Law of corporate groups deals with legal issues arising from the economic unity of the corporate group as a whole and the separate legal personalities of its individual members. This leads to a conflict between the interests of a parent company and the interests of its subsidiary. By using a comparative method, I analyzed in this thesis the laws of Germany, France, Great Britain and the U.S. to see how these countries regulate corporate groups and how they deal with the problems associated with them. Generally, legal approaches to the regulation of corporate groups can be divided into two groups - the German model that creates a complex system of special rules regulating corporate groups, and a model that regulates only specific aspects of corporate groups and leaves the solution of all other problems to the general regulation of corporations and judicial decisions. In the German model, it is possible to prefer the interests of the whole group at the expenses of the interests of a subsidiary under certain conditions, whereas the majority of legal systems adhere to the duty of loyalty. Moreover, the majority of legal systems prefer to provide instruments for the direct protection of subjects endangered by the creation of a corporate group, while German law focuses mainly on protection of the subsidiary....

Sports used to be the only way to enjoy oneself and to spend free time. Today it rather represents business and an important part of all economies around the world. That is why the European community law includes the sports indirectly in three areas: - the community market of the European union, - the economic competition of the EU, - coordinated policies of the EU. The key role of the entire diploma thesis plays the decision of the European Court in the case Bosman in 1995.

Advertisement plays an important role in the life of companies and it is understandable that there can be advertisements created, which will try to gain benefits for the company in various ways, causing damage to other competitors or to consumers included. A logical reaction is the creation of legal and ethical regulation in order to prevent this. Advertisement regulation exists on national level and in the course of the european integration development also a regulation on the community level has been created, especially in form of directives that have to be incorporated into member states' national legislation. Some of the directives allow the states to preserve stricter provisions, unless they are in conflict with the Treaty establishing the European Community, whereas in others the principle of maximal harmonisation is applied, forbidding stricter regulation. This diploma thesis describes legal regulation in the Czech Republic and the European Union as well as ethical regulation on the domestic and european level. It introduces the most important statutes and directives. One part is completely focused on self-regulation in the area of advertising. The last chapter then outlines possibilities of protection against advertisements that violate the mentioned legal and ethical standards by means of judicial or other authorities and self-regulation.

Magistro darbe nagrinėjama Europos Bendrijos teisės aktų teisėtumo priežiūros tema. Jos svarbą lemia ta aplinkybė, kad EB institucijos yra įpareigotos priimti tik teisėtus aktus ir negali išvengti savo priimtų teisės aktų teisėtumo priežiūros. EB teisės aktų teisėtumas yra tikrinamas trijose pagrindinėse procedūrose – ieškinyje dėl teisės akto panaikinimo (EB sutarties 230 str.), preliminariame nutarime dėl teisės akto galiojimo (234 str.) ir prašyme dėl teisės akto netaikymo (241 str.). Šių procedūrų skirtumai bei ypatybės ir sudaro šio darbo objektą. Magistro darbas susideda iš trijų dalių. Pirmojoje yra aptariama EB tiesės aktų teisėtumo priežiūros funkcijų svarba. Šios funkcijos yra patikėtos Europos Teisingumo Teismui ir Pirmosios instancijos teismui, kurie turi užtikrinti tiek EB institucijų kontrolę, tiek efektyvią privačių asmenų teisių apsaugą. Antrojoje darbo dalyje yra analizuojami atskiri teisėtumo priežiūros procedūrų skirtumai – kokios yra privačių asmenų, valstybių narių ir EB institucijų galimybės inicijuoti minėtas procedūras, kokių EB institucijų ir kurių rūšių teisės aktų teisėtumas gali būti tikrinamas, kokie yra senaties terminai procedūroms pradėti, kokie yra ETT ir PIT sprendimų, priimtų teisėtumo priežiūros procedūrose, teisinių pasekmių skirtumai. Ypatingas dėmesys nagrinėjant teisėtumo kontrolės procedūrų skirtumus yra skiriamas privačių asmenų teisėms. Trečiojoje magistro darbo dalyje yra aptariamas teisėtumo priežiūros procedūrų tarpusavio... [to full text] / This diploma work deals with the issues of the review of the legality of European Community acts. The importance of this theme is based on the grounds that all Community institutions are obliged to adopt only legal measures and cannot avoid the review of their acts. There are three main procedures in which the legality of EC acts may be challenged – an action for annulment (article 230 of EC Treaty), a plea of illegality (article 241) and a preliminary ruling on validity of a Community act (article 234). The differences and specific features of these procedures constitute an object of this work. The diploma work is diveded in three parts. The first part concerns the necessity of functions of review of the legality of EC measures. These functions are entrusted to Community judicature – the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance – and must ensure the control of EC institutions and the effective protection of the rights of private parties as well. In the second part of this work it is analysed what are the possibilities of private parties, member states and EC institutions to initiate each of the mentioned procedure, what types of acts and of which institutions are susceptible to judicial review, what are the time limits to bring proceedings, what are the grounds of illegality of EC measures and what are the effects of decisions given by Community courts in the procedures of judicial review. The special attention in examining the differences between the procedures is... [to full text]

