Zlatan Meskic

• Prof.Dr. (PhD University of Vienna)
• Professor (Full) at Prince Sultan University

This paper examines the implications of Saudi Arabia’s accession to the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) in August 2023. Saudi Arabia joined only Parts I and II, postponing a decision on Part III pending further analysis of its compatibility with Sharia law. Two months earlier, Saudi Arabia enacted the Civil Tra...

The Western Balkan States have enormous potential to further develop arbitration as the most attractive method of alternative dispute resolution. The courts in this region are overburdened. The litigation in commercial cases takes too long. Arbitration should benefit from the lack of efficiency in litigation, but it does not. This paper aims to det...

This qualitative study explores the evolution and implications of limiting contractual liability in Saudi Arabia, focusing on the interplay between Sharia principles, international conventions, and domestic legal reforms. Through a comprehensive analysis of primary and secondary sources, including the new Civil Transactions Law 2023 and relevant le...

Background. The arbitrability of administrative contracts contributes to sustainable dispute resolution within the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals 16 (SDG 16). However, different regulation of administrative contracts in comparative law affects the arbitrability of the disputes arising out of them. The question arises – is protection...

Bosnia and Herzegovina has been one of the first European states to introduce a generous consumer collective redress mechanism. It was established under the influence of the EU, the United States and former Yugoslav law. The legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina provides an excellent opportunity to examine to which extent the collective redress rem...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development builds upon the Millennium Development Goals while at the same time reaffirming the conclusions of the leading instruments in the field of human rights and international law. The 17 integrated and indivisible sustainable development goals (SDGs) require innovation through digitalization and legal activiti...

This article deals with the protection of consumers when they enter e-commerce transactions with foreign companies. Most states reacted to the growing importance of e-commerce by enacting data protection and consumer protection legislation and by requiring registration of e-businesses. Companies have found a way to circumvent the consumer legislati...

This article deals with the protection of consumers when they enter e-commerce transactions with foreign companies. Most states reacted to the growing importance of e-commerce by enacting data protection and consumer protection legislation and by requiring registration of e-businesses. Companies have found a way to circumvent the consumer legislati...

The question of a general part for EU Private International Law has attracted research and debate among PIL scholars long before the EU started to codify this legal field after the Amsterdam Treaty. However, the EU has made no attempt to make use of the existing research to adopt a comprehensive regulation of the general part of EU PIL and has adop...

Over the last four decades, producers of durable goods recognized the role of services as a tool to increase their competitiveness and achieve long-term growth. Consequently, the producers began to integrate services into their products to satisfy their customers’ needs, a process known as servitization. Since its introduction in the late 1980s, se...

The second volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) focuses on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), which was signed 40 years ago. The contributions analyse a broad range of aspects and reflect the latest developments; those in the permanent sections on European Law an...

The Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina had to determine the applicable law to the arbitration clause contained in general conditions of sale on seller’s website. The sales agreement was concluded orally and the reference to the website with general conditions of sale was made on a pro forma invoice paid by the buyer. The arbi...

The process of accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the EU implies the introduction of EU standards on Private International Law into its internal legislation. This paper includes considerations related to the ways of implementation of the reform of private international law, having in mind the complex constitutional structure of Bosnia and Herze...

The first issue of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) focuses on international commercial and investment arbitration as one of the fastest developing fields of law in Southeast Europe. Covering a range of topics, the contributions analyze transparency and confidentiality in international commercial and investment arbitrat...

FIDIC Forms of Contract in recent years are often used for regulation of rights and obligations of the investors and the contractors on the construction projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in particular in construction of the highways, railways and dams. Majority of the projects is finalized without significant disputes between the parties. However...

European Private International Law and Member State Treaties with Third States - edited by Anatol Dutta July 2019

The freedom of services by correspondence should be one of the most important market freedoms in the EU legislative politics and the CJEU jurisprudence. The announcement of the establishment of a fifth market freedom on data flow is directly addressed by the freedom of services by correspondence. The growing importance of the freedom of services in...

