Draft:Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen

The International Federation of European Law, more commonly known under its French acronym FIDE (Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen), is an umbrella organisation whose members are the national associations for European Union law in the Member States of the European Union as well as in the United Kingdom, in Norway and in Switzerland,  for example the Austrian Society for European Law. The FIDE was founded in 1961 and is incorporated as an international non-profit association under Belgian law. It is said that, in its early days, it had a significant positive impact on the acceptance of EU law by the courts and authorities of the Member States of the (then) European Communities.

Its importance today lies in particular in the organisation of its biannual congresses, which are regarded as the most significant congresses in the area of EU law. They feature lectures by internationally recognized scholars in that area and practitioners working in the institutions of the European Union (in particular the Court of Justice of the European Union). The FIDE congresses thus serve as an international platform for the exchange of ideas between legal scholars and practitioners in the field of EU law.