Party Autonomy in International Property Law - Peace Palace Library

B. Private International (Property) Law
It then took the German government nine years to rediscover its own
well-worn draft 6 and finally initiate legislation in 1998, 7 which, despite
the considerable period of time that had passed since the presentation of
the 1984 draft, mainly put the rules proposed therein into German law. 8
The motivation for this sudden leap into legislative action was rooted in
fears that Germany would be at a strategic disadvantage in the upcoming
negotiations on a European Rome II Regulation if it did not have
a single rule on tort conflicts in its codified law. 9 Although no similar
European initiatives were to be expected in the field of property conflicts,
the slightly modified 1984 proposals on this issue made their way into a
new Chapter 6 to the Introductory Code. After the Rome I and Rome II
Regulations 10 had been passed, the Introductory Code was changed again:
Conflicts rules on contracts were abolished, 11 while the rules go verning
torts were kept on the book because of the Rome II Regulation’s restricted
6
A slightly revised draft was presented in 1993, reprinted as an annex in Kropholler,
Internationales Privatrecht, 2 nd ed. 1994.
7
The 1998 draft is reprinted in Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts
(IPRax) 1998, 513 with an accompanying article by Rolf Wagner,
Der Regierungsentwurf eines Gesetzes zum Internationalen Privatrecht für
außervertragliche Schuldverhältnisse und für Sachen, ibid. 429.
8
Gesetz zum Internationalen Privatrecht für außervertragliche Schuldverhältnisse
und für Sachen, BGBl. 1999 part I p. 1026; on the new provisions regarding
international property law in particular, see Pfeiffer, Der Stand des Internationalen
Sachenrechts nach seiner Kodifikation, IPRax 2000, 270; Stoll,
Zur gesetzlichen Regelung des internationalen Sachenrechts in Art. 43-46
EGBGB, IPRax 2000, 259; on the 1999 reform in general, see Junker, Die
IPR-Reform von 1999: Auswirkungen auf die Unternehmenspraxis, Recht
der Internationalen Wirtschaft (RIW) 2000, 241; Kreuzer, Die Vollendung
der Kodifikation des deutschen Internationalen Privatrechts durch das Gesetz
zum Internationalen Privatrecht der außervertraglichen Schuldverhältnisse
und Sachen vom 21.5.1999, Rabels Zeitschrift für internationales und ausländisches
Privatrecht (RabelsZ) 65 (2001) 383.
9
See Rolf Wagner, Ein neuer Anlauf zur Vereinheitlichung des IPR für außervertragliche
Schuldverhältnisse auf EU-Ebene, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht
(EuZW) 1999, 709 (710).
10
Regulation (EC) No. 864 / 2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 11 July 2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome
II), O.J. 2007 L 199 / 40.
11
BGBl. 2009 part I p. 1574; on this reform, see Martiny, Neues deutsches internationales
Vertragsrecht, RIW 2009, 737.
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