À l’heure de la monétarisation de chacun des éléments de notre société, la présente recherche relative à la conservation des milieux marins en droit international et droit de l’Union européenne opère une incursion holistique en droit de l’environnement, notamment axée sur l’analyse juridique, et plus largement socio-éco-systémique, de la conservation et de la gestion durables des milieux marins.Notre étude analyse, au regard du droit, les principales problématiques telles que les délimitations maritimes, les ressources des milieux marins et la gestion des zones marines protégées, mettant ainsi en exergue la nécessité d’une nouvelle gouvernance des océans et sous-tendant de fait la participation accrue de l’ensemble des acteurs socio-politiques concernés. En effet, la participation ainsi que l’accès à l’information et à la justice en matière environnementale apparaissent aujourd’hui comme des outils de conservation des milieux marins aux fins d’une garantie efficiente des droits de l’Homme.L’analyse de la lutte contre la pollution des milieux marins en droit international et droit de l’Union européenne permet d’envisager tant les causes (pollutions opérationnelles, accidentelles ou encore telluriques) que les conséquences de ce qui est communément admis comme une source majeure de pollution des mers. Est alors menée une réflexion sur les moyens potentiels susceptibles de mieux garantir la sécurité et la sûreté maritime, notamment à travers le cas de la piraterie maritime, à la faveur d’un éclairage, circonstancié et prospectif, sur quelques-unes des législations internationales et européennes en matière de lutte contre les actes illicites maritimes et les atteintes à l’environnement marin. / In an era when every element in our society can be monetized, this research examining the conservation of marine environment in European union and International Law will lead a holistic incursion in environmental law which will include a legal and a socio-eco-systemic approach to the conservation and the sustainable management of marine areas.This study provides a legal analysis of key issues: maritime boundary delimitations, marine resources and management of protected marine areas. It will underline the need for a new type of ocean governance involving an increased implication of socio-political stakeholders. Participation, access to information and environmental justice appear, now more than ever, as the main tools to ensure marine areas conservation and, ultimately, to safeguard human rights.The analysis of international efforts to fight the pollution of marine areas, through recourse to international and European union law is led against its various causes (operational, accidental or telluric pollutions) as well as their consequences. An analysis of available tools to better guarantee maritime security and safety - including through a study of maritime piracy - will allow for a comprehensive and prospective view of some of the international and European union legislations regarding illicit maritime acts and harmful acts against marine environment.

Le contrôle juridictionnel des droits fondamentaux, en matière de procédures applicables aux pratiques anticoncurrentielles, s'inscrit dans un contexte marqué par l'affirmation de la dimension répressive et la diversification des modalités de mise en oeuvre du droit des pratiques anticoncurrentielles. Par ailleurs, la protection des droits fondamentaux constitue un impératif incontournable au sein de l'ordre juridique de l'Union européenne. Les juridictions de l'Union sont confrontées à deux enjeux principaux.Le premier, essentiellement procédural, réside dans l'encadrement du déroulement et de l'articulation des procédures servant la mise en oeuvre effective des articles 101 et 102 TFUE. Les juges de l'Union doivent concilier, d'une part, la protection des droits fondamentaux dont le respect sous-tend le caractère équitable des procédures et, d'autre part, la préservation de l'efficacité des procédures. Sur ce point, l'amélioration progressive de la protection des droits des entreprises n'épuise pas une priorité accordée aux impératifs d'efficacité et d'effectivité.Le second défi, de nature institutionnelle, tient au respect des exigences découlant du droit à un procès équitable. Le maintien du système institutionnel au sein duquel la Commission concentre différents pouvoirs est subordonné à l'affermissement d'un contrôle juridictionnel répondant à certains impératifs. Ainsi,un droit fondamental commande une intensification du contrôle exercé sur certaines décisions. En outre, les droits fondamentaux constituent des instruments utiles,permettant aux juges de l'Union de consolider un contrôle juridictionnel approfondi et objectif. / The judicial control of fundamental rights, in the field of EU antitrust proceedings, has developed in a context characterized by the increasing importance ofthe repressive side and the diversification of procedures serving the enforcement of EU provisions applying to anticompetitive conducts. Besides, the protection of fundamental rights has become an unavoidable imperative within the EU legal order.The EU courts are expected to cope with two main challenges.The first one is essentially procedure-oriented and lies in the way the various procedures applying to articles 101 and 102 TFUE are to be legally carried on and combined. The EU judicature is supposed to reconcile, on the one hand, the protection of fundamental rights that strengthen the fairness of procedures and, on the other hand, the quest for procedural efficiency. In that respect, the progressive enhancement of the protection of stakeholders' rights does not completely compensate for the priority still granted to the objectives of efficiency and effectiveness. The second one rather is of an institutional nature and regards the respect of the structural requirements stemming from the right to a fair trial. The upholding ofthe current institutional system that provides the EU Commission with substantial powers depends on the capabality of the control exerted by the EU courts to meet certain requirements in terms of completeness and intensity. Thus, a fundamental principle appears to be the initial driving force of a significant strengthening of the judicial control. Moreover, fundamental rights have proven to be instrumental in enabling the EU judges to deploy an in-depth and objective control.

