By Robert Schütze
The eu Union has existed for over part a century. Having began because the 'Europe of the Six' in a selected business zone, the Union at the present time has twenty-seven Member States and acts inside just about all parts of social existence. The Union's constitutional constructions have developed in parallel with this colossal development. Born as a world company, the Union has built right into a constitutional Union of States. This textbook analyses the constitutional legislations of the ecu Union after Lisbon in a transparent and dependent means. interpreting the ecu via a vintage constitutional point of view, it explores the entire vital issues of the path: from the background and constitution of the Union, the powers and methods of its branches of presidency, to the rights and treatments of ecu electorate. a transparent three-part constitution and various illustrations will facilitate figuring out. serious and complete, this can be required studying for all scholars of eu constitutional legislations.
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Bundesamt für Finanzen, [1996] ECR I-4845 402 Case C-68/95, T. Port GmbH & Co. KG v. Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung, [1996] ECR I-6065 287 Case C-84/95, Bosphorus Hava Yollari Turizm ve Ticaret AS v. Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications and others, [1996] ECR I-3953 420 Case C-122/95, Germany v. Council (Bananas), [1998] ECR I-973 268 Case C-168/95, Arcaro, [1996] ECR I-4705 333 Case C-177/95, Ebony Maritime et al. v. , [1997] ECR I-1111 320 Case C-299/95, Kremzow v.
Parliament and Council, [2003] ECR I-937 267 Case C-383/00, Commission v. Germany, [2002] ECR I-4219 285 Case C-438/00, Deutscher Handballbund eV v. Maros Kolpak, [2003] ECR I-4135 341 xxxii Table of Cases Case 453/00, Kühne & Heitz v. Productschap voor Pluimvee en Eieren, [2004] ECR I-837 300–1 Case 76/01P, Eurocoton et al. v. Council, [2003] ECR I-10091 271 Case C-103/01 Commission v. Germany, [2003] ECR I-5369 183 Case C-218/01, Henkel v. Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, [2004] ECR I-1725 331, 384 Case C-224/01, Köbler v.
But was not the 2004 Constitutional Treaty called ‘Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe’? And has the Council of Europe a better claim to be ‘European law’ in light of a membership that stretches beyond Europe? In the following study, European Union law will thus be referred to as ‘European law’. The lack of a common vocabulary within the European legal order is, indeed, most striking with regard to what is meant by ‘secondary legislation’. Even the most seasoned European lawyers including the Court continue to refer to acts adopted on the basis of the Treaties as ‘secondary legislation’, or worse: use ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ legislation interchangeably.