This is an in-depth and comprehensive set of notes on EU Law. It covers EU Membership and withdrawal, treaty amendment, law-making in the EU, general principles and fundamental rights, relationship between national law and EU law, free movement of goods, free movement of persons, remedies in EU law...
EU MEMBERSHIP AND WITHDRAWAL; TREATY AMENDMENT.................13
Introduction to the EU.........................................................................................................................................13
Legal characterisation........................................................................................................................................13
Central themes to the development of the EEC to the EU.................................................................................13
History of the EU’s development.......................................................................................................................14
Key institutions..................................................................................................................................................14
THE EU HAS A VISION OF FOUR FREEDOMS: FREE MOVEMENT OF
GOODS, SERVICES, CAPITAL AND LABOUR..........................................14
Accession, Suspension and Withdrawal.............................................................................................................16
Accession..........................................................................................................................................................16
HOWEVER, IN 1993 THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL LAID DOWN THE
‘COPENHAGEN CRITERIA’ FOR ACCESSION:.........................................16
Suspension.........................................................................................................................................................16
Withdrawal.........................................................................................................................................................17
State-centred vs EU-driven................................................................................................................................18
European integration..........................................................................................................................................18
Reform, Revisions and Referendums.................................................................................................................19
Background........................................................................................................................................................19
Current process..................................................................................................................................................19
THE ORDINARY REVISION PROCEDURE IS FORMALISED IN ART 48(2)-(5)
TEU:.................................................................................................19
Domestic treaty approval...................................................................................................................................20
Evaluation..........................................................................................................................................................21
LAW-MAKING IN THE EU: COMPETENCE AND CONSTITUTIONAL
CONSTRAINTS..................................................................................22
Sources of Law......................................................................................................................................................22
EU LAW DERIVES FROM PRIMARY AND SECONDARY LAW, WITHIN WHICH
THERE IS A HIERARCHY OF NORMS....................................................22
Primary law........................................................................................................................................................22
Secondary law....................................................................................................................................................22
ALL THESE ARE FOUND IN ART 288 TFEU............................................22
Hierarchy of Norms...........................................................................................................................................24
Conferral...............................................................................................................................................................24
Types of EU competence...................................................................................................................................25
Choice of legal basis..........................................................................................................................................26
Subsidiarity and Proportionality in practice.....................................................................................................29
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