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As with previous editions, this third edition features the full text of every piece of adopted European legislation affecting companies and the financial sector, including directives, regulations, reccommendations and other relevant instruments. It is divided into sections on banking law, capital movement, company law, consumer protection, enterprise law, insurance law and securities regulation. The purpose of this text is to offer an easily accessible, properly organised and updated collection of all European Instruments that have been enacted in the above fields. Both in legal practice and in academia the need often arises to consult European legislation with the knowledge that it is up-to-date and consolidated. This edition is made even more valuable by the inclusion of section-by-section case commentaries on almost all of the relevant European Court of justice cases and many rulings from national courts, thus provising a useful guide to interpretaion of the various instruments.

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Klaus Hopt is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law in Hamburg, Germany . He has been a Professor in Tuebingen, Florence, Bern, Munich, and a visiting Professor in the University of Pennsylvania, EUI Florence, Paris I / Sorbonne, Kyoto University, Univeriste Libre de Bruxelles, Geneva, Tokyo University, University of Chicago, and New York University. He was a judge at the Court of Appeals of Stuttgart from 1981-1985, and a member of the International Faculty of Corporate and Capital Market Law. He has also been a member of the German Take-over Commission, the Deputation Deutscher Juristentag, the Group of High Level Experts on Company Law, and of the European Commission. He has been an expert for the German Parliament, for various German Ministries, for Bulgaria, and for the World Bank. Eddy Wymeersch is Professor of Commercial Law, University of Ghent, Belgium, where he teaches company law, securities regulation and banking law. He is a consultant to the EC Commission, the World Bank, and the IFC. He is a member of the corporate governance commission of the Brussels Stock Exchange, and Chairman of the Simpler Legislation for the Internal Market working party on the 1st and 2nd directive. He also acts as advisor to the Belgian Government, as a member of the Legislative Branch of the Council of State. He is a member of the Board of the National Bank of Belgium, and the Belgian Corporate Governance Commission. He was Chairman of the Board of Brussels International Airport Company, and adviser on governance issues to several listed Belgian Companies

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