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This work presents the problematic one of the adoption of the action for insult, one of the procedural mechanisms of communitarian justice, in the Latin American right of the Mercosul. For the resolution of the situation problem it was looked to stand out the main characteristics of the European Union and the Mercosul, main with respect to the current structure and to the way of solution of controversies, through the comparative analysis enters the existing divergences between these organisms. The European Union constitutes an organization, in which the European Community law is valid, with the forecast of procedural instruments that guarantee the correct observance of the common norms, serving of paradigm for the Mercosul. The material right to be effective needs procedural norms that assure correct observance and effectiveness of these, therefore the procedural mechanisms is very excellent for the concretion of the legal security that the international organizations need for magnifying of its process of integration. However, the adoption of the action for existing insult in the Union European in the Mercosul demands considerable modifications in the scope of the organization and its State-members, aiming at to the valuation of the communitarian interests, front to the effective values individualistic then. / Este trabalho apresenta a problemática da adoção da ação por incumprimento, um dos mecanismos processuais da justiça comunitária, no direito latino-americano do Mercosul. Para a resolução da situação problema procurou-se ressaltar as principais características da União Européia e do Mercosul, precipuamente no que concerne à estrutura atual e ao modo de solução de controvérsias, através da análise comparativa entre as divergências existentes entre esses organismos. A União Européia constitui uma organização, na qual vige o direito comunitário, com a previsão de instrumentos processuais que garantem a correta observância das normas comuns, servindo de paradigma para o Mercosul. O direito material para ser efetivo necessita de normas processuais que assegurem correta observância e efetividade destas, por isso os mecanismos processuais são muito relevantes para a concretização da segurança jurídica de que as organizações internacionais precisam para ampliação do seu processo de integração. Porém, a adoção da ação por incumprimento existente na União Européia no Mercosul exige modificações consideráveis no âmbito da organização e de seus Estados-membros, visando à valorização dos interesses comunitários, frente aos valores individualista então vigentes.

The thesis deals with monetary remedies in intellectual property infringement suits, focusing on industrial property rights. On the background of enacting of the czech Act number 221/2006 Sb. which implements the directive 2004/48/EC of the European parliament and of the Council, the thesis compares these two texts with each other and also with the proposal for the directive KOM(2003) 46 final in their relevant parts. By doing this, it evaluates the directive and the czech act as the directive's implementation. This evaluation represents the secondary aims of the thesis. Comparison, analysis of factual articles and interviews with relevant experts practicising in the area show that by setting the damages as double the "customary" royalties, the czech Act in his § 5 ods. 2 represents a sanction, which confirms the hypothesis of the prevailance of an analogy between the czech provison and the punitive damages in american law. This fact creates scope for the hypothesis of existance of further analogies, the verification of which is the central aim of the thesis. Therefore, the second part of the thesis analyzes american provisions of the United States Code concerning copyright, trademark and patent law, and related caselaw. This is compared both to the directive and the proposal for it, moreover to the czech copyright Act number 121/2000 Sb. and in particular to the czech Act number 221/2006 Sb. The third part supplements the analysis of relevant czech court decisions. The second and third part identify similar and distinct elements of the provisions and reveal analogies in seemingly different institutes. Differences are spotted in the construct used to achieve the punitive function, furthermore between the terms "customary royalty" and "reasonable royalty" and also between the terms "bezdôvodné obohatenie", "infringer's profits" and "unjust enrichment". Conversely, an analogy is identified between the discretionary power of american courts to increase proven damages or determine statutory damages and the czech institute of "primerané zadosťučinenie" (appropriate satisfaction). The prevailance of prohibition of double recovery is another existing analogy between the american and czech law.