EU Law I: Special legal order

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Institutional legal principles

• ECJ in Van Gend and Loos (1963) and Costa/ENEL (1964):
  • Van Gend and Loos: new legal order, Community law confers rights on the individual
  • Costa/ENEL: supremacy and autonomy of EC law, legal order creates its own legal system which binds the MS and its nationals
• Consequences
  • Supranational entity (van Gend and Loos and Costa/ENEL cases)

1. Autonomous legal order (see function of institutions and ECJ)
2. EC law independent from international and national law (see supremacy and direct effect)
3. Dynamic nature of EC law: effet utile principle

• Direct effect

References & Links

Lecture Slides covering this topic

• Lecture 7

See also

• EU Law I
• Exam 2008