EU LAW
COURSE OVERVIEW
Bundle 1: European integration: drivers and phrases
Chapter 1 Introduction
- Section 1: Introduction; 2 The development of EU law; 3 Themes; 3.1 Input legitimacy; 3.2 Output
legitimacy, 4 Conclusion (pp 1-9).
- Chapter 4: Constitutionalism and the European Union
- Section 6 Liberal constitutionalism II: fundamental rights; 6.1 Fundamental rights as ‘general principles’, 6.2
The Eu Charter of Fundamental Rights (pp 95-98).
- Chapter 2: Development of the EU:
- Section 5.4 Charter of Rights (pp 25-26); Section 6.3 Lisbon Treaty (excluding Case Study 2.1 Negotiation of
the Lisbon Treaty); 6.3.1 Form; 6.3.2 Substance; (pp 28-30).
- Chapter 27: Brexit: The Legal Dimension
- Section 1 Introduction, Section 2 Withdrawing from the EU pre-Lisbon; 2.1 Public International Law; 2.2.
The European Union; Section 3 Article 50 TEU: the decision to withdraw; 3.2 ‘Constitutional requirements’;
3.4. Had a decision been taken?; 3.5 The timing of notification; 3.6 Can notification be withdrawn? Section 4
Article 50: withdrawal negotiations; 4.1 The article 50 process (pp 865-877)
Legislation
● Treaty on European Union (TEU) Articles 1-3, 6-7, 47, 49-51
● Treaty on the Functioning of the European (TFEU) Articles 1, 26
● Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFR) Preamble + Articles 47, 51-54
Case law
● C-621/18 Wightman and Others, 10 December 2018. ECLI:EU:C:2018:999. Summary available at:
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=210666&pageIndex=0&doclang=en
&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=534276.
Bundle 2: The Legislative Function in the EU
Chapter 3: The EU’s political institutions, p 40-74, excluding Case Study 3.1 The Irish Council Presidency
of 2013 (pp 64-66).
- Chapter 5: Legislating in the European Union.
- Section 1: Introduction. Section 2: Forms of Legislative and other normative acts, 2.1
Regulations, 2.2 Directives (pp 100-104).
- Section 3: Hierarchy of norms (pp 107-108).
- Section 4: Competence and conferral, 4.1 ‘Competence’ as ability and ‘competence’ as power,
4.2 Conferral, 4.3 Grants of legislative power (‘legal bases’), 4.4 Classification of competences,
4.4.1 Exclusive competence, 4.4.2 Shared Competences, 4.4.3 Ancillary (or ‘complementary’)
competences (pp 108-114).
- Section 5: Subsidiarity, 5.1 The subsidiarity test, 5.2 Protocol No 2: the ‘early warning
mechanism’ (pp 115-117); Section 5.4: Judicial Review of compliance with the subsidiary test
(pp 119- 121).
- Section 6: Proportionality (pp 121-122) excluding Case Study 5.1 Vodafone (p. 122).
- Section 7: Legislative and other decision-making procedures, 7.1 Legislative and assimilated
procedures, 7.1.1 The ordinary legislative procedure (pp 123-127) 7.2 Special Legislative
procedures, 7.3 Innominate non-legislative procedures (INPs) (pp 127-129).
,- Section 8: Delegated and implementing acts, 8.1 Delegated acts, (pp 130-131); 8.1.3 Limitations
on delegation and the identification of delegated acts (p 132), 8.2 Implementing acts (p 132)
Legislation
● Articles 3-5, 9-19, TEU
● Articles 1-6, Articles 223-250, 288-290 TFEU
● Protocol (No 1) on the Role of National Parliaments in the European Union [2008] OJ C 115/203
● Protocol (No. 2) on the Application of the Principles of Subsidiarity and Proportionality attached
to the Treaties [2008] OJ C 115/206.
Bundle 3: The effects of EU law in the national legal systems of EU MS
Chapter 6: The effects of EU Law in the national legal systems:
- Section 1 Introduction (pp 151-152).
- Section 2 EU Law in the Member States: institutions, procedures, principles; 2.1 National rules,
unless ...; 2.2 The not-so autonomous national procedural autonomy; 2.3 From
equivalence/effectiveness to the principle of effective judicial protection (pp 152-157).
