Understanding EU Law: Objectives, Principles and Methods of Community Law

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Intersentia nv, 2003 - 366 pages
This unique book is not an introduction to European Law. It provides an understanding of methodology, objectives and principles of EU law. It tries to explain its legal peculiarities, particularly with regard to the concept of internal market. It takes as starting point its liberal roots enshrined in the free movement, competition and autonomy provisions, but focuses equally on the development of countervailing principles about citizenship, adequate standards, and governance. It refers selectively to important secondary law, in particular directives, and to leading cases of the European Court of Justice. It is directed at all law scholars, students, practitioners, political scientists, in the old and new Member countries of the EU as well as third countries who want to understand what EU law is all about. It will allow the reader a first orientation, without suffocating him or her in too much detail.
 

Contents

COMMUNITY LAW AS THE PATTERN
3
Table of Contents
5
SOURCES AND METHODS OF COMMUNITY LAW
13
COMMUNITY AND MEMBER STATE LAW
36
CITIZENSHIP AND FREE MOVEMENT
53
PRESENT
70
CITIZENSHIP FREE MOVEMENT NEW MEMBER STATES
79
OPEN MARKETS
91
of Directive 9944
230
JUDICIAL PROTECTION
239
AUTONOMY
265
AUTONOMY IN SECONDARY LAW INSTRUMENTS
279
17 INFORMATION AND AUTONOMY
294
GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
303
19 GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF MEMBER
321
20 GOVERNANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY OF UNDERTAKINGS
330

SAFEGUARDING FREE AND FAIR COMPETITION 1
92
FREE MOVEMENT 2 THE EC AND ITS LEGISLATIVE
123
PROTECTING
165
ADEQUATE STANDARDS
185
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
209
LEGITIMATE EXPECTATIONS
222
21 GOVERNANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY OF CITIZENS
347
CASE REGISTER
353
TABLE OF SECONDARY LEGISLATION
381
TABLE OF EQUIVALENCES BETWEEN THE EU AND EC TREATIES
391
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