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L’Europe, la procédure civile et le créancier: l’injonction de payer européenne et la procédure européenne de règlement des petits litiges

This output received very significant recognition. It was widely quoted in Western Europe, e.g. D'Alessandro, Choosing Among the Three Regulations, Int'l Lis 2010. 39; Hess, Europaisches Zivilprozessrecht, C.F. Muller, Heidelberg, 2010; Kropholler / von Hein, Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht, Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 2011; Avis de l'Association luxembourgeoise pour l'étude du droit de la concurrence sur le Projet de loi No 5816, http://www.luxcompetitionassociation.org/Avis_Principal.pdf; etc

Public bodies have sometimes referred to it, e.g. the Belgian Council of State (opinion N° 46.295/2 (20th April 2009) on the introduction of an 'injonction de payer' in Belgian legislation, footnote 12, http://www.lachambre.be/FLWB/pdf/52/1287/52K1287009.pdf)

The aim of the article is to show that, in contrast with the scientific literature on the topic, the creation of an European Order for Payment (EOP), followed by a European Small Claims Procedure, is far less about the cross-border recovery of debts than the creation of a true European Civil Procedure, a move confirmed in 2013 by the European Commission. It also shows, again in contrast with the literature on the topic, that the EOP does not reach any compromise between the competing procedural models but adheres to the Germanic model, a point confirmed in 2012 by the ECJ.