- Section 4 Direct effect; 4.1 Van Gend en Loos; 4.2 The conditions and the real test; 4.3 Direct
effect in action; 4.4 Differentiation I: types of legal acts; 4.4.1 Treaty and Charter provisions, 4.4.2
Regulations; 4.5 Differentiation II: types of legal relationship; 4.6 No horizontal direct
effect of directives: the rule and the exceptions (pp 160-171).
- Section 5: Indirect Effect; 5.1 The notion; 5.2 The scope; 5.3 Interpretation unbounded?; 5.4
Introducing some limits (pp 171-177).
- Section 6: Primacy; 6.1 The Court’s view; 6.1.1 Costa; 6.1.2 The scope and effect of primacy; (pp
177-180).
- Section 7: State liability (pp 185-186)
Legislation
● Article 288 TFEU
Case law
● Case C-26/62 Van Gend en Loos, 5 February 1963, ECLI:EU:C:1963:1. Available at: https://eur-
lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61962CJ0026.
● Case C-6/64 Costa v. ENEL, 15 July 1964, ECLI:EU:C:1964:66. Summary available at: https://eur-
lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61964CJ0006.
● Case 106/77, Amministrazione delle finanze v Simmenthal, 9 March 1978, ECLI:EU:C:1978:49. (paras 13-
26). Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61977CJ0106.
● Case 41/74, Van Duyn v Home Office, 4 December 1974, ECLI:EU:C:1974:133 (paras 16-24). Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A61974CJ0041.
● Case 148/78, Ratti, 5 April 1979, ECLI:EU:C:1979:110 (paras 18- 27, and 39-47). Available at: https://eur-
lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61978CJ0148.
● Case C-8/81 Becker, 19 January 1982, ECLI:EU:C:1982:7 (paras 17-25, and 37-40). Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61981CJ0008.
● Case 152/84, Marshall, 26 February 1986, ECLI:EU:C:1986:84 (paras 36, and 38, and 48-56). available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/GA/TXT/?uri=CELEX:61984CJ0152.
● C-188/89, Foster and Others, 2 July 1990, ECLI:EU:C:1990:313 (paras 1-10, 16-22). Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61989CJ0188.
● Case 14/83 Von Colson and Kamann v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, 10 April 1984, ECLI:EU:C:1984:153
(paras, 16-19, and 22-24, and 26-28). Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61983CJ0014.
Bundle 4: Internal market
, Chapter 11: The internal market and the philosophies of market integration
o Section 1 Introduction; Section 2 The nature of the internal market: three models; 2.1
Three models of market integration; 2.2 The implications of the different models;
2.2.1 Consequences for sovereignty; 2.2 Institutional consequences; 2.2.3 Welfare
considerations; 2.2.4 Democratic concerns (pp 336-342).
o Section 4 The law of the internal market: the power to harmonize; 4.1 The power;
Case Study 11. 2 Tobacco advertising; 4.2 The exceptions (pp 354- 362).
o Section 5 The law of the internal market: the types of harmonization; Section 6
Conclusion (pp 362-364).
TFEU: Article 4, 26, 114, (263)
Case C- 376/98, Germany v EP and Council of the European Union [Tobacco Advertising] 5 October 2000,
ECLI:EU:C:2000:544. Summary available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61998CJ0376Links to an external site.
Bundle 5: Free movement of goods
• Chapter 12: Free movements of goods
o Section 1 Introduction; Section2 The customs union; 2.1 The concept of a customs
union; 2.2 Goods originating in a Member State and goods in free circulation;
Section 3 The meaning of ‘goods’; Section 4 Nationality and residence; (pp 366-
369).
o Section 5 Customs duties and Charges of equivalent effect; 5.1 Customs duties; 5.2
Charges of equivalent effect; 5.3 Permissible charges; 5.3.1 Services rendered; 5.3.2
Inspections required by EU law; 5.4 Charges imposed at the internal boundaries of
Member States; 5.5 Remedies (pp 370-373).
o Section 7: Discriminatory or protective internal taxation (pp 390-395).
TFEU: 26-31, 110.
• Case 24/68, Commission v Italy (Compilation of statistical data) 1 July 1969,
ECLI:EU:C:1969:29. Summary available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61968CJ0024Links to an external site..
• Case 18/87, Commission v Germany (Check on animals’ health), 27 September 1988
ECLI:EU:C:1988:453. Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61987CJ0018&from=ENLinks to an
external site.
