Fairhurst, Morano-Foadi, And Neller’s Law Of The European Union

Understand the complexities of EU law and its implications on UK law Law of the European Union, 13th Edition, by Morano-Foadi and Neller is a comprehensive and visually appealing coverage of the structure, law and practice of the European Union and its impact on UK law. This book sheds light on the constitutional arrangements of the EU, substantive areas of EU law and the political negotiation of regional interests of this unique legal entity. The 13th Edition provides an up-to-date coverage of the challenges, controversies and uncertainty of Brexit. Key features of this book include: Key Debates for academic discussion in class Visual diagrams explaining concepts, institutional structures and legislative procedures Cases boxes highlighting the facts, ruling and significance Reflection boxes drawing attention to key developments, interconnected issues and current controversies Learning objectives at chapter level, and end of chapter summaries offer focus for class and exam preparation A table amalgamating relevant legislation and cases across 22 human rights This new edition now includes: Updated information on the outcomes and implications of the 2016 Brexit referendum and the 2019 general election A new section on the recent use of Article 7 TEU and the rule of law Five new reflection boxes and two new case boxes An Enhanced ebook to enrich your studying experience with self assessment questions and dedicated feedback to help gauge your progress, deep links to key case reports, statutes & other sources of interest that provide access a wealth of wider reading, end of the chapter quiz that gives further opportunity to consolidate understanding and prepare for exams Law of the European Union is designed for students on undergraduate EU law modules. Sonia Morano-Foadi is a Reader in EU Law at Oxford Brookes University. Jen Neller is an associate tutor of EU law and a PhD candidate at Birkbeck University of London. Pearson, the world’s learning company. Front Cover......Page 1 Half Title Page......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Brief contents......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Preface for educators......Page 14 Preface for students......Page 16 Acknowledgements......Page 19 Table of cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (numerical)......Page 21 Table of cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (alphabetical)......Page 35 Table of cases before the European Court of Human Rights......Page 49 Table of cases before national courts......Page 50 Table of European Union Decisions......Page 51 Table of European Union Treaties......Page 52 Table of other Treaties, etc.......Page 57 Table of European Union Regulations......Page 58 Table of European Union Directives......Page 59 Rules of Procedure of the Institutions of the European Union......Page 62 Table of Statutes......Page 63 Table of Statutory Instruments......Page 64 List of abbreviations......Page 65 Equivalences......Page 67 Part 1 Constitutional and administrative law of the European Union......Page 69 1 An introduction to the European Union......Page 71 Learning objectives......Page 72 1.1.1 Values and objectives......Page 73 1.1.2 Institutions......Page 75 1.1.3 Union membership......Page 77 1.1.4 EU law......Page 80 1.1.5 Economic aspects of the Union......Page 82 1.1.6 The EU in the world......Page 84 1.2.1 Lessons from the World Wars......Page 85 1.2.2 The European Coal and Steel Community – 23 July 1952......Page 86 1.2.3 The European Economic Community and Euratom – 1 July 1958......Page 88 1.2.4 Enlargement – 1973–86......Page 89 1.2.5 The Single European Act – 1 July 1987......Page 90 1.2.6 The Treaty on European Union – 1 November 1993......Page 92 1.2.8 The Treaty of Amsterdam – 1 May 1999......Page 96 1.2.9 The Treaty of Nice – 1 February 2003......Page 98 1.2.10 Enlargement – 2004–07......Page 100 1.3 The Treaty of Lisbon......Page 101 1.3.2 Ratification of the ToL......Page 102 1.3.3 Changes introduced by the ToL......Page 104 1.4.1 Future enlargements......Page 111 1.4.2 Future contractions......Page 