The present publication of re ports and discussions sterns from the
fourth Session of the Hague-Zagreb Colloquium, held at Eernewoude, in
the Netherlands. The preceding three Sessions were held at Stubice
Toplice, in Yugoslavia (1974), Zeist, in the Netherlands (1976) and,
again in Yugoslavia, at Opatija (1978). The fourth Session was
originally planned for May 1980. On the eve of the meeting, the then
President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the late
Marshall J .B. Tito, passed away. On hearing the news of the Marshall's
death, the Organizing Committee of the Hague-Zagreb Colloquium
immediately decided that the Session should not then be held. The
postponement lasted, in fact, a whole year: the fourth Session was
convened at Eernewoude in May 1981. For the Eernewoude Session the
formula that had produced such excellent results in the previous
conferences was maintained. Four topics of international trade law were
thoroughly discussed on the basis of reports submitted by scholars from
the various legal systems represented at the conference. Apart from the
Yugoslav and Dutch participants, scholars from the United Kingdom, the
Federal Republic of Germany, Belgium and Norway took part in the
discussions, be it in the capacity of reporter, of chairman or as expert
in the field covered by the Colloquium: the law of international trade.
A student competition had again been organised and the members of the
win- ning teams from Yugoslavia and from the Netherlands were among the
participants.