O presente estudo enfoca o termo de compromisso de ajustamento de conduta celebrado perante o Ministério Público do Trabalho. Importante salientar que os conflitos de massa trouxeram nova roupagem ao sistema jurídico brasileiro de forma a consagrar e a insculpir o preceito da tutela coletiva. Neste sentido, a efetividade dos direitos metaindividuais ganhou corpo por intermédio das formas extrajudiciais e judiciais de solução de conflitos coletivos, tudo em prol da garantia dos direitos sociais, da paz social e do pleno emprego. A coletivização dos interesses implicou redução dos conflitos trabalhistas individuais, abrangência de interesses de grupo, categoria ou classe, maior observância dos valores sociais do trabalho, conciliando, portanto, os princípios fundamentais e basilares da República Federativa do Brasil. O alicerce dos direitos metaindividuais trabalhistas estrutura-se nos direitos humanos fundamentais e, neste contexto, devem pautar-se as cláusulas mínimas a serem estipuladas no ajuste de conduta como forma de tutela contra as lesões a interesses difusos e coletivos na esfera da relação de trabalho. A defesa da ordem jurídica, do regime democrático e dos interesses sociais e individuais indisponíveis foi conferida ao Parquet Trabalhista na qualidade de órgão agente e consagrada pela Constituição de 1988, dissociando-se, efetivamente, da função eminentemente parecerista (órgão interveniente) até então prevalecente. A estrutura do termo de compromisso de ajustamento de conduta, bem como sua forma de celebração, natureza jurídica, objeto, limite das cláusulas, dano moral coletivo, hipóteses de flexibilização da multa estipulada, competência territorial para assinatura, descumprimento do ajuste, além de outros aspectos polêmicos alusivos ao tema constituem objeto da presente dissertação. Não menos importante é a abordagem do procedimento investigatório e do inquérito civil, instrumentos comumente utilizados no exercício do poder de investigação consagrado pelo artigo 127 da Constituição Federal brasileira à Instituição do Parquet em defesa da ordem jurídica, do regime democrático e dos interesses sociais e individuais indisponíveis. / The present study focuses on the commitment/agreement term of conduct settlement signed before the Labor Public Prosecution Office (Prosecuting Counsel). It is important to stress that the mass conflicts brought new drapery to the Brazilian legal system in order to establish and inscribe the precept of the collective protection/injunction. So, the effectiveness of the metaindividual rights got stronger through the mediation of the extrajudicial and judicial forms of solution of the collective conflicts, everything in favor of the social rights guaranty, social peace and full employment. The collectivization of the interests implied reduction of the individual labor conflicts, coverage of the interests of group, category or class, better compliance of the social values of work, reconciling, therefore, the fundamental and basic principles of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The basis of the labor metaindividual rights structures itself in the fundamental human rights and, in this context, there should be the minimum clauses to be stipulated in the conduct settlement as a form of tutelage against the damages to diffuse and collective interests in the sphere of the working relationship. The defense of the legal system/order, the democratic regime and of the unavailable social and individual rights was given to the Labor Parquet as an agent organ and consecrated by the 1988 Constitution, dissociating, effectively, from the eminently function of giving an option (intervening Organ) prevailing until then. The structure of the commitment/agreement term of conduct settlement, as well as its form of celebration, legal nature, object, limit of the clauses, collective wounded feelings, hypotheses of relaxation of the stipulated fine, territorial jurisdiction for signature, noncompliance of the settlement/adjustment, besides other polemic aspects allusive to the theme are object of the present essay. Not less important is the approach of the investigative proceeding and of the civil investigation, instruments commonly used in the performance of the investigation Power consecrated by the section 127 of the Federal Brazilian Constitution to the Institution of the Parquet in defense of the legal system/order, of the democratic regime and of the unavailable social and individual rights.

