ACTA JURIDICA - A MTA Jogtudományi Közleményei Tom. 24 (1982)
1982 / 1-2. sz. - SZILBEREKY JENŐ: Ten years of CMEA legal conference
Acta Juridica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Tomus 24 (1—2), pp. 1—16 (1982) Ten years of CMEA legal conference J. SZILBEREKY President of the Supreme Court The introductory part of the paper deals with the significance of the socialist economic integration and with the nature of Council of Mutual Economic Aid (further on: CMEA). It refers to the results achieved in the social and economic development of the member-countries of CMEA but also to the problems arisen in the recent years. In respect of the improvement of efficiency of co-operation, the accomplishment of the Complex Program adopted in 1971 as well as the realization of long-range complex objective programs of co-operation developed since then are of fundamental importance. All these require the suitable provision for the organizational and functional conditions of CMEA. Therefore, the establishment of the legal foundations of the socialist economic integration, the building up and perfection of the regulation are important means belonging to the system of conditions of the integration. The appropriate legal mechanism may constitute suitable assistance to the efficient functioning of the economic integration. In order to build up the legal mechanism of CMEA, at the end of 1969 a permanent organ of CMEA, the Legal Conference of the member-countries was established. In the past 10 years this Conference considerably contributed by the means of law to the structural building up and to the development of the functioning of the socialist economic integration. Development methods of legal foundations are as follows: elaboration and adoption of normative acts regulating the economic and scientific-technical co-operation, regulation of the order of the litigation, harmonization and unification of the national legal norms, establishment of general legal norms. The forms of this latter are the agreements between the countries as well as the recommendations of CMEA organs to the countries. Chapter 15 of the Complex Program defines the most important tasks of the legal work. The paper treats the work hitherto done according to the system of Chapter 15 of the Complex Program. The hitherto displayed legal activity comprises the following fields: —Elaboration of recommendations for harmonization of the national economic plans and of the investments relating to some objects of common interest. Elaboration of legal norms concerning the field of the specialization of production and the co-operation. Elaboration of statutory provisions for the co-operation in the scientific and technical research work.—Elaboration of principles relating to the liability of the countries.—Taking measures for the harmonization of national legal norms relating to the economic and scientific-technical co-operation of economic, technical and other organizations established by the membercountries.—Further development of the General Conditions of Delivery (1968) between the organizations of the member-countries of CMEA. Further development of the system of norms relating to the liability of the economic organizations in case of a failure or faulty performance of obligations. Elaboration of model-rules relating to the foundation and to the conditions of activity of the international economic organizations of the member-countries of CMEA.—Questions relating to the legal protection of inventions, trademarks and designs as well as elaboration of model-contracts of licence.—Elaboration of an agreement relating to the arbitration in legal disputes arising in the course of economic co-operation.—Elaboration of a treaty on the legal position and the immunity of the inter-state economic organizations active in a definite field of co-operation. Provisions for the exchange of legal experiences and informations. 2 Acta Juridica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 24. 1982