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There are three main sources of European Union law: primary law, secondary law, and soft law1. Primary law is comprised of the Treaty on European Union, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and general principles of the European Union2. Secondary law is comprised of directives3 (legislative acts providing States with obligations to be met through instruments supplied by national laws), regulations (legislative acts directly and generally applicable to all Member States and to all European citizens), and decisions (legislative acts directly applicable only to those States or citizens to whom they expressly refer). Soft laws are non-legislative acts (such as Communications, Green Papers, and White Papers) that provide a correct interpretation of the Primary and Secondary laws4.
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Maresca, D. (2013). European Union Law: Main Principles and the Regulation of Public Infrastructures. In: Regulation of Infrastructure Markets. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33820-5_1
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