Sporting nationality in the light of European Union law Jan Exner Abstract The aim of this master's thesis is to answer the question of how to grasp and categorize the concept of sporting nationality in the EU. Its goal is to consider compliance of the rules set up by international sporting governing bodies determining athletes' eligibility in national teams with the concrete provisions of EU law. The provisions under scrutiny are mostly those laying down the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of nationality in the fields of EU citizenship, internal market freedoms and competition. The master's thesis simultaneously aims at suggesting concrete recommendations to international sporting governing bodies in order to better adapt their rules to EU law requirements. The authors of this master's thesis first claims that rules governing athletes' eligibility in national teams fall within the scope of EU law since they have economic impact and effect. Secondly, it is submitted that these rules limit athletes' rights under EU law and constitute therefore a restriction to respective provisions of the EU legal order. That is why the question whether such a restriction to EU law may be justified is examined. In this respect, the Court of Justice provided sporting world with a useful manual on how to pass EU law...

La marque, une des plus vieilles institutions sociales, a pris une importance inégalée au XXe siècle devenant à la fois l’illustration de la globalisation moderne et un moyen d’expression tant culturelle que citoyenne. Aussi, depuis les années 1920, on s’interroge sur l’évolution des fonctions de la marque et du droit de marque. Les titulaires de droit ont notamment cherché à étendre leur protection au-delà des frontières initiales pour y inclure l’imaginaire de marque (brand) en se réappropriant indûment le langage de la propriété. Ce mélange des genres est venu perturber le difficile équilibre entre la protection des intérêts commerciaux et des libertés fondamentales. À la lumière de la littérature historique, sémiotique et marketing, nous soumettons que l’imaginaire de marque a pris de l’ampleur tout en se détachant de la notion de marque. La rationalité de la marque et du droit de marque est restée attachée à leurs racines originelles à savoir la référence du public à une source. C’est autour de celle-ci que la protection s’opère et que la construction du régime juridique du droit de marque devrait être réalisée. Il convient ainsi de refondre le régime juridique du droit de marque autour de cette fonction d’origine. Une reconstruction fonctionnelle de la notion de marque permet d’enligner le droit avec la diversité des marques dans la société moderne : tout ce qui est à même de référer le public à une origine devrait se qualifier au titre d’une marque. Cela permet notamment d’inclure de manière cohérente les hologrammes et les noms de domaine à l’édifice, outre les autres formes de marque encore inconnues. Cette approche fonctionnelle permettra de surcroît de recentrer le droit de marque sur la notion de confusion du public. Il s’agit notamment d’abandonner le critère de l’emploi, tout en sortant les marques de la sphère du mercantile. Cette rationalité retrouvée offrira une ligne de protection flexible répondant aux enjeux démocratiques de protection de la liberté d’expression mais également à ceux du numérique en lien par exemple avec la publicité ou les mots-clics. / Rethinking Trademark Rights: An Essay on a Functional Approach to Marks in a Global and Digital Economy – Trademarks, one of the oldest social institutions, rose to a unique standing in the 20th century to become the symbol of modern globalization as well as a means of expression and activism. Since the 1920s, the evolution of the function of marks and trademark rights is discussed. Rights holders sought to extend their protection beyond the initial boundaries to include the marketing concept of brand through erroneous language and rhetoric of property, ownership and theft. Such propositions have disrupted the fragile and dynamic equilibrium between commercial interests and civil liberties. Looking at History, Semiotics and Marketing, I argue that brands gained prominence, but took off from trademarks. The rationale for the latter and for trademark rights is still fundamentally rooted in the referential function to a source. The protection and the legal construction of trademark rights should only revolve around such a function. I therefore propose to recast trademarks’ legal framework upon this function of origin. Redelineating the concept of “mark” through a functional approach will align the law with the diversity and versatility of trademarks in modern societies: whatever serves a referential purpose should amount to a mark. This will notably offer a coherent scheme to include holograms or domain names, among future and unknown new means of reference. This functional approach will also refocus mark rights on the standard of public confusion. I argue that the law should deviate from the standard of use, and understand marks out of the trade sphere. This rationale would offer a stringent but flexible framework that addresses issues of freedom of expression as well as those arising out of the digital world, e.g. advertisement and hashtags.

