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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299865203321

Autore

Engel Annegret

Titolo

The Choice of Legal Basis for Acts of the European Union : Competence Overlaps, Institutional Preferences, and Legal Basis Litigation / / by Annegret Engel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-030-00274-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 pages)

Disciplina

323.14

Soggetti

Law—Europe

Law—Philosophy

Law

European Union

European Law

Fundamentals of Law

European Union Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Conflicts between the Union's different types of competences -- The choice of legal instrument - a choice of legal basis? -- The choice of legislative procedure - a matter of institutional preference? -- The sui generis nature of external competences -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides the first comprehensive discussion of conflicts between legal bases in EU law. It fills an important gap in the existing literature on the choice of legal basis in EU law by analysing the structure of legal bases and the resulting legal basis litigation in the European Union, thus identifying areas of conflict produced by overlapping competences, divergent inter-institutional interests, and inconsistencies in the courts’ judgements. While certain cases have been discussed extensively in academic literature (e.g. Tobacco Advertising, ECOWAS), there has been little analysis of the general underlying criteria and principles governing the choice of legal basis on



the part of European institutions. Such an analysis has, however, become necessary in order to better understand and possibly predict judicial outcomes, and to identify flaws in the current legislative framework.