Introduction to Law

Institutions One institution was theHigh Authority. This was a kind of executive power with the task to implement the aims of th ...

Limited Integration However, before the EEC was founded, two other plans for further European integration had faltered. Plans fo ...

To develop close cooperation on justice and home affairs;... When the Maastricht Treaty was signed in 1992, there were only 12 M ...

tend to be so specific that EU citizens and companies can count on directive-based law to be practically the same across other E ...

voting deserves separate attention because it marks a significant transfer of sover- eignty from the Member States to the EU. Af ...

Tasks Article 17 TEU describes the tasks of the Commission as follows: The Commission shall promote the general interest of the ...

MembersThe current 754 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are directly elected by voters in the EU Member States. The MEP ...

10.4.4 The European Council Tasks Where the task of the Commission is to promote the general interest of the Union, the members ...

If a national court of a Member State must decide a case where, for instance, the interpre- tation of the TEU or the TFEU is at ...

from this deal. The second seller will not sell his car and will therefore not be stimulated to build more cars. If the buyer an ...

substance (ureaformaldehyde) from Germany into the Netherlands. According to the then valid Dutch law, this import was to be cha ...

agencies, branches or subsidiaries by nationals of any Member State established in the territory of any other Member State. Free ...

What does this imply for practical purposes? Van Binsbergen (CJEU Case C-33/74) Van Binsbergen had a legal dispute before the Du ...

Within the framework of the provisions set out in this chapter, all restrictions on payments between Member States and between ...

However, not all EU members participated, for different reasons. Some countries, such as the UK, wanted to stay in control of th ...

This transfer of very large amounts of money from national states to the financial world revealed that the financial position of ...

hand, there is national law, which addresses the inhabitants and nationals of a particular country. Because internal sovereignty ...

an international origin can only become national law if it is explicitly “transformed” into national law by means of legislation ...

law that was valid at the time, this import was to be charged with an import duty. However, according to the EEC Treaty, new dut ...

imposes in a clearly defined way upon individuals, as well as upon the Member States and upon the institutions of the community. ...