Transformé en une ressource biomédicale au profit du soin d’autrui (sang, tissus, cellules, etc.) ou de la recherche (sujet d’essai clinique), le corps est aujourd’hui soumis aux enjeux de la globalisation du monde médical. Un tel constat ne vient pas remettre en cause toute approche fondée sur les droits de l’Homme, mais il oblige à les repenser différemment, en incluant l’ensemble des acteurs en cause. Les droits de l’Homme doivent alors adapter leur vocabulaire, sans compromettre les valeurs qui sous-tendent leur régime. La thèse soutenue vise ainsi à démontrer que les principes tant de la bioéthique que du régime traditionnel des droits de l’Homme ne sont pas suffisants pour permettre la protection des individus dans le contexte spécifique de la transformation du corps humain en ressource biomédicale. Il est alors nécessaire d’apprendre aux acteurs de la normalisation technique de la biomédecine et du marché de la santé à traduire le langage des droits de l’Homme dans leurs propres dialectes. / Transformed into a biomedical resource for the benefit of the care of others (blood, tissues, cells, etc.) or research (clinical trial subject), the body is now subject to the challenges of the globalization of the medical world. Such finding won’t challenge all approach based on human rights, but it requires rethinking them differently, by including all stakeholders involved. Human rights must then adapt their vocabulary, without compromising their founding values. The thesis here developed aims to demonstrate that both the principles of bioethics and of human rights are not sufficient for the protection of individuals in the specific context of the transformation of the human body in biomedical resource. It is then necessary to teach all actors of the technical standardization of biomedicine and of health market to translate the language of human rights in their own dialects.

This thesis deals with the proposed changes in the area of EU asylum and migration law in the light of the current refugee crisis. EU asylum and migration law are two separate areas between which there is a "close connection". The paper describes EU asylum and migration legal framework, then delimits the term "refugee crisis" and reviews recent measures taken or proposed by the EU. The thesis is divided into 3 chapters. In the first part of the paper the author follows up the legal framework which encompasses both international legal instruments (1951 Refugee Convention and others) and EU primary law and secondary acts. The second chapter is dedicated to analysis of the "refugee crisis", its crises factors, as well as to reflections on the characteristic of this crisis as a state of emergency. The last chapter, which is internally divided into two subchapters, concerning asylum and migration law, relates to particular measures taken by the EU during the crisis. The subchapter which deals with the asylum law includes the following topics: on the one hand it describes ad hoc measures to tackle the migration crisis in Italy and Greece, on the other hand it analyzes proposals of a system reform (e.g. proposal for a permanent EU relocation mechanism, reform of the Dublin system, completing the reform of...

L’émergence depuis quelques années de nouvelles lois de police pour protéger certaines parties faibles au sein des contrats internationaux a été identifiée sous l’appellation de lois de police protectrices. En tant que renouvellement du mécanisme traditionnel des lois de police, cette émergence interroge, notamment quant à son bien-fondé. Cela suppose d’envisager les lois de police protectrices à la fois en tant que nouveau concept, et en tant qu’objet s’intégrant dans un environnement plus général. Ces nouvelles lois de police se sont imposées pour répondre à un besoin de protection sur la scène internationale. Cependant, la philosophie des lois de police apparaît difficilement conciliable avec l’objectif de protection d’une partie faible. Dès lors, il conviendrait de modifier certaines caractéristiques du mécanisme afin qu’il soit en mesure d’atteindre cet objectif de protection. Mais alors, se crée une déformation du concept initial de l’outil des lois de police. En outre, envisagées au sein de leur environnement, à savoir le droit européen des contrats, les lois de police protectrices sont susceptibles d’être limitées par des concepts propres au droit de l’Union. Elles peuvent aussi être dépassées par des outils d’inspiration européenne qui mettent en œuvre un autre lien entre l’impérativité d’une norme et l’exigence de protection de la partie faible. / These past few years, the advent of new mandatory provisions to protect certain weaker parties within the realm of international contracts have been identified as protective mandatory provisions. As a renewal of the traditional mandatory provisions mechanism, it raises several questions with regards to its merits. This requires to consider protective mandatory provisions as a concept in itself, as well as an object integrated in a more global legal environment. These new mandatory provisions have appeared as an answer to a need for protection on the international level. However, the philosophy of mandatory provisions can be considered to be incompatible with the objective of the protecting the weaker party. Therefore, it is necessary to change certain characteristics of the mechanism in order for it to effectively attain its protection objective. It would then, however, amount to a deformation of the initial concept of mandatory provisions. Finally, considered within their environment, i.e. European contract law, protective mandatory provisions can be limited by EU-specific law concepts. They can also be surpassed by other tools, of European inspiration, putting into effect another link between the imperative character of the norm and the protection requirement of the weaker party.

