Abstract
Already at the beginning of the existence of the EU Communities, the ECJ introduced direct effect and primacy of EU law as two fundamental principles of the EU legal order. These principles were based on a need for uniform and effective application of EU law. This development had a great impact on the organization of national constitutional orders, among other things, on the role of ordinary courts in the judicial architecture and the position of national constitutional courts. This chapter investigates potential legal risks for the national and EU legal orders and concludes that although not materialized, legal risks have shaped the relation between EU law and national law.
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- 1.
See for an overview on reactions from national courts Claes (2006).
- 2.
Opinion 2/13 [2014] para. 157.
- 3.
Opinion 2/13, para. 166.
- 4.
Article 6(3) TEU.
- 5.
Opinion 2/13, para. 170.
- 6.
Case C-402/05, Kadi Yassin Abdullah Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v. Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities [2008] ECR I-06351, para. 284.
- 7.
Ibid., para. 285.
- 8.
Opinion 2/13, para. 176.
- 9.
Case 26/62, Van Gend en Loos [1963] ECR 00001.
- 10.
Case 6/64, Costa v ENEL [1964] ECR 585 and for a classic see also Stein (1964–1965), pp. 491–518.
- 11.
Case C-106/77, Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato v Simmenthal SpA [1978] ECR 629. For an extensive analysis on these issues see Claes (2006).
- 12.
Case C-103/88, Fratelli Costanzo SpA v Comune di Milano [1989] ECR I-1839 and as a further example Case C-224/97, Erich Ciola v Land Vorarlberg [1999] ECR I-2517.
- 13.
Case C-11/70, Internationale Handelsgesellschaft v Einfuhr- und Vorratsstelle Getreide [1970] ECR-1125.
- 14.
Case C-399/11, Stefano Melloni v Ministero Fiscal [2013] ECR nyr. See also Case C-409/06, Winner Wetten [2010] ECR I-08015; Case C-416/10, Križan and Others [2013] published in electronic reports of cases.
- 15.
De Witte (2011), p. 327.
- 16.
Case 26/62, Van Gend en Loos [1963] ECR 00001.
- 17.
Van Gend en Loos, p. 6.
- 18.
Halberstam (2010), p. 28.
- 19.
Halberstam (2010), p. 28.
- 20.
Halberstam (2010), p. 29.
- 21.
Halberstam (2010), p. 29.
- 22.
Halberstam (2010), p. 29.
- 23.
Claes (2006), pp. 97–102.
- 24.
Case C-11/70, Internationale Handelsgesellschaft v Einfuhr- und Vorratsstelle Getreide [1970] ECR I-1125. In this case, the referring German Court asked the Court of Justice about the validity of the system of import and export licenses as established by two regulations, of the Council and the Commission respectively. The referring Court based the allegation on the invalidity of such Community Acts on the grounds that these acts were against some fundamental principles of the German Basic Law.
- 25.
Case C-399/11, Stefano Melloni v Ministero Fiscal [2013] ECR nyr. For a comment see De Boer (2013), pp. 1083–1104.
- 26.
Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA on the European Arrest Warrant and the Surrender Procedures between Member States [2002].
- 27.
Art. 4a(1) of the Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA.
- 28.
Case C-399/11, Stefano Melloni v Ministero Fiscal [2013] ECR nyr, para. 59.
- 29.
Ibid., para. 60.
- 30.
Ibid., para. 61.
- 31.
Spanish Constitutional Court, STC 26/2014 [2014].
- 32.
For an extensive analysis see Besselink (2014), pp. 531–552.
- 33.
Claes (2006), p. 102.
- 34.
Prechal (2007), p. 54.
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Case C-314/85, Foto Frost v. Hauptzollamt Lübeck-Ost [1987] ECR I-4199.
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Ferreres Comella (2004), pp. 477 et seq.
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Ferreres Comella (2004), pp. 477 et seq.
- 38.
Case C-399/11, Stefano Melloni v Ministero Fiscal [2013] ECR nyr, para. 63.
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- 40.
German Federal Constitutional Court, Case No. 1 BvR 248/63 and 216/67 [1967], in Oppenheimer (1994), p. 410.
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German Federal Constitutional Court, Case No. 2 BvR 225/69 [1971], in Oppenheimer (1994).
- 42.
Ibid.
- 43.
Italian Constitutional Court, Case 183/73 Frontini [1973] in Oppenheimer (1994), p. 629.
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See the discussion below on Case C-399/09, Landtová [2011] ECR I-05573 and the response by the Czech Constitutional Court, Case Pl. ÚS 5/12 Holubec [2012] at http://www.usoud.cz/en/decisions/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=37&cHash=f5c96e0e4789a7fc3b2eecaca01bc6b3. Accessed 20 August 2015.
