The Council of the EU’s Working Party on Civil Law Matters will discuss, on Monday 10 October, a first compromise text on the European Commission’s proposal for a directive to combat SLAPPs (see EUROPE B12940A16). The text put forward by the Czech Presidency, which EUROPE was able to obtain, aims above all to better define the scope of the directive. It focuses in particular on the elements used to determine the cross-border nature of a court case.
In essence, the directive presented by...