• Case 168/78, Commission v France (Neutrality of internal taxation), 27 February 1980,
ECLI:EU:C:1980:51. Summary available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61978CJ0168&from=ENLinks to an
external site..
, Bundle 6: Free movement of goods
• Chapter 12: Free movements of goods
o Section 2.2 Goods originating in a Member State and goods in free circulation;
Section 3 The meaning of ‘goods’; Section 4 Nationality and residence; (pp 368-
369).
Compulsory Readings
• Chapter 12: Free movements of goods
o Section 6 Quantitative restrictions and measures of equivalent effect; 6.1
Quantitative restrictions: imports and exports; 6.2 Measures of equivalent effect:
imports; 6.2.1 The definition; (pp 373- 380); Section 6.2.3 Some examples of MEEs
on imports; 6.3 Measures of equivalent effect: exports; 6.4 Purely national measures.
6.5 Justification under Article 36 and the mandatory requirements; 6.5.1 Justification
under Article 36; 6.5.2 The status of the mandatory requirements; 6.5.3 The general
principles governing Article 36 TFEU; 6.5.4 The grounds of justification. 6.6
Remedies (pp 382-390).
TFEU: 26-31, 110.
Case 8/74, Dassonville, 11 July 1974, ECLI:EU:C:1974:82. Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61974CJ0008&from=ENLinks to an
external site.
• Case 120/78 REWE (Cassis de Dijon), 20 February 1979, ECLI:EU:C:1979:42. Available
at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61978CJ0120&from=NLLinks to an external site.
• Case 207/83 Commission v UK (Indication of origin) 25 April 1985
ECLI:EU:C:1985:161. Summary available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61983CJ0207&from=ENLinks to an
external site..
• Case 249/81, Commission v Ireland (Buy Irish) 24 November 1982
ECLI:EU:C:1982:402. Summary available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61981CJ0249&from=ENLinks to an
external site.
• Case 40/82, Commission v UK (Poultry and protection of health) 15 July 1982
ECLI:EU:C:1982:285. Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61982CJ0040(01)&from=ENLinks to an
external site.
• Case 178/84 European Commission v Germany (Beer Purity), 12 March 1987,
ECLI:EU:C:1987:126. Available at:
COURSE OVERVIEW
Bundle 1: European integration: drivers and phrases
Chapter 1 Introduction
- Section 1: Introduction; 2 The development of EU law; 3 Themes; 3.1 Input legitimacy; 3.2 Output
legitimacy, 4 Conclusion (pp 1-9).
- Chapter 4: Constitutionalism and the European Union
- Section 6 Liberal constitutionalism II: fundamental rights; 6.1 Fundamental rights as ‘general principles’, 6.2
The Eu Charter of Fundamental Rights (pp 95-98).
- Chapter 2: Development of the EU:
- Section 5.4 Charter of Rights (pp 25-26); Section 6.3 Lisbon Treaty (excluding Case Study 2.1 Negotiation of
the Lisbon Treaty); 6.3.1 Form; 6.3.2 Substance; (pp 28-30).
- Chapter 27: Brexit: The Legal Dimension
- Section 1 Introduction, Section 2 Withdrawing from the EU pre-Lisbon; 2.1 Public International Law; 2.2.
The European Union; Section 3 Article 50 TEU: the decision to withdraw; 3.2 ‘Constitutional requirements’;
3.4. Had a decision been taken?; 3.5 The timing of notification; 3.6 Can notification be withdrawn? Section 4
Article 50: withdrawal negotiations; 4.1 The article 50 process (pp 865-877)
Legislation
● Treaty on European Union (TEU) Articles 1-3, 6-7, 47, 49-51
● Treaty on the Functioning of the European (TFEU) Articles 1, 26
● Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFR) Preamble + Articles 47, 51-54
Case law
● C-621/18 Wightman and Others, 10 December 2018. ECLI:EU:C:2018:999. Summary available at:
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=210666&pageIndex=0&doclang=en
&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=534276.
Bundle 2: The Legislative Function in the EU
Chapter 3: The EU’s political institutions, p 40-74, excluding Case Study 3.1 The Irish Council Presidency
of 2013 (pp 64-66).
- Chapter 5: Legislating in the European Union.
- Section 1: Introduction. Section 2: Forms of Legislative and other normative acts, 2.1
Regulations, 2.2 Directives (pp 100-104).
