文档介绍：THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN CIVIL PROCEDURE
M. Freudenthal The author is Senior Lecturer in Civil Procedure, Molengraaff Institute for Private Law, Utrecht University, herlands. E-mail: M.******@.
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1. Introduction
On the 1st of May 1999, the Treaty of Amsterdam entered into force. Since that time, European civil procedure has e one of the most important topics of private harmonisation within the Union. In exactly four years, several regulations on civil procedure were realised and more have been instigated, all based on Article 65 of the munity Treaty. These procedural instruments aimed, in the first place, at the realisation and the improvement of legal cooperation in order to promote the well-functioning of the internal market. patibility and harmonisation of the national rules of civil procedure did not constitute a target of these regulations, they nevertheless encroached upon the member states’ domestic civil procedure; thus, these regulations provide an impetus to European ha