committee of Regions: Subsidiarity Monitoring Network
TOAD: Committee of Regions Database of EU Documents
Council Register
Information sources and contacts: Databases in alphabetical order
By Subject – http://europa.eu/documentation/order-publications/databases-subject/index_en.htm
In alphabetical order – [...]

0:05, 15 February 2010

I am not fully competent to estimate, whether Estonia could have benefited by participation in the particular programme introduced followingly, but it is obvious that the research involving categories of economics (included dissertations on EU competition law, two of which  I have supervised in the University of Tartu that mostly have reflected the facts, case-law, and the Estonian State [...]

2:29, 13 February 2010

I have revived the new semester’s kick off, and had time to think of the role of practitioners and academicians, in connection with my previous posting, and previously worded thoughts about participation of academicians in the events organized by EIPA, ERA, etc. that are primarily directed towards the practising lawyers.
On one hand – it is highly [...]

4:30, 4 February 2010

Thinking of the seminar on EU accession to European Convention on Human Rights that took place from 2 to 3 February 2010 in Madrid, and after a Caffee Latte at Vilde (the place exercises re-use policy towards serviettes – for the sake of rainforests?), on Tuesday evening, I started to translate the decision (of  5 January 2010) of [...]

23:18, 28 January 2010

Russia has (and also formally on 4th February 2010, see ITAR-TASS, and EU Declaration on the Ratification of Protocol 14) ratified Protocol No.14 to the European Convention on Human Rights. On 15th January 2010, the State Duma of the Russian Federation voted in favour of the ratification of Protocol No.14. On 27th January 2010, the upper [...]

1:30, 27 January 2010

The Academy of European Law is organizing a Conference from 22nd to 23rd March 2010: “The State of Play in Implementation of the Services Directive”.
The conference is supposedly providing an overview of:

the direct effect of some important key provisions;
how to set up the system of mutual assistance and administrative cooperation among member states, provided for [...]

0:30, 25 January 2010

In addition to the Jean Monnet Conference, taking place today in Madrid, where the Jean Monnet professors, chief executives, university rectors, experts and EU representatives participate; and the conference “Paths of Democracy of Europe”, taking place today at Casa de Cultura of Ponferrada, in which later event participates also the newly re-elected European Ombudsman Nikiforos Diamandouros; [...]

6:18, 23 January 2010

The Call for Papers to the 4th ESIL Biennial Conference “International Law 1989 – 2010: A Performance Appraisal” that will be held in Cambridge, England, on 2 – 4 September 2010 was closed at midnight.
I presented an abstract to be considered under the Agora 7: Human Rights: “Understanding Human Rights and European Values”. This is [...]