law - week 5 - european union and european law

treaty of rome (1958)

european economic community (EEC) + european atomic energy community (EURATOM)

treaty of brussels (1967)

purpose to streaamline european institution → modifying treaty

single european act

reform institutions

maastricht treaty (1993)

treaty on european union → founding treaty

treaty of amsterdam (1999)

reform EU institutions → modifying treaty

treaty of lisbon (2007)

increase efficiency → modifying treaty

ESM (2012)

treaty establishing the european stability mechanism

TSCG (2013)

treaty on stability, coordination, governance in the economic and monetary union (TSCG)

primary legislation

treaties, general principles, non treaty internal agreements

secondary legislation

regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations, opinions

regulations

legal acts that the EU adopts that apply to membersd

directives

legal acts that the EU adopts directing the members to achieve it

decisions

binding legal act of a EU institution

recommendations

non binding legal act of EU institution

opinion

non binding, like a recommendation

legislative acts

legal acts adopted by ordinary legislative procedure

delegative acts

non legislative acts of general application which supplement certain non essential elements of legislative acts

european council

heads of state come together to give policy direction

council of the EU

1 minister per state, forming part of the EU legislature

european commission

executive branch to implement policy and administer budgets and programs

court of justice of the EU

adjudicates issues of the EU law

european central bank

determines policy of the euro zone with the state banks (for the countries that have adopted the euro)

european court of auditors

specialized auditing body to review budget implementations