EU Law and National Law Flashcards
Van Gend En Loos
Treaty articles have direct effect
Must be clear, precise, and unconditional
Defrenne
Treaty articles have horizontal direct effect against a private body
Lutticke
Positive and negative treaty articles both have direct effect
Costa v ENEL
Supremacy of EU law
State can only act unilaterally when expressly granted the right to do so by a treaty
Handelsgesellschaft
Supremacy of EU law over national constitutional law
Simmenthal
National court must not wait for a conflicting measure of national law to be set aside by a national authority
Cooperativa Agricola
Unconditional = not qualified by any further subject/condition in its implementation Precise = sets out an obligation in unequivocal terms
Antonio Munoz
Regulations have horizontal and vertical direct effect
Fratelli
Local/regional authorities are emanations of the state
Becker
Tax authorities are emanations of the state
Johnstone
Police forces are emanations of the state
Berlusconi
A directive in and of itself cannot be relied upon to determine or aggravate criminal liability
Van Duyn
Directives are capable of having direct effect (clear, precise and unconditional)
Francovich & Bonifaci
Member States are required to make good the loss sustained by an individual as a result of their breach of EU law
Must grant rights to individuals
Must be possible to identify the right on the basis of the provisions of the legislation
Must be a causal link between breach and loss
Franz Grad
Regulations have direct effect
Decisions have direct effect
Grimaldi
Recommendations and opinions cannot have direct effect
Ratti
A directive can have direct effect once the implementation date has passed and the member state has not adopted the directive
Marshall
Directives do not have horizontal direct effect
Directives do have direct effect vertically and against public authorities
Azienda Agricola
Regulations have direct effect
Must be clear, precise and unconditional