Zusammenfassung der Ressource
European Union Law
- Types of EU
Law
- Directives:
- Bind member state to
which they are
addressed as to the
result to be achieved.
E.g Working time
directive
- Treaties:
- All treaties signed by
our head of government
automatically become
law. E.g Treaty of Rome
- Regulatons:
- binding in every aspect
and directly applicable
in member states. E.g Re
Tachographs
- State Liablity
- Member states have a duty to
compensate for ay losses as a
result of their failure to properly
implement directives.
- Conflicts between EU and Domestic Law
- Eu law must take supremacy even national
law must give way to EU law. E.g Costa V
ENEL (1964), Van Bend en Loos (1963)
- Institutions of the EU
- Commission
- 28 members - one per member state. These are
independent of their member state and are
appointed for 5 years. Each commissioner heads a
department, making sure treaty provisions and
other law made by the union are properly
implemented.
- European Parliament
- 750 members are elected
every 5 years. Discuss
proposals put forward to
commission
- Council of Ministers
- Each member sends a representative.
Appointed for 6 months. It is the principle
decision making body.
- European Court of Justice (ECJ)
- 28 Judges - one per state. Sever for 6 years. Sit in
chambers of 3 or 5 judges or in Grand Chamber (13
Judges). Ensures Eu law is applied
- Enforcing EU Law
- once a piece of EU law has been created, then citizens of
member states are going to want to use that law to claim
any rights given to them. The different sources of EU law
are enforced in different ways.
- Treaties
- Enforceable by any 'individual
against either the state or
another individual' E.g 'Van
Duyn v Home Office'
- Regulations
- Binding in every aspect
- Directives
- Must be implemented