After the Treaty of Rome in 1957, the European Economic Community (EEC), since 1959 has attempted to harmonize design law in the first six Members States, and has seen quickly that this harmonization would be hopeless at that point.
On July 14, 2015, the United States and its partners in the P5 + 1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom, coordinated by the European Union’s High Representative) reached a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran.
Companies and individuals are in need of neutral international courts due to the fact that globalization increasingly causes international disputes in cross-border transactions.