ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Enel, European Union Legislative Procedure, Common Foreign And Security Policy
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Implied powers doctrine icj reparations: nature of eu law and decision making. Context: the eu as international organisation, created by member states. Decisionmaking unanimity vs qmv: the european council. Interaction with the president of the european commission: the european parliament. Nowadays mainly ordinary legislative procedure: ordinary legislative procedure: Monnet"s high authority: the court of auditors. Basically, the union"s accountant: the european central bank. Original eec treaty was silent on the matter of the nature of eec (later eu) law. Diversity with regard to monism & dualism in the different member states: van gend & loos. Power to act: no general legislative competence, principle of conferred powers (legal basis), art. 5(2) teu: under the principle of conferral, the union shall act only within the limits of the competences conferred upon it by the member states in the treaties to attain the objectives set out therein. In general very specific legal bases: art.