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Who coordinates the general economic policies of MS?
Council
Who is Justus Lipsius?
A Belgian humanist
was the headquarters of the Council of the European Union
Nordic Council Members
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have been members of the Nordic Council of Ministers since 1971. Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland
Sevilla council 2002
Reduced council formations from 16 to 9
COuncil formations
1General Affairs;
2Foreign Affairs;
3Economic and Financial Affairs;
4Justice and Internal Affairs; 5Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs; 6Competitiveness;
7Transport, Telecommunications and Energy;
8Agriculture and Fisheries; 9Environment;
10Education, Youth and Culture.
The ‘General Affairs’ Council coordinates the work of the different Council formations, with the Commission’s help.
Competitiveness Council
Four major policy areas: internal market, industry, research and innovation and space.
Merger in the context of single market
SG of Council
Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen
assist the Council and to manage the GSC.
appointed by the Council.
administrative management
takes part in Council meetings as appropriate.
also the Secretary-General of the European Council.
Mertens group
The work of Coreper I is prepared by the ‘Mertens Group’.
Informal group helps to form an initial idea of the positions that the various member state delegations will take at the Coreper meeting.
Antici group
The work of Coreper II is prepared by the ‘Antici Group’. This informal group helps to form an initial idea of the positions that the various member state delegations will take at the Coreper meeting.
PETERSBERG TASKS
These tasks were set out in the Petersberg Declaration adopted at the Ministerial Council of the Western European Union (WEU) in June 1992.
On that occasion, the WEU member countries declared their readiness to make available to the WEU, but also to NATO and the EU, military units from the whole spectrum of their conventional armed forces.
From then on, they have covered:
humanitarian and rescue tasks; conflict prevention and peace-keeping tasks; tasks of combat forces in crisis management, including peacemaking; joint disarmament operations; military advice and assistance tasks; post-conflict stabilisation tasks.
Kupferberg case
FTA direclty applicable in MS
Signature of EP Pres and Council Pres for directives and decisions required?
Yes, before publication in the official journal
Date of effect of regulation,directives and decisions
As specified or on the 20th after publication
Current Pres of CJEU
Koen Lenaerts,
of cases at General Court
2018: the record number of 1,009 completed cases,
of cases at Court of Justice
2018: record at 760
EFTA court: What is it?
A supranational judicial body responsible for the three EFTA members who are also members of the European Economic Area (EEA): Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
EFTA court when established ?
1994
EFTA court seat?
Luxembourg
EFTA court judges
3+six adhoc. 3 judges for 6 renewable years
European Court of Human Rights: Jurisdictions
The jurisdiction of the court has been recognized to date by all 47 member states of the Council of Europe.
European Court of Human Rights: working language
English
European Court of Human Rights: seat
Strasbourg
European Court of Human Rights: founding year
1959, permanent: On 1 November 1998, the court became a full-time institution and the European Commission of Human Rights, which used to decide on admissibility of applications, was abolished
Shared Union competences
(a) internal market;
(b) social policy, for the aspects defined in this Treaty;
(c) economic, social and territorial cohesion;
(d) agriculture and fisheries, excluding the conservation of marine biological resources;
(e) environment;
(f) consumer protection;
(g) transport;
(h) trans-European networks;
(i) energy;
(j) area of freedom, security and justice;
(k) common safety concerns in public health matters, for the aspects defined in this Treaty.
Exclusive Union competences
(a) customs union;
(b) the establishing of the competition rules necessary for the functioning of the internal market;
(c) monetary policy for the Member States whose currency is the euro;
(d) the conservation of marine biological resources under the common fisheries policy;
(e) common commercial policy.
Supporting Union competences
(a) protection and improvement of human health;
(b) industry;
(c) culture;
(d) tourism;
(e) education, vocational training, youth and sport;
(f) civil protection;
(g) administrative cooperation.
Gebhard case
1995 the freedom of establishment in the European Union.
Marschall case
1997 EU labour law case concerning positive action.
Bosman case
1995: banned restrictions on foreign players in football
Martinez-Sala case
1998: the free movement of citizens in the European Union.
Who can issue directives?
EP, COM, and Council
Casagrande case
1974 about discrimination extended to persons in the education system
Court of First Instance est.
in 1989 to help individuals, strenghted under Nice, renamed General Court under ToL
Declaration in the context of legislation
Views of all or individual Council members regarding the intepretation of the decision
