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EU SUPREMACY
- Van Grend en Loos
- Costa v ENEL :estb of the principle of S.
- Reactions of national Courts
- France
- Cour de Cassation:Directeur General de douanes
- Conseil d' Etat: Semoules: not willing to follow the principle
- Raoul George Nicolo: reliance on French Constitution -
not compliant with the principle [see also Arcelor 8]
- Rothmans and Arizona Tobacco & Philip Morris: full acceptance of the principle
- Rothmans and Arizona Tobacco & Philip Morris: full acceptance of the principle
- Raoul George Nicolo: reliance on French Constitution -
not compliant with the principle [see also Arcelor 8]
- Cour de Cassation:Directeur General de douanes
- Germany
- Honeywell: The EU Law can only develop effectively if
it supplants contrary MS law
- Limits to the acceptance of the principle
- So Lange I: the Court will apply the principle so long
as does not undermine the F. F
- So Lange II: no longer apply the limitation
- So Lange II: no longer apply the limitation
- So Lange I: the Court will apply the principle so long
as does not undermine the F. F
- Limits to the German Constitutional Court’s acceptance of the principle
of supremacy relating to EU competences
- Brunner v EU
- Court will not apply the principle of supremacy in cases
where EU has no competences
- Court will not apply the principle of supremacy in cases
where EU has no competences
- BVerfGE
- Ger Const Court: would refuse to apply supremacy where
supremacy infringed a national constitutional identity
- 1) criminal law 2)war and peace 3) welfare (social sphere)
4) religion 5) public expenditure and taxation
- 1) criminal law 2)war and peace 3) welfare (social sphere)
4) religion 5) public expenditure and taxation
- Ger Const Court: would refuse to apply supremacy where
supremacy infringed a national constitutional identity
- Brunner v EU
- Honeywell: The EU Law can only develop effectively if
it supplants contrary MS law
- Italy
- Protection of fundamental principles enshrined in the Italian constitution:
Frontini v Ministero delle Finanze
- Granital v Amministrazione delle Finanze. - similar limitation on Fundamental rights protected in Italian
constitution - if giving precedent EU law- fundamental right in constitution- supremacy will not apply
- Protection of fundamental principles enshrined in the Italian constitution:
Frontini v Ministero delle Finanze
- UK
- Acceptance of the principle but issues: Parliamentary
sovereignty; incorporation of int'l law in domestic legal order
- Factorame
- Factorame
- Acceptance of the principle but issues: Parliamentary
sovereignty; incorporation of int'l law in domestic legal order
- Poland:
- European arrest warrant: common for MS to amend constitution
- where faced with a conflict EU law and constitutional provision -SHOULD NOT Assume that EU law will prevail
take precedent over constitutional -legal authority of constitution SUPREME NORM- resolve the matter with
interpretation- conflicting constitutional provision interpret in a manner consistent with the EU law and therefore
supremacy will not be a matter- but its impossible to avoid conflicts
- European arrest warrant: common for MS to amend constitution
- France
- Options: 1) amend constitution - constitent with the EU law - transfer competences to the EU law 2) amend
the EU provision concerned - more complex- may need agreement of majority of MS 3)Exit the EU
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