Private International Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina - overview Conflicts of Laws in Bosnia and Herzegovina Jurisdiction in Bosnia and Herzegovina Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments

With the ratification of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) has taken over the obligation to harmonise its legal system with the EU legal order. Precisely in the area of collective redress, the EU has recently adopted a whole range of measures (Directives and Recommendations). The analysis and comparison...

The book gives an in depth analysis of implementation of EU Directives on consumer protection into six countries of South East Europe. In the Part 1, the team presents an overview of the legislative techniques of each participating state which has been prepared by the respective national reporter. The Part 2 demonstrates the transposition of the in...

Bosnien und Herzegowina gliedert sich in zwei Entitäten, die Föderation von Bosnien und Herzegowina und Republika Srpska, sowie in ein Distrikt Brčko, mit fast umfassender Zuständigkeit für das Privatrecht. Somit gibt es neben einigen wenigen privatrechtlichen Gesetzen auf gesamtstaatlicher Ebene, drei privatrechtliche Teilrechtsordnungen in Bosnie...

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU from Solange I to Digital Rights Ireland Protection of personal data as a fundamental right EU Charter and ECHR CJEU as a human rights court

Bosna i Hercegovina je jedna od tri države u Evropi koje iz ugla međunarodnog privatnog prava imaju složeni pravni poredak. Naime, kako entiteti tako i distrikt imaju svoje građanskopravno zakonodavstvo. Bez izmjena Ustava BiH teško da će se ovakva situacija promijeniti, a izmjene Ustava su u skorije vrijeme još manje vjerovatne. Utoliko je vrijeme...

Full article: http://www.cyelp.com/index.php/cyelp/article/view/275/171 Through the judgments Digital Rights Ireland and Tele2 Sverige the CJEU emphasized the power of the CFR (in particular art. 7, 8, 52) through the fundamental right of data protection and general principles of law such as the principle of proportionality and legal certainty. Ar...

Iako je rad na monografiji “Povelja Evropske unije o osnovnim pravima” počeo odmah po objavljivanju udžbenika “Pravo Evropske unije I”, trebalo je punih pet godina da taj rad okončamo. To je dijelom povezano s činjenicom da se na afirmaciju Povelje o osnovnim pravima EU u praksi Suda EU trebalo još čekati i još uvijek se očekuju presude o mnogim ot...

Through the judgments Digital Rights Ireland and Tele2 Sverige, the CJEU emphasised the power of the CFR (in particular arts 7, 8, 52) through the fundamental right of data protection and general principles of law such as the principle of proportionality and legal certainty. Article 52 CFR represents the essence of justification. In the spirit of a...

The national legislators of the (potential) candidate countries for the EU membership from the South East Europe decided to harmonize their Private International Law Codes with the EU law. The harmonization with the Private International Law of the EU is questionable, when it refers to the EU regulations based on the principle of mutual trust betwe...

http://privrednastampa.ba/product/medunarodno-privatno-pravo-i/ Materija je predstavljena prema redoslijedu koraka koje treba slijediti prilikom utvrđivanja mjerodavnog prava u slučajevima s elementom inostranosti. Utoliko knjiga nastoji da prati, kako studente tako i praktičare, na njihovom putu ka odabiru mjerodavnog prava. Naučnici će pronaći dr...

Usually at this place of the conference proceedings, some final remarks and conclusions of on the three main topics of the conference should be presented. However, some of the biggest names of PIL presented their paper at the conference, at the Faculty of Law in Zenica, and submitted their papers with conclusions in these conference proceedings. Th...

The journal “Annals of the Faculty of Law of the University of Zenica” provides publishing of research papers in social sciences. Working languages of research papers are Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, English, French and German. Additionaly, editorial board can decide to accept research paper that has been written in foreign language besides aforemen...

The existence and application of „overriding mandatory rules“ in the domestic legal system cannot be denied. On the contrary, domestic institutions would have the tendency to apply the national rules on competition or the protection of cultural goods, without relying on the principles or provisions of private international law. Consequently, a very...

Provision on the burden of proof is the central provision of the anti-discrimination regulation. The goal of the provision is to guarantee an effective remedy by facilitating the proof of individual elements of the discrimination. By following that goal it is necessary to deviate from the common provision in civil proceedings according to which the...

