Adaptación del Reino Unido al Reglamento Roma II

El Reino Unido ha aprobado "The Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations (England and Wales and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008", de 12 de noviembre de 2008 y que entrará en en vigor el 11 de enero de 2009, fecha en la que empezará a aplicarse el Reglamento Roma II.

Mediante esta disposición se adapta el ordenamiento inglés a las disposiciones del Reglamento (CE) Nº 864/2007 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo relativo a la ley aplicable a las obligaciones extracontractuales («Roma II»). A modo de resumen y de acuerdo con su Nota Aclaratoria (Explanatory Note):

"The purpose of these regulations is two-fold. The first is to modify the relevant current inconsistent national law in England and Wales and Northern Ireland. Regulations 2 and 3 restrict the application of the general statutory choice of law rules in this area. These are contained in Part III of the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995. Regulation 4 restricts the application of certain provisions in the Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984 and regulation 5 restricts the application of analogous provisions in the Foreign Limitation Periods (Northern Ireland) Order 1985.
The second purpose involves extending the application of the Regulation to certain cases that would otherwise not be regulated by it. These are cases where in principle the choice of applicable law is confined to the law of one of the United Kingdom’s three jurisdictions, that is England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and to the law of Gibraltar. These cases therefore lack the international dimension which is otherwise characteristic of cases falling under the Regulation. Under Article 25(2) of the Regulation Member States are not obliged to apply the Regulation to such cases. To maximise consistency between the rules that apply to determine the law applicable to non-contractual obligations, regulation 6 of these regulations extends, in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the scope of the Regulation to conflicts solely between the laws of England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar."

La Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations (England and Wales and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008 modifica las siguientes disposiciones:

• La Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995.
• La Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984.
• La Foreign Limitation Periods (Northern Ireland) Order 1985.

En relación con el art. 25.2 del Reglamento Roma II (Sistemas no unificados), el Reino Unido declara lo siguiente:

"Notwithstanding Article 25(2) of Regulation (EC) No. 864/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (“Rome II”), that Regulation shall apply in the case of conflicts between—

(a) the laws of different parts of the United Kingdom, or
(b) between the laws of one or more parts of the United Kingdom and Gibraltar,

as it applies in the case of conflicts between the laws of other countries."

Para más información véase la noticia publicada ayer día 26 por Giorgio Buono en Conflict of Laws .Net.