Europäische Vorlageverfahren und nationales Zivilprozessrecht

The preliminary reference procedure of the Court of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) represents an interesting and unique attempt to copy the preliminary ruling procedure of the ECJ without at the same time having to take over the supranational elements of the Community legal order. Patterned after the European Union procedure, it is designed as interlocutory proceedings within a pending legal action before the national court which is doing the submission. This results inevitably in a close interaction between national procedural law and European law. Against this backdrop, Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen investigates and compares the integration of the two preliminary reference procedures into the civil procedural law of Norway and Germany.