The European Union's (EU) mission has been and continues to be the establishment of a single, internal market for financial services comprising the entire territory of its fifteen Member States. Achieving a single market was historically dependent on provision of market access and development of...

The European Commission has recently released a Proposal for a Regulation on market abuse, to increase investor confidence and market integrity in European capital markets law. One of its most innovative elements involves allowing Member States to provide financial incentives to whistleblowers...

The European Union has had a uniform legal framework to transparency of major holdings and financial instruments since 2004. These provisions are to be reformed. In October 2011, the European Commission presented a proposal for a Directive to amend the Transparency Directive. This paper analyses...

This paper aims to present some preliminary ideas about the potential benefits and costs arising from the process of European Contract Law harmonization for the functioning of the existing national Contract Laws, and in the end, for the welfare of European societies. Some of those benefits and...

With the emergence of more and more synthetic substances since the 1960's, and broader use occurring from the 1980's onwards, there has been an increasing commodification of the market in new psychoactive substances (NPS). The European Union took an active stance as regards the regulation of...

The issue of regulating public procurement comes as an integral part of the transition process that Serbia is trying to bring to a conclusion, and that should result in introduction of transparency and an increase in the level of competition in this type of procurement. Although Serbian...