- 45.
Italian Constitutional Court, Case No. 232/1989 Fragd [1989] in Oppenheimer (2003), pp. 653–662.
- 46.
See Article 88-I of the French Constitution and cases such as French Constitutional Council, Decision no. 2006-540 Loi relative au droit d’auteur et aux droits voisins dans la societe de l’information [2006], at www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr, and for an overview Millet (2014), pp. 195–218.
- 47.
Czech Constitutional Court, Case Pl. ÚS 50/04 Sugar Quotas [2006], part A-3 of the judgment.
- 48.
Czech Constitutional Court, Case Pl. US 66/04 European Arrest Warrant [2006], para. 53.
- 49.
German Federal Constitutional Court, Case No. 2 BvL 52/71 Internationale Handelsgesellschaft Gmbh v. Einfuhr- und Vorratsstelle für Getreide und Futtermittel (Solange I) [1974] in Oppenheimer (1994), p. 447 and German Federal Constitutional Court, Case No. 2 BvR 197/83 Wünsche Handelsgesellschaft (Solange II) [1986] in Oppenheimer (1994), p. 462.
- 50.
German Federal Constitutional Court, Case No. 2 BvR 197/83 Wünsche Handelsgesellschaft (Solange II) [1986] in Oppenheimer (1994), p. 494.
- 51.
German Federal Constitutional Court, Case No. 2 BvR 2134 and 2159/92 Maastricht Treaty 1992 Constitutionality Case [1993] para. C/I/3 of the judgment in Oppenheimer (1994), pp. 555–556.
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German Federal Constitutional Court, Case 2 BvE 2/08, 5/08, 2 BvR 1010/08, 1022/08, 1259/08, 182/09 Lisbon Treaty [2009] https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidungen/EN/2009/06/es20090630_2bve000208en.html. Accessed 25 September 2015.
- 53.
German Federal Constitutional Court, Case 2 BvR 2661/06 Honeywell [2010] at http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidungen/EN/2010/07/rs20100706_2bvr266106en.html. Accessed 25 September 2015. For an analysis see Payandeh (2011), pp. 9–38.
- 54.
Case C-144/04, Mangold [2005] ECR I-09981.
- 55.
Case 2 BvR 2661/06 Honeywell [2010].
- 56.
German Federal Constitutional Court, Case 2 BvR 2728/13 [2014]. For a short comment on the ECJ case see Piqani (2015), at http://jog.tk.mta.hu/blog/2015/07/the-ecj-upholds-the-ecbs-bond-buying-programme. Accessed 25 September 2015.
- 57.
Case 2 BvR 2728/13 para. 36–42.
- 58.
Case C-62/14, Gauweiler [2015] n.y.r.
- 59.
Case Pl. ÚS 5/12 Holubec [2012].
- 60.
Case C-399/09, Landtová [2011] ECR I-05573.
- 61.
For an excellent analysis and background see Bobek (2014), pp. 54–90.
- 62.
Bobek (2014), p. 57.
- 63.
Bobek (2014), p. 58.
- 64.
Case C-399/09, Landtová [2011] ECR I-05573, para. 41–49.
- 65.
Case Pl. ÚS 5/12 Holubec [2012].
- 66.
Regulation (EEC) No. 1408/71 of the Council on the Application of Social Security Schemes to Employed Persons and their Families Moving within the Community [1971].
- 67.
Case Pl. ÚS 5/12 Holubec [2012] part VII.
- 68.
Case Pl. ÚS 5/12 Holubec [2012] part VII.
- 69.
Bobek (2014), pp. 63–66.
- 70.
Bobek (2014), p. 67.
- 71.
Case C-112/00, Schmidberger [2003] ECR I-0000.
- 72.
Case C-36/02, Omega Spielhallen-und Automatenaufstellungs-GmbH v. Oberbürgermeisterin der Bundesstadt Bonn [2004] ECR I-0000.
- 73.
Claes (2007), p. 11.
- 74.
See, for instance, cases such as Case C-208/09, Ilonka Sayn-Wittgenstein [2010] ECR I-13693; Case C-391/09, Malgožata Runevič-Vardyn and Łukasz Paweł Wardyn v. Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės administracija and Others [2011] ECR I-03787; Case C-202/11, Anton Las v. PSA Antwerp NV [2013].
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Piqani, D. (2016). Legal Risks in the Relation Between National Constitutional Law and EU Law. In: Mišćenić, E., Raccah, A. (eds) Legal Risks in EU Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28596-2_2
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