Competencies

Question 1

Exclusive competencies EU

Answer 1

Customs Union
Competition
Monetary Policy for member states whose currency is the euro;
Marine resources conservation under common fisheries policy
Trade = commercial policy
international agreements

Question 2

shared competencies (Art. Xx TFEU)

Answer 2

internal market
social policy
cohesion
agriculture and Fisheries
environment
consumer protection
transport
trans European networks
energy
freedom, security, justice
public health
research
space
development cooperation
humanitarian aid

Question 3

Supporting competencies (Art. 6 TFEU)

Answer 3

Human health
industry
culture
tourism
education, vocational training, youth and sport
civil protection
administrative cooperation

Question 4

coordination of national policies (Art. X TFEU)

Answer 4

Art. 5 TFEU

economic (specific provisions for Euro MS)
employment
some social

Question 5

cooperation EU and MS

Answer 5

foreign and security policy

Question 6

Exclusive competences

Answer 6

1. Custom Union
2. Competition
3. Monetary policy in the Euro areas
4. Conservation of marine biological resources under the common fisheries policy
5. Trade

+ conclude international agreements in specific cases set out in Article 3(2) TFEU

Question 7

Shared competences

Answer 7

Shared competence when the treaty confers a competence and that competence is not listed in Articles 3 and 6 TFEU

Principal areas:

1. internal market
2. social policy as defined in the treaties
3. Cohesion (economic, social, territorial)
4. Agriculture and fisheries
5. Environment
6. Consumer protection
7. Transport
8. TEN (trans-European networks)
9. Energy
10. AFSJ (area of freedom, security, and justice)
11. Safety concerns in public health matters as defined in the treaties

Shared competences not preventing MSs to excercize it too:
(see Article 2(2) TFEU, stating as a general rule that MSs can only exercise a area of a shared competence if the EU did not)

• research, technological development, and space
• development cooperation and humanitarian aid.

Question 8

Competence to carry out actions to support, coordinate, or supplement

Answer 8

1. Protection an improvement of human health
2. Industry
3. Culture
4. Tourism
5. Education, vocational training, youth and sport
6. Civil protection
7. Administrative cooperation