Procedural Autonomy of EU Member States: Paradise Lost? A Study on t
Is the procedural autonomy of EU Member State a myth or a reality? What should this concept be taken to mean? Starting from the analysis of requirements and principles regulating, generally speaking, the relationships between Member States’ and EU law, th
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Diana-Urania Galetta
Procedural Autonomy of EU Member States: Paradise Lost? A Study on the “Functionalized Procedural Competence” of EU Member States
Diana-Urania Galetta Universita` degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento giuridico-politico Via Conservatorio 7 20122 Milano Italy [email protected]
First publication D.U. Galetta, L’autonomia procedurale degli Stati membri dell’Unione europea: Paradise Lost? G. Giappichelli Editore s.r.l.(2009)
ISBN 978-3-642-12546-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-12547-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-12547-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010932034 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010, Corrected printing 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Foreword
This volume deals with a fundamental dichotomy which governs the existing system of European Union Law. On the one hand, it is a precondition of a functioning Union that its substantive law should be guaranteed in a uniform manner throughout the Union and it should prevail over the law of the Member States. On the other hand, European Union law is not only executed and interpreted by EU institutions. On the contrary, it is in principle left to national authorities and jurisdictions to handle it in accordance with the procedural rules of the respective Member States. The latter phenomenon is referred to as the principle of procedural autonomy of the Member States of the European Union. Naturally, this principle may come into conflict with the demands of uniformity of European Union law not only in theory. The numerous c
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