1 / 28

European Union

European Union. “ The EU is fantastically exciting...in a really boring way.” Eddie Izzard, Dressed to Kill c1998 Ella Communications Ltd. Used with permission. What is the EU?. a supra-national organization

mader
Download Presentation

European Union

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. European Union

  2. “The EU is fantastically exciting...in a really boring way.” Eddie Izzard, Dressed to Kill c1998 Ella Communications Ltd. Used with permission.

  3. What is the EU? • a supra-national organization • composed of the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) • divided into 3 pillars (chiefly economic, foreign, and justice policy) • treaty-based

  4. Major Council of Europe Institutions Major European Union Institutions Committee of Ministers (ministers of foreign affairs from each member state)  Council of the European Union or Council of Ministers (member state representatives, usually foreign affairs ministers) European Commission (elected members) European Council (member state heads of state) Parliamentary Assembly (appointed or elected members) European Parliament (elected members) European Court of Human Rights European Court of Justice European Commission of Human Rights Economic & Social Committee Congress of Local & Regional Authorities Committee of the Regions

  5. Sources of Law in the EU • treaties = primary legislation • directives and regulations = most important kinds of secondary legislation • legislative decisions = less important secondary legislation

  6. Official Journal • “L” series –part of OJ where primary and secondary legislation appears • “C” series –drafts, notices

  7. Major EU Institutions • European Commission • Council of the EU • European Parliament • European Court of Justice

  8. Co-decision Procedure • primary procedure for EU legislative enactments • wide spectrum of policy areas • allows Parliament equal role with Council of Ministers • track progress at PreLex http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/apcnet.cfm?CL=en

  9. EUR-Lex http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm

  10. EUR-Lex Search Screen sea

  11. EUR-LEX searching • Allows searching by type of material (treaty, legislation, case-law) • Allows searching by type of document (e.g., for legislation- regulation, directive)

  12. EUR-LEX record

  13. EUR-LEX record (con’t)

  14. National Execution Measures (implementation by members)

  15. Tracking national implementation • N-Lex --EU database giving access to national laws • LexisNexis database:National Provisions Implementing Directives • EUR-LEX search --National Execution Measures • Search in national legislation databases, using number or title of directive • Search national legislation by subject • Don’t assume countries will abide by deadlines in the directives

  16. N-LEX • New, doesn’t always work well • Use EuroVoc to find foreign terms

  17. Directory of European Union consolidated legislation

  18. Directory of European Union consolidated legislation: Competition policy

  19. consolidated legislation: continued

  20. Summaries of EU Legislation • Subject arrangement • Starting point • May be more intuitive for US lawyers • http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/index_en.htm

  21. “Summaries” continued

  22. European Commission “Policies”:another finding approach • http://ec.europa.eu/policies/index_en.htm

  23. EU Court of Justice • interpret treaties, other EU law • decisions bind only the parties • “no precedential effect” • can invalidate national legislation

  24. ECJ site: Search form for cases

  25. Results list

  26. EUR-LEX for cases • Better than CURIA search & goes back further (Curia, 1997; EUR-LEX, 1954) • Can restrict search to Adv.-Gen ops, judgments, orders, etc. • Remember to click radio button to search more than title

More Related