L'étude de l'encadrement juridique : du développement des biocarburants démontre une tendance contemporaine, celle de la diffusion des instruments normatifs publics et privés pour régir les impacts environnementaux et sociaux potentiels des produits échangés au plan international. Une « gouvernance multi-niveaux » s'observe à deux niveaux : celui des insuffisances des outils de droit public pour assurer un développement durable des biocarburants et celui de l'émergence des outils de droit privé au soutien de leur « durabilité ». En raison de la rareté des instruments spécifiques , et des limites, tant des instruments généraux de droit international public, que du traitement limité des biocarburants par le « modèle » du droit de l'Union européenne à cause de sa portée fragile au regard du droit de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC), nous soutenons que les outils de droit privé peuvent effectivement contribuer à la protection de l'environnement et au respect des droits de l'Homme dans ce domaine. La thèse démontre que les normes privées internationales et les contrats du commerce international des biocarburants représentent un véritable levier pour la construction d'un « droit transnational » en mesure de promouvoir le développement durable de ces produits. Certes, les limites inhérentes à un droit construit à partir de la seule volonté des acteurs privés sont réelles. Néanmoins, le recours à ces initiatives normatives privées peut contribuer à surmonter certaines insuffisances des initiatives normatives publiques. La pertinence de la normalisation internationale privée appliquée aux biocarburants durables dans le droit de l'OMC pour l'harmonisation internationale des « critères de durabilité », et l'apport de la contractualisation pour consolider l’engagement « socio-environnementalement responsable » des entreprises participant aux chaînes globales d'approvisionnement, sont notamment mis en évidence. / The study of the legal framework for the development of biofuels demonstrates the contemporary trend of using public and private normative instruments to regulate the potential environmental and social impacts of products traded internationally. A "multi-level governance” can be observed from two levels: first from the inadequacies of public law tools to assure the sustainable development of biofuels and, secondly from the emergence of the private law tools to promote its "sustainability". Due to the scarcity of specific tools and limits in existing instruments of public international law, and due to the limits in the way the European Union "model" law treats this issue as well as to its questionable legality with the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules we consequently argue that private law tools may actually provide stronger regulation and bring real contribution to increase environmental protection and human rights respect in the biofuel sector. The thesis demonstrates that international private standards and international commercial contracts represent a real lever for the construction of a "transnational law" capable of promoting the sustainable development of biofuels. Certainly, there are limitations inherent to a law built from the will of private actors. However, the use of these private normative initiatives can help overcome shortcomings existing in the public law tools. The relevance of private international standardization for the international harmonization of biofuel's sustainability norms according WTO laws and the contribution of contractual commitments to consolidate the "corporate social­environmental responsibility" engagement of companies participating in the international biofuel supply chains are particularly herein highlighted.

La littérature juridique a montré que les décisions administratives adoptées par les administrations nationales dans le champ d’application du droit de l’Union européenne peuvent avoir des effets extraterritoriaux. En remettant en cause le principe de territorialité du droit public, ce phénomène ouvre un nouveau champ d’étude qui a pour objet la dimension transnationale de l’activité administrative. A travers l’étude de la coopération administrative entre Etats membres, ce travail explore la mise en place d’un système de reconnaissance des décisions administratives dans l’espace administratif européen. / Legal literature has shown that the administrative decisions adopted by national administrations within the scope of EU law may have extraterritorial effects. By challenging the principle of territoriality of public law, this phenomenon opens a new field of study whose object is the transnational dimension of administrative activity. Through the study of administrative cooperation between Member States, this work explores the establishment of a system of recognition of administrative decisions in the European administrative space.