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All litigants before the General Court of the EU (GC), the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) or indeed before any EU body or agency will need to have full access to the documents held by the European Union. Though the legislation regulating the field, Regulation 1049/2001, has been in force for some time, it is a complex field for all would-be litigants. In this book the authors, both experienced practitioners in the area, clearly set out the documentation, access requirements and processes. They include a helpful glossary of terms, tables and appendices setting out the relevant legislation. This will be the seminal text for all practitioners who need to access documentation held by the EU.
This monograph offers a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth legal account of official secrets in the European Union. It critically analyses their implications for oversight and fundamental rights. Based on forty interviews with practitioners and other stakeholders, it offers an understanding of the practices of official secrets and provides a critical and much-needed perspective on how parliamentary, judicial and administrative oversight institutions deal with access to classified material and the dilemma of oversight to concurrently ensure secrecy necessary for EU security policies and openness needed for democratic processes and fundamental rights. The book discerns shifts in institutional...
The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union is a highly exceptional component of the EU legal order. This constitutionalised foreign policy regime, with legal, diplomatic, and political DNA woven throughout its fabric, is a distinct sub-system of law on the outermost sphere of European supranationalism. When contrasted against other Union policies, it is immediately clear that EU foreign policy has a special decision-making mechanism, making it highly exceptional. In the now depillarised framework of the EU treaties, issues of institutional division arise from the legacy of the former pillar system. This is due to the reality that of prime concern in EU external relat...
This timely book provides an astute assessment of the institutional and constitutional boundaries, interactions and tensions between the different levels of governance in EU criminal justice. Probing the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of the EU’s approach to transnational crime, it proposes improved mechanisms for public participation in the governance of EU criminal law, designed to ensure better transparency, accountability and democratic controls.
The second edition of The EU Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights: A Commentary provides an article-by-article summary of the TEU, the TFEU, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, to reflect the latest developments in the law since publication of the first edition in 2019. It offers a quick reference to the provisions of the treaties, how they are interpreted and applied in practice, and to the most important legal instruments enacted on their basis. The fully-updated Commentary considers key developments in all areas of EU law, including the debates and requirements around the Rule of Law, legal decisions in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change measures such as the Eu...
This insightful book analyses the theory and practice of administrative law in the European Union and its member states. Adopting a functional approach, Diana-Urania Galetta and Jacques Ziller provide a detailed overview of the law as it applies to EU institutions, bodies, offices, agencies, and member state authorities.
Gegenstand der Dissertation ist die Untersuchung des traditionsreichen schwedischen Öffentlichkeitsprinzips im Verhältnis zur zunehmend internationalisierten Verwaltungstätigkeit und der im auswärtigen Handeln praktizierten Diskretion. Der Autor erschliesst die tiefe verfassungs- und verwaltungsrechtliche Verankerung des Öffentlichkeitsprinzips, die Regeln zur Geheimhaltung sowie die Durchsetzungsmechanismen des Öffentlichkeitsprinzips im schwedischen Recht. Die Analyse der Rechtsprechung und der zahlreichen Bezüge zum europäischen Recht legt das Spannungsfeld zwischen nationaler Verfassungsidentität und europäischer Integration offen.
Parlamente sind Informationsakteure. Sie erzeugen und beschaffen in erheblichem Umfang Informationen und stellen sie dem Publikum niederschwellig bereit. Patrick Hilbert zeigt, dass diese Tatigkeit von Parlamenten eine eigenstandige Parlamentsfunktion darstellt, die den klassischen Katalog der Parlamentsfunktionen erganzt. Hierzu arbeitet er ihre rechtlichen Konturen sowie ihre besondere demokratische Bedeutung heraus. Daraus ergeben sich Kontraste zur allgemeinen Diskussion um die Informationstatigkeit des Staates, in der Parlamente bislang ausgespart wurden. Zudem zeigt er, dass auch das Europaische Parlament eine Informationsfunktion erfullt. Hierfur bereitet er auf, wie detailliert die Informationsfunktion durch das verstreute Selbstorganisationsrecht des Europaischen Parlaments ausgestaltet ist, und zeigt ihre Ubereinstimmungen und Besonderheiten gegenuber der Informationsfunktion nationalstaatlicher Parlamente auf.
Women's Police Stations examines the changing and complex relationship between women and the state, and the construction of gendered citizenship, using women's police stations in Sao Paulo. These are police stations run exclusively by police women for women with the authority to investigate crimes against women such as domestic violence, assault and rape. Sao Paulo was the home of the first such police station, and there are now more than 250 women's police stations throughout Brazil. Cecilia MacDowell Santos examines the importance of this phenomenon for the first time, looking at the dynamics of the relationship between women and the state as a consequence of a political regime, and exploring the notion of gendered citizenship.