- Section 3: Hierarchy of norms (pp 107-108).
- Section 4: Competence and conferral, 4.1 ‘Competence’ as ability and ‘competence’ as power,
4.2 Conferral, 4.3 Grants of legislative power (‘legal bases’), 4.4 Classification of competences,
4.4.1 Exclusive competence, 4.4.2 Shared Competences, 4.4.3 Ancillary (or ‘complementary’)
competences (pp 108-114).
- Section 5: Subsidiarity, 5.1 The subsidiarity test, 5.2 Protocol No 2: the ‘early warning
mechanism’ (pp 115-117); Section 5.4: Judicial Review of compliance with the subsidiary test
(pp 119- 121).
- Section 6: Proportionality (pp 121-122) excluding Case Study 5.1 Vodafone (p. 122).
- Section 7: Legislative and other decision-making procedures, 7.1 Legislative and assimilated
procedures, 7.1.1 The ordinary legislative procedure (pp 123-127) 7.2 Special Legislative
procedures, 7.3 Innominate non-legislative procedures (INPs) (pp 127-129).
,- Section 8: Delegated and implementing acts, 8.1 Delegated acts, (pp 130-131); 8.1.3 Limitations
on delegation and the identification of delegated acts (p 132), 8.2 Implementing acts (p 132)
Legislation
● Articles 3-5, 9-19, TEU
● Articles 1-6, Articles 223-250, 288-290 TFEU
● Protocol (No 1) on the Role of National Parliaments in the European Union [2008] OJ C 115/203
● Protocol (No. 2) on the Application of the Principles of Subsidiarity and Proportionality attached
to the Treaties [2008] OJ C 115/206.
Bundle 3: The effects of EU law in the national legal systems of EU MS
Chapter 6: The effects of EU Law in the national legal systems:
- Section 1 Introduction (pp 151-152).
- Section 2 EU Law in the Member States: institutions, procedures, principles; 2.1 National rules,
unless ...; 2.2 The not-so autonomous national procedural autonomy; 2.3 From
equivalence/effectiveness to the principle of effective judicial protection (pp 152-157).
- Section 4 Direct effect; 4.1 Van Gend en Loos; 4.2 The conditions and the real test; 4.3 Direct
effect in action; 4.4 Differentiation I: types of legal acts; 4.4.1 Treaty and Charter provisions, 4.4.2
Regulations; 4.5 Differentiation II: types of legal relationship; 4.6 No horizontal direct
effect of directives: the rule and the exceptions (pp 160-171).
- Section 5: Indirect Effect; 5.1 The notion; 5.2 The scope; 5.3 Interpretation unbounded?; 5.4
Introducing some limits (pp 171-177).
- Section 6: Primacy; 6.1 The Court’s view; 6.1.1 Costa; 6.1.2 The scope and effect of primacy; (pp
177-180).
- Section 7: State liability (pp 185-186)
Legislation
● Article 288 TFEU
Case law
● Case C-26/62 Van Gend en Loos, 5 February 1963, ECLI:EU:C:1963:1. Available at: https://eur-
lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61962CJ0026.
● Case C-6/64 Costa v. ENEL, 15 July 1964, ECLI:EU:C:1964:66. Summary available at: https://eur-
lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61964CJ0006.
● Case 106/77, Amministrazione delle finanze v Simmenthal, 9 March 1978, ECLI:EU:C:1978:49. (paras 13-
26). Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61977CJ0106.
● Case 41/74, Van Duyn v Home Office, 4 December 1974, ECLI:EU:C:1974:133 (paras 16-24). Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A61974CJ0041.
● Case 148/78, Ratti, 5 April 1979, ECLI:EU:C:1979:110 (paras 18- 27, and 39-47). Available at: https://eur-
lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61978CJ0148.
● Case C-8/81 Becker, 19 January 1982, ECLI:EU:C:1982:7 (paras 17-25, and 37-40). Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61981CJ0008.
● Case 152/84, Marshall, 26 February 1986, ECLI:EU:C:1986:84 (paras 36, and 38, and 48-56). available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/GA/TXT/?uri=CELEX:61984CJ0152.
● C-188/89, Foster and Others, 2 July 1990, ECLI:EU:C:1990:313 (paras 1-10, 16-22). Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61989CJ0188.
● Case 14/83 Von Colson and Kamann v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, 10 April 1984, ECLI:EU:C:1984:153
(paras, 16-19, and 22-24, and 26-28). Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61983CJ0014.