112 1.4.3 Future directions for the Union......Page 114 Chapter summary......Page 116 2 Institutions of the European Union......Page 119 Learning objectives......Page 120 2.1 Introduction to the institutions......Page 121 2.2.1 The function of the European Council......Page 123 2.2.2 Composition of the European Council......Page 124 2.3 The Commission......Page 125 2.3.1 The functions of the Commission......Page 126 2.3.2 Composition of the Commission......Page 128 2.3.3 Working procedures of the Commission......Page 134 2.4.1 The functions of the Council......Page 136 2.4.2 Composition of the Council......Page 137 2.4.3 Working procedures of the Council......Page 139 2.5.1 The Role of the High Representative......Page 142 2.6.1 The functions of the European Parliament......Page 143 2.6.2 Composition of the Parliament......Page 145 2.6.3 Working procedures and conduct of the Parliament......Page 149 2.7 Court of Justice of the European Union......Page 153 2.7.1 The Court of Justice......Page 154 2.7.2 The General Court......Page 160 2.7.3 Specialised courts......Page 161 2.8.2 The European Central Bank......Page 162 2.8.4 The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)......Page 163 2.8.5 The Committee of the Regions......Page 164 2.9 Democratic accountability and transparency......Page 165 2.9.2 Transparency......Page 166 Chapter summary......Page 170 3 Sources of European Union law (including general principles of law and fundamental rights)......Page 173 Learning objectives......Page 174 3.1 Introduction to the sources of EU law......Page 175 3.2.1 Origins of the Treaties......Page 176 3.2.2 Role of the Treaties......Page 177 3.2.3 Scope of the Treaties......Page 178 3.2.4 Negotiating and amending the Treaties......Page 180 3.3.1 Administrative procedural principles......Page 183 3.3.2 Fundamental rights......Page 187 3.4 Secondary legislation – regulations, directives and decisions......Page 204 3.4.2 Directives......Page 205 3.4.4 Procedures for adopting legislative acts......Page 206 3.4.5 Legal validity and grounds for annulment of legal acts......Page 213 3.6 Soft law......Page 214 3.7.1 International treaties negotiated by the Union......Page 215 3.7.2 International treaties negotiated by EU Member States......Page 218 Chapter summary......Page 220 4 Competence and supremacy of the Union......Page 223 Learning objectives......Page 224 4.1 Introduction......Page 225 4.2.1 The conferral of competence......Page 226 4.2.2 Types of competence......Page 227 4.2.3 Competence to adopt secondary legislation......Page 231 4.2.4 The principles of subsidiarity and proportionality......Page 234 4.3.1 Recognition of the supremacy of EU law......Page 236 4.3.2 Challenges to the supremacy of EU law......Page 237 4.4.1 The European Communities Act 1972......Page 243 4.4.2 Division of competences in Brexit negotiations......Page 245 Chapter summary......Page 247 5 Judicial methodology and preliminary rulings of the Court of Justice......Page 249 Learning objectives......Page 250 5.2 Judicial methods of interpretation......Page 251 5.2.1 Precedent......Page 252 5.2.3 Historical interpretation......Page 253 5.2.5 Teleological interpretation......Page 254 5.3.1 The jurisdiction of the Court of Justice to interpret Union law......Page 256 5.3.2 Discretion or obligation to refer......Page 258 5.3.3 Questions on the interpretation or validity of Union law......Page 261 5.3.4 Questions that are necessary to enable a national court to give a judgment......Page 263 5.3.5 Courts against whose decisions there is no judicial remedy under national law......Page 268 5.4.1 Simplified procedure......Page 270 5.4.3 Urgent preliminary ruling procedure......Page 271 Chapter summary......Page 272 6 Review of the legality of Union acts......Page 273 Learning objectives......Page 274 6.1 Introduction......Page 275 6.2 Review of legality of Union acts under Article 263 TFEU......Page 276 6.2.1 Grounds for judicial review......Page 277 6.2.2 Reviewable acts......Page 281 6.2.3 Locus standi (legal standing)......Page 284 6.2.4 Time limits for applications......Page 299 6.3.1 Challenging a failure to act under