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Overview: Judicial Protection of Individual Rights

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This part will seek to give an overview of the notion of a European Union law right from an external perspective, taking as our starting point not the right, but judicial protection of it. Hence, it is a sort of functional analysis; the initial aim is to shed light on the role rights actually play within the Union legal order, by looking at how the remedy is linked to the infringed right in order to better understand the notion of rights as such. As the purpose of this exercise is to provide some background to the main issue of when an individual must enjoy the protection that comes with the position as right holder, it is not a complete presentation of remedies for breach of European Union law.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Cf., e.g., Case C-370/12 Pringle [2012] (OJ 2013 C 26, p. 15) (EU:C:2012:756), para 135.

  2. 2.

    Cf., e.g., Case 283/81 CILFIT [1982] ECR 3415, para 20.

  3. 3.

    Cf. Prechal (2006), p. 301. Cf., also, Lawson (1977), p. 178.

  4. 4.

    Cf., e.g., Zakrzewski (2005).

  5. 5.

    Cf. Eilmansberger (2004), p. 1199 (footnote 2).

  6. 6.

    Joined Cases C-6/60 and C-9/90 Francovich [1991] ECR I-5357, para 41.

  7. 7.

    Cf. Sect. 11.3.

  8. 8.

    Case C-470/03 AGM-COSMET [2007] ECR 1-2749, para 88.

  9. 9.

    Cf., e.g., Koziol (2012), p. 19.

  10. 10.

    Cf. Sect. 19.4.1.

  11. 11.

    Prechal (2001), p. 54.

  12. 12.

    Cf. Eilmansberger (2004), pp. 1222–1223.

  13. 13.

    Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on markets in financial instruments amending Council Directives 85/611/EEC and 93/6/EEC and Directive 2000/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 93/22/EEC (OJ 2004 L 145, p. 1). Cf., from January 2017, Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments and amending Directive 2002/92/EC and Directive 2011/61/EU (OJ 2014 L 173, p. 349).

  14. 14.

    Cf., e.g., Busch (2012), pp. 394–398. Cf., on the issue of rights, Sect. 15.3.4.

  15. 15.

    Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market and amending Council Directive 84/450/EEC, Directives 97/7/EC, 98/27/EC and 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’) (OJ 2005 L 149, p. 22).

  16. 16.

    Joined Cases C-261/07 and C-299/07 VTB-VAB [2009] ECR I-2949, para 52.

  17. 17.

    Cf. Sect. 16.3.4.

  18. 18.

    Case C-234/04 Kapferer [2006] ECR I-2585.

  19. 19.

    Cf., also in this direction, Groussot and Minssen (2007), pp. 405–409.

  20. 20.

    Case C-119/05 Lucchini [2007] ECR I-6199.

  21. 21.

    Joined Cases 314-316/81 and 83/82 Waterkeyn [1982] ECR 4337, para 15.

  22. 22.

    Joined Cases 314-316/81 and 83/82 Waterkeyn [1982] ECR 4337, para 16. Cf., also, Opinion of Advocate General Stix-Hack in Case C-426/98 Commission v Greece [2002] ECR I-2793, para 60.

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Thorson, B. (2016). Overview: Judicial Protection of Individual Rights. In: Individual Rights in EU Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32771-6_10

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