Bundle 4: Internal market
, Chapter 11: The internal market and the philosophies of market integration
o Section 1 Introduction; Section 2 The nature of the internal market: three models; 2.1
Three models of market integration; 2.2 The implications of the different models;
2.2.1 Consequences for sovereignty; 2.2 Institutional consequences; 2.2.3 Welfare
considerations; 2.2.4 Democratic concerns (pp 336-342).
o Section 4 The law of the internal market: the power to harmonize; 4.1 The power;
Case Study 11. 2 Tobacco advertising; 4.2 The exceptions (pp 354- 362).
o Section 5 The law of the internal market: the types of harmonization; Section 6
Conclusion (pp 362-364).
TFEU: Article 4, 26, 114, (263)
Case C- 376/98, Germany v EP and Council of the European Union [Tobacco Advertising] 5 October 2000,
ECLI:EU:C:2000:544. Summary available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61998CJ0376Links to an external site.
Bundle 5: Free movement of goods
• Chapter 12: Free movements of goods
o Section 1 Introduction; Section2 The customs union; 2.1 The concept of a customs
union; 2.2 Goods originating in a Member State and goods in free circulation;
Section 3 The meaning of ‘goods’; Section 4 Nationality and residence; (pp 366-
369).
o Section 5 Customs duties and Charges of equivalent effect; 5.1 Customs duties; 5.2
Charges of equivalent effect; 5.3 Permissible charges; 5.3.1 Services rendered; 5.3.2
Inspections required by EU law; 5.4 Charges imposed at the internal boundaries of
Member States; 5.5 Remedies (pp 370-373).
o Section 7: Discriminatory or protective internal taxation (pp 390-395).
TFEU: 26-31, 110.
• Case 24/68, Commission v Italy (Compilation of statistical data) 1 July 1969,
ECLI:EU:C:1969:29. Summary available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A61968CJ0024Links to an external site..
• Case 18/87, Commission v Germany (Check on animals’ health), 27 September 1988
ECLI:EU:C:1988:453. Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61987CJ0018&from=ENLinks to an
external site.
• Case 168/78, Commission v France (Neutrality of internal taxation), 27 February 1980,
ECLI:EU:C:1980:51. Summary available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61978CJ0168&from=ENLinks to an
external site..
, Bundle 6: Free movement of goods
• Chapter 12: Free movements of goods
o Section 2.2 Goods originating in a Member State and goods in free circulation;
Section 3 The meaning of ‘goods’; Section 4 Nationality and residence; (pp 368-
369).
Compulsory Readings
• Chapter 12: Free movements of goods
o Section 6 Quantitative restrictions and measures of equivalent effect; 6.1
Quantitative restrictions: imports and exports; 6.2 Measures of equivalent effect:
imports; 6.2.1 The definition; (pp 373- 380); Section 6.2.3 Some examples of MEEs
on imports; 6.3 Measures of equivalent effect: exports; 6.4 Purely national measures.
6.5 Justification under Article 36 and the mandatory requirements; 6.5.1 Justification
under Article 36; 6.5.2 The status of the mandatory requirements; 6.5.3 The general
principles governing Article 36 TFEU; 6.5.4 The grounds of justification. 6.6
Remedies (pp 382-390).
TFEU: 26-31, 110.
Case 8/74, Dassonville, 11 July 1974, ECLI:EU:C:1974:82. Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61974CJ0008&from=ENLinks to an
external site.
• Case 120/78 REWE (Cassis de Dijon), 20 February 1979, ECLI:EU:C:1979:42. Available
at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61978CJ0120&from=NLLinks to an external site.
• Case 207/83 Commission v UK (Indication of origin) 25 April 1985
ECLI:EU:C:1985:161. Summary available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61983CJ0207&from=ENLinks to an
external site..
• Case 249/81, Commission v Ireland (Buy Irish) 24 November 1982
ECLI:EU:C:1982:402. Summary available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61981CJ0249&from=ENLinks to an
external site.
• Case 40/82, Commission v UK (Poultry and protection of health) 15 July 1982
ECLI:EU:C:1982:285. Available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:61982CJ0040(01)&from=ENLinks to an
external site.
• Case 178/84 European Commission v Germany (Beer Purity), 12 March 1987,
ECLI:EU:C:1987:126. Available at:
