Translation of "écart à la loi de réciprocité " (French → English) :

reciprocity failure [ reciprocity departure ]

reciprocity effect [ reciprocity-law failure | effect of reciprocity-law failure | reciprocity failure ]

reciprocity departure | reciprocity failure

deviations from the reciprocity law | reciprocity failure

International public policy: // After having determined the law applicable to a given legal situation in accordance with its conflict rules, the court may consider that the application of this law entails a result not compatible with the values of the forum. Accordingly, it rules out the normally applicable foreign law and applies its own law.

Overriding mandatory rule: // Cf. Article 7 of the Convention. Concept of private international law which designates the provisions to which a state attaches such importance that it requires them to be applied wherever the legal situation is connected with its territory, whatever law is otherwise applicable to the situation. Unlike the mechanism of the international public-policy exception, the court does not look to its conflict rules to ascertain the applicable law and evaluate whether its content may be incompatible with the system of values of the forum but automatically applies its own rules.

Only if it emerged that the law designated is not appropriate because other circumstances clearly militate in favour of another law would the court then use the "exception clause".

However, the Court of Justice has also excluded certain principles of international law that it considers incompatible with the structure of the European Union, such as the principle of reciprocity in the fulfilment of state obligations.