Article 265 TFEU......Page 301 6.3.2 Indirect challenges to a Union act......Page 303 6.4 Damages for unlawful Union acts under Article 340 TFEU......Page 305 6.4.1 Scope of liability......Page 306 6.4.2 Liability for a lawful act......Page 308 6.4.3 Remedies......Page 309 Chapter summary......Page 310 7 Infringement proceedings against Member States......Page 311 Learning objectives......Page 312 7.1.1 The obligation on Member States......Page 313 7.1.2 Actions by the Commission under Article 258 TFEU......Page 314 7.1.3 Actions by another Member State under Article 259 TFEU......Page 315 7.2 The stages of Article 258 TFEU proceedings......Page 316 7.2.1 The administrative stage......Page 317 7.2.2 The reasoned opinion......Page 318 7.2.3 The judicial stage......Page 319 7.3 Pecuniary penalties......Page 321 7.3.1 Calculation of payments......Page 322 7.3.2 Collection of payments......Page 327 7.4 Interim measures......Page 330 7.4.1 Interim measures ordered by the Court of Justice......Page 331 7.5 Measures under Article 7 TEU......Page 333 7.5.1 Rule of law in Poland......Page 335 7.5.2 Rule of law in Hungary......Page 336 Chapter summary......Page 337 8 Direct effect, indirect effect and state liability......Page 339 Learning objectives......Page 340 8.1 Introduction......Page 341 8.2.1 The principle of direct effect......Page 342 8.2.2 The scope of direct effect......Page 343 8.2.3 Direct effect of directives......Page 348 8.3.1 The principle of indirect effect......Page 360 8.3.2 Limitations to the principle of indirect effect......Page 364 8.4.1 State liability arising from unimplemented directives......Page 366 8.4.2 State liability arising from incorrect implementation......Page 367 8.4.3 Unimplemented directives revisited......Page 370 8.4.4 State liability arising from acts of the executive and the judiciary......Page 371 8.5.1 Direct effect of EU law in the UK......Page 376 8.5.2 Indirect effect of EU law in the UK......Page 381 Chapter summary......Page 384 Part 2 Substantive areas of EU law......Page 385 9 European Union citizenship and free movement rights......Page 387 Learning objectives......Page 388 9.1.1 Free movement of persons and non-discrimination......Page 389 9.1.2 EU citizenship......Page 391 9.2.1 Scope......Page 392 9.2.2 Rights of entry and residence......Page 403 9.3.1 Scope......Page 409 9.3.2 Rights of entry and residence......Page 416 9.3.3 Rights of family members in the event of death, departure or divorce......Page 418 9.3.4 Rights to equal treatment......Page 424 9.4.2 Expulsion on grounds of public policy, public security or public health......Page 425 9.5.1 Equal treatment regardless of nationality......Page 430 9.5.2 Rights of economically inactive EU citizens to social benefits......Page 432 9.5.3 Rights of EU students to social benefits......Page 435 9.6.1 Development of the Schengen area......Page 439 9.6.2 Participation in the Schengen acquis......Page 440 9.6.3 Measures adopted by Schengen group members......Page 442 9.6.5 Temporary reintroduction of border controls......Page 443 9.7 Free movement rights after Brexit......Page 444 Chapter summary......Page 445 10 Free movement of workers......Page 447 Learning objectives......Page 448 10.1.1 Primary legislation......Page 449 10.1.2 Secondary legislation......Page 451 10.2.1 Definition of a Union worker......Page 452 10.2.2 Retention of worker status after cessation of employment......Page 457 10.3.1 Rights to free movement......Page 460 10.3.2 Equal treatment in employment......Page 464 10.3.3 Equal access to social advantages......Page 471 10.3.4 Social security coordination......Page 474 10.4 Work-seekers......Page 476 10.4.1 Rights to free movement......Page 477 10.4.2 Rights to social benefits......Page 479 10.5.1 Definition of a family member......Page 485 10.5.2 Rights to free movement of family members......Page 486 10.5.3 Rights to social benefits for family members......Page 489 Chapter summary......Page 497 11 Freedom of establishment and the free movement of services......Page 499 Learning objectives......Page 500 11.1 Introduction......Page 501 11.1.1 Primary legislation......Page 502 