Pitanje prorogacije nadležnosti u potrošačkim ugovorima nalazi se na razmeđu procesnog i materijalnog prava, autonomije volje i zaštite slabije ugovorne strane, te evropskog i nacionalnog prava. Iz vida prava EU, ova problematika leži na raskrsnici dva temeljna akta građanskog prava EU, a to su Direktiva 93/13/EEZ o nepoštenim odredbama u potrošačk...

The work in this book raises various crucial questions yet to be solved, such as the incorporation of international legal sources into the national legal system, the question of their direct effect, the position of international agreements within the national hierarchy of laws, which level of authority is competent for adopting legislative measures...

The application of international law in national legal systems is a well-established question in legal literature. Both the globalisation and internationalisation of legal systems have given rise to questions that need to be answered legally, by laws and jurisprudence, and in legal literature. The question of the enforcement of inter- or supranatio...

Improvement of the protection of the weaker parties was one of the goals set for the recast of the Brussels I Regulation on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters. Now the EU consumer may bring proceedings in the courts of the Member State of its domicile, regardless whether the trader has its...

A codification of European Administrative Law in form of a legally binding instrument has not been initiated yet. The European Code on Good Administrative Behaviour as a non-binding proposal by the European Ombudsman partly fills this gap, by taking over some of the functions of a binding codification. The subjective right to good administration of...

Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (hereinafter: HC 1980) entered into force in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 6.3.1992 and it is applicable on its territory from 23.8.1993 as a successor state (after the notification on succession, acceptance and accession – Official Journal of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina 25/199...

The transformation from an unrelated to a harmonized triple protection of fundamental rights in the EU is normatively determined by the Lisbon Treaty. Most relevant are Art 6 TEU (Treaty on European Union) and Arts 51-54 ECFR (European Charter of Fundamental Rights). The normative triple protection approach causes questions of competition, collisio...

The EU legal sources do not contain any general provision on the horizontal effect of fundamental rights and the Court of Justice of the EU did not significantly contribute to the development of this institute in EU law. Individual provisions of the EU Charter of fundamental rights, the practise of the European Court of Human Rights which is due to...

Available at: http://www.seelawschool.org/en/images/seels-pdf/SEELS_Civil_Law_Forum_Tirana_2013 Rad i predavanje u glavnom autorstvu prof.dr.sc. Norbert Reicha u suradnji sa koautorima Dollani, Nada ; Krstić, Ivana ; Meškić, Zlatan ; Mišćenić, Emilia ; Reich, Norbert ; Spaić, Aneta ; Zdravdeva Neda daje prikaz rezultata studije u kontekstu rada GI...

The recast of the Brussels I Regulation on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters arouses interest in the region in terms of both aspects, harmonization of the national legislation with the PIL of EU and its application in the courts of the Member States on matters related to the SEE countries....

Nemačka fondacija za međunarodnu pravnu saradnju (IRZ) je podržala štampanje ove knjige, a gledišta sadržana u knjizi ne podrazumevaju nužno i stav IRZ-a.

The need for a general part of EU consumer contract law has been continuously increasing with the adoption of every new consumer directive for more than the last two decades. The Com-mission responded with the initiative for a horizontal directive in the Green Paper on the Review of the Consumer Acquis. The Commission suggested in its proposal that...

Zakon o zaštiti potrošača (ZZP) je do sada najvrijedniji rezultat usklađivanja privatnog prava BiH sa Pravom EU. U ZZP opširno su regulisana dva osnovna prava potrošača, pravo na informaciju i pravo na raskid ugovora bez ikakvog obrazloženja. Pri tome je informisanje potrošača o njegovim pravima, prije svih od strane trgovca u predugovornoj fazi, o...

Richtlinie 2011/83/EU über die Rechte der Verbraucher vom 25. Oktober 2011, ABl. EU 2011, L 304/64 Der Beitrag gibt eine erste Übersicht über die Richtlinie 2011/83/EU über die Rechte der Verbraucher. Das von der Richtlinie verfolgte Prinzip der Vollharmonsierung, wird nicht nur in den Mitgliedstaaten der EU sondern auch in der Region zu Reformen f...

