The recent questions around the Euro have revealed the fragility of a monetary construction which is not based on common legal foundations: it is important to consolidate the Eurozone, to give it meaning and a future, based on a unified system of business law, the bond between companies and a vector of convergence. In the framework of the enhanced cooperation which has been enabled by the European Treaties, the implementation of a European business code, on the political momentum of the major c...

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Les récentes interrogations autour de l'Euro ont révélé la fragilité d'une construction monétaire ne reposant pas sur des fondations juridiques communes: il importe de consolider la zone Euro, de lui donner du sens et de l'avenir, en la fondant sur un système de droit des affaires unifié, ciment des entreprises et vecteur de convergence. Dans le cadre des coopérations renforcées permises par les traités européens, la mise place d'un code européen des affaires, sur l'impulsion polit...

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After two days of announcements, speeches and rich discussions, on the afternoon of 22 September 2015, the OHADAC Convention finally drew to a close. After a speech by Marlène Melisse, 4th Vice-President of the Departmental Council of Guadeloupe, Manuel de Jésus Pirez, Director for Legal Affairs at the Ministry for External Relations in Cuba, took the stage, highlighting his government's desire to extend its participation in the OHADAC legal and political adventure and praising Cuban jurists f...

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Sylvie Monjean-Decaudin, Professor of Law specialized in legal translation at the University of Cergy Pontoise (Paris) - Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Juritranslatology (CERIJE), France whose team has translated the OHADAC texts, gave a talk at the conference entitled “Translating OHADAC texts - A field report”. As an introduction, Professor Monjean-Decaudin noted that legal translation is of increasing interest to academics, particularly since globalization m...

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At the OHADAC convention, which took place on 21 and 22 September 2015 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, a special workshop was dedicated to “The OHADAC Model Law of Commercial Companies”. This text was written by the team of researchers and academics under the aegis of Professor Rodolfo Davalos Fernandez. The panel was chaired by: Christophe Cuartero, lawyer at the Guadeloupe bar, standing in for the absent chair, Jamil Houda and brought together the following speakers: Rodo...

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