EU Law

Question 1

What is the EU?

Answer 1

Europe union founded in 1957 and we joined in 1973, the main institutions are:

• eu council, law making body
• eu commission, proposes new leg
• eu parliament, represents citizens
• CJEU, preserves treaties, their roles are taking action against member states eg Re Tachographs and Preliminary rulings eg R v Bouchereau.

Question 2

Sources of EU law

Answer 2

• treaties, all treaties become Eu law and are directly applicable. Direct effect rely on UK courts, Vertical direct effect sue uk/public bodies under Eu law, Horizontal direct effect use Eu leg against another person eg Van Dunn v Home Office
• regulations, issued by council of eu, binding in every respect and directly applicable to each member state eg Re Tachographs
• directives, issued by Eu council to harmonise laws over member states, all introduce their own laws eg UK with si.