EU Law

Question 1

The first founding Treaty was:

Answer 1

Treaty on the Coal and Steel Community

Question 2

The European Union was created:

Answer 2

On the basis the Maastricht Treaty of 1992

Question 3

The citizenship of the European Union was introduced:

Answer 3

By the Maastricht Treaty of 1992

Question 4

The European Union in comparison to other organizations (e.g. WIPO, WTO) is peculiar because it is:

Answer 4

supranational organization

Question 5

Choose the correct answers: the principle of proportionality

Answer 5

governs the use of EU competences

sets limits on EU institutions for interference with fundamental rights

is applied to all categories of EU competences

Question 6

Principle of subsidiarity (subsidiarity) as a principle of EU law:

Answer 6

refers only to the fields covered by the non-exclusive competence of the European Union

Question 7

Enhanced cooperation was introduced:

Answer 7

In the Treaty of Amsterdam, 1999

Question 8

Enhanced cooperation may be established:

Answer 8

In the area of non-exclusive competences of the EU

Question 9

Outside the common foreign and security policy authorisation to proceed with the enhanced cooperation shall be granted by

Answer 9

Decision of the Commission

Question 10

Enhanced cooperation:

Answer 10

Is open for any Member State that wishes to participate in enhanced cooperation in progress

Question 11

Acts adopted in the framework of enhanced cooperation:

Answer 11

Bind only participating Member States

Question 12

The Court of Justice of the European Union initially objected to the creation of the Unified patent Court because:

Answer 12

the envisaged agreement creating a Unified Patent Litigation System (named European and Community Patents Court) it presented a threat to the preservation of the very nature of European Union law

Question 13

The European Parliament:

Answer 13

Is co-legislative power, together with the Council of the European Union

Question 14

The sources of EU primary law include:

Answer 14

accession treaties

Question 15

Regulation as a source of Union law:

Answer 15

• is directly applicable

- shall be binding in its entirety

Question 16

The decision as EU legal act:

Answer 16

shall bind in entirety

Question 17

The principle of the primacy of EU law:

Answer 17

imposes an obligation on Member State authorities to disregard the application of a provision of a national law contrary to EU law

Question 18

The court of a Member State, if it finds that a national law is incompatible with EU law, should:

Answer 18

omit the norm of national law when deciding

Question 19

Members of the European Commission:

Answer 19

is independent from the EU and the nationals of their governments.

Question 20

What kind of documents used to prepared EU legislation and include:

Answer 20

Commission legislative proposals
• Council positions
• Legislative proposals from the European Parliament
• Opinions from the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the
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