11.1.2 Secondary legislation......Page 503 11.2.1 Establishment......Page 505 11.2.2 Services......Page 506 11.2.3 The 'official authority' exception......Page 510 11.3.1 Rights to establishment and to provide services......Page 511 11.3.2 Rights of entry and residence......Page 517 11.3.3 Rights of posted workers......Page 520 11.3.4 Permissible restrictions on the rights of providers......Page 525 11.4.1 Rights of recipients under the Treaties......Page 543 11.4.2 Rights of recipients to residence......Page 544 11.4.3 Rights of recipients under Directive 2006/123......Page 545 11.4.4 Rights of recipients to social advantages......Page 546 11.4.5 Permissible restrictions on the rights of recipients......Page 548 11.5.1 Treaty provisions......Page 553 11.5.2 Directive 2005/36: the recognition of professional qualifications......Page 559 11.5.3 Non-EU qualifications......Page 566 11.5.4 The internal situation......Page 570 Chapter summary......Page 572 12 Free movement of goods......Page 575 Learning objectives......Page 576 12.1 Introduction to the free movement of goods......Page 577 12.1.1 Primary legislation......Page 578 12.2.1 The customs union......Page 580 12.2.2 Scope of the term 'goods'......Page 581 12.2.3 Duties and charges having equivalent effect (CEEs)......Page 583 12.2.4 Charges for the provision of a service......Page 586 12.2.5 Customs duty or internal taxation?......Page 590 12.3 Internal taxation (Art 110 TFEU)......Page 591 12.3.1 Similar products (Art 110(1) TFEU)......Page 593 12.3.2 Indirect protection (Art 110(2) TFEU)......Page 597 12.4.1 Quantitative restrictions......Page 602 12.4.2 Measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions (MEEs)......Page 606 12.4.3 Distinctly applicable MEEs......Page 608 12.4.4 Indistinctly applicable MEEs: dual-burden rules......Page 612 12.4.5 Indistinctly applicable MEEs: equal-burden rules......Page 621 12.4.6 Quantitative restrictions and MEEs on exports (Art 35 TFEU)......Page 627 12.5.1 Justifications under Article 36 TFEU......Page 628 12.5.2 The Cassis rule of reason defences for indistinctly applicable measures......Page 639 12.5.3 Derogations from harmonising legislation (Art 114 TFEU)......Page 650 12.6 Free movement of goods after Brexit......Page 651 12.6.1 Models of EU trade arrangements with non-EU countries......Page 652 12.6.2 Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement......Page 653 Chapter summary......Page 654 Glossary......Page 657 Further reading......Page 673 Index......Page 689 Back Cover......Page 703 "We are excited to present the thirteenth edition of Law of the European Union. This is the second time we have updated this popular textbook, which was originally authored by Professor John Fairhurst, and we have continued to pursue an accessible but thorough approach throughout. We have worked to build on and improve the innovative features that we introduced in the last edition, including the addition of new reflection boxes to provide further consideration of interesting or difficult issues. Other features that facilitate accessibility and easy navigation of the material include: a brief glossary at the beginning of each chapter; learning objectives that correspond with chapter headings; the division of case boxes into 'facts', 'ruling' and 'significance'; diagrams to illustrate procedures or conditionality; and chapter summaries"-- Provided by publisher "This ... [book] ... was originally authored by Professor John Fairhurst, and we have continued to pursue an accessible but thorough approach throughout. We have worked to build on and improve the innovative features that we introduced in the last edition, including the addition of new reflection boxes to provide further consideration of interesting or difficult issues. Other features that facilitate accessibility and easy navigation of the material include: a brief glossary at the beginning of each chapter; learning objectives that correspond with chapter headings; the division of case boxes into 'facts', 'ruling' and 'significance'; diagrams to illustrate procedures or conditionality; and chapter summaries"-- Provided by the publisher