1. Pravni izvori od značaja za analizu Prije implementacije Direktive 93/13 u pravni sistem Bosne i Hercegovine, opšti uslovi ugo-vora bili su regulisani jugoslovenskim Zakonom o obligacionim odnosima (ZOO) iz 1978 104 . godine. Članovi 142.-144. jugoslovenskog ZOO pružali su zaštitu za ugovornu starnu koja nije odredila ugo-vorne uslove, smatrajuć...

The state structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not specifically defined by the constitution or by any other legal act. Therefore the key elements of federalism, like the division of the responsibilities of the federal units and the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, their degree of autonomy and the rights to represent on the international scene, ar...

Sloboda kretanja robe, lica, usluga i kapitala širom BiH garantuje se u čl. I/4 Ustava BiH. Niti BiH niti entiteti ne smiju ometati pune tržišne slobode širom BiH. Ovim odredbama bio bi oduzet svaki praktični značaj, ako država ne bi imala ovlasti za stvaranje jedinstvenog tržišta u BiH. Stoga čl. I/4 implicira ovlasti države da s jedne strane zabr...

Na naslov "Slobodni izbor prava", nailazimo u oblastima u kojima sa aspekta domaćeg MPP-a to nije uobičajeno, na primer, u svim aktima EU koji regulišu pitanja mjerodavnog prava, od kojih su najvažniji doneseni u obliku uredbi ili (za sada) prijedloga uredbi. Može se s pravom govoriti o autonomiji volje kao opštem načelu Evropskog kolizionog prava....

Potrošačko pravo na raskid ugovora je najvažniji pravni instrument potrošača kojim se on oslobađa od svih obaveza iz ugovora bez ikakvog obrazloženja. Potrošačima se tako omogućava da naknadnom preradom svih informacija vezanih za ugovor nadoknade informacioni i iskustveni deficit, koji postoji u odnosu na poduzetnika kao druge ugovorne strane, unu...

Zaštita potrošača od nepravednih ugovornih odredbi – Usklađivanje obligacionog prava BiH sa Direktivom 93/13/EEZ SAŽETAK Zakonom o zaštiti potrošača (ZZP) obligaciono pravo BiH dobija novi pravni osnov za kontrolu pravednosti odredbi formularnih ugovora zaklju-čenih između potrošača i poduzetnika. Sveobuhvatna analiza ove kontrole podrazumijeva odg...

Introduction by Christa Jessel-Holst and Gale Galev: "(...) In the Part 1, the team presents an overview of the legislative techniques of each participating state which has been prepared by the respective national reporter. The Part 2 demonstrates the transposition of the individual directives in the six countries. Due to lack of space it has unfor...

Sa Akcionim planom za koherentno ugovorno pravo 2003. godine Komisija je učinila prvi korak u pravcu jedinstvenog Evropskog privatnog prava. Najznačajnija uloga u ovom akcionom planu data je provjeri postojećeg Evropskog potrošačkog prava. Modernizacija osam potrošačkih direktiva i u njima sadržanih klauzula minimalne harmonizacije treba da pruži p...

Sa Akcionim planom za koherentno ugovorno pravo 2003. godine Komisija je učinila prvi korak u pravcu jedinstvenog Evropskog privatnog prava. Najznačajnija uloga u ovom akcionom planu data je provjeri postojećeg Evropskog potrošačkog prava. Modernizacija osam potrošačkih direktiva i u njima sadržanih klauzula minimalne harmonizacije treba da pruži p...

Ključne riječi: Europska unija, Međunarodno privatno pravo, zaštita potrošača. 1 * �ad je �isan na bosansko�� jeziku kao izvorno�� jeziku autora. �ad je �isan na bosansko�� jeziku kao izvorno�� jeziku autora. 1. Uvod Koliziono-�ravna zaštita �otrošača EU zasniva se �rije svega na članu 5. �i��ske konvencije kao �rateće�� �ravu EU 2 , kojeg će od 17...