ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Subsidiarity, Process Art, General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade
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Establishment of the union - member states needed to transfer some of their sovereign rights to the union & its institutions for them to be able to carry out their tasks. Member states: providing the competences for the union to make their own laws. Any power that the communities & union have been provided is only there by virtue of the transfer by the member states. Union: only an incomplete external competence no single union body that makes law & represents the union externally (high representative) Division of competences between member states & the union and exercised by the institutions. Division of competence/power between the central body and the constituent parts of the state/organisation. Nothing done the union institutions that isn"t expressly permitted by the treaties. Vertical division of competences: between the member states and the eu horizontal division: between the eu institutions. Member states: have no longer competences in the fields transferred.
