PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Enel, European Central Bank, European Union Legislative Procedure

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 005
• Professor: Jibai

Document Summary

Nature of eu law, powers to act and decision & law-making procedures. Features (similarities with international law: created by treaties, evolution through treaty amendments, member states decide, eu can only regulate those areas in which has been conferred powers by the ms, eu law regulates cross-border activities. Features (differences with international law: own supranational institutions (permanent institutions, they make decision and produce law, ms may be bound even with no consent (qmv, citizens are directly represented in the european parliament, jurisdiction of cjeu. System of individual judicial protection: direct enforcement of eu law by individuals, primacy of eu law over national law. European legal order was a new type, and the subject are not only ms but also their nationals: direct enforcement of eu law by citizens before national courts, conditions of direct effect. In case of conflict between eu law and national law: precedence of application of eu law (primacy of eu law)