with an Introduction to the Techniques of Case-solving in European Law

22.01.10

Autumn Semester 2009; Tuesday, 16.30 - 18.00, Auditorium 42, and Wednesday, 16.30 - 18.00, Auditorium 9 (Raiņa bulvāris 19). Interim examination at 25.11.2009, final examination at 12.01.2010

Course outline

Contents

Bibliography

Diagram 1  (The fundamental freedoms - an overview)

Diagram 2  (Violation of a fundamental freedom)

Diagram 3  (The free movement of goods)

Diagram 4  (The freedom of of movement for workers)

Diagram 5  (The freedom of establishment)

Diagram 6  (The freedom to provide services)

Test 1 (Interim examination, 25/11/2009)

Diagram 7 (The free movement of capital)

Diagram 8 (The free movement of payments)

Diagram 9 (An Overview of the Economic and Monetary Union)

Case 1 (concerning the free movement of goods) (see new version)

Case 2 (concerning the freedom to provide services)

Test 2 (Final examination, 12/01/2010)

§ 1 Institutional and substantive Law of the European Union

§ 2 The European Union as framework for the economic development in Europe

§ 3 The European unified economic area - an overview

§ 4 General theory

§ 5 The free movement of goods (art. 28 et seq., 110 et seq. FEU Treaty, formerly 23 et seq., 90 et seq. EC Treaty)

§ 6 The freedom of movement for workers (art. 45 et seq. FEU Treaty, formerly 39 et seq. EC Treaty)

§ 7 The freedom of establishment (art. 49 et seq. FEU Treaty, formerly 43 et seq. EC Treaty)

§ 8 The freedom to provide services (art. 56 et seq. FEU Treaty, formerly 49 et seq. EC Treaty)

§ 9 The free movement of capital and payments (art. 63 et seq. FEU Treaty, formerly 56 et seq. EC Treaty)

§ 10 The approximation of laws in the internal market

§ 11 The competition law of the European Union

§ 12 Economic and budgetary policy in the European Union

§ 13 The Monetary Union

Barnard, Catherine: The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms, 3rd edition 2010 [coming soon]

Davies, Gareth: European Union internal market law, 3rd edition 2006

Dubouis, Louis; Blumann, Claude: Droit matériel de l'Union européenne, 5th edition 2009

Dutheil de la Rochère, Jacqueline: Droit matériel de l'Union européenne, 3rd edition 2006

Ehlers, Dirk (editor): Europäische Grundrechte und Grundfreiheiten, 3rd edition 2009 [2nd edition 2005 = European Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, 2007]

Epiney, Astrid; Meyer, Annekathrin; Mosters, Robert: Europarecht, Teil 2: Die Grundfreiheiten des EG-Vertrages, 2nd edition 2007

Gormley, Laurence: EU Law of Free Movement of Goods and Customs Union, 2009

Goyder, D.G.; Goyder, Joanna; Albors-Llorens, Albertina: EC Competition Law, 5th edition 2009

Hailbronner, Kay; Jochum, Gerhard: Europarecht II. Binnenmarkt und Grundfreiheiten, 2006

Jones, Alison; Sufrin, Brenda: EC Competition Law. Text, Cases, and Materials, 3rd edition 2007

Kilian, Wolfgang: Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht, 3rd edition 2008

Korah, Valentine: An Introductory Guide to EC Competition Law and Practice, 2007

Lyons, Timothy: EC Customs Law, 2nd edition 2008

Maubernard, Christophe: Droit matériel de l'Union européenne, 2007

Alehno, Ivo; Buka, Arnis; Butkevičs, Jānis; Jarinovska, Kristīne; Škoba, Laine: Ievads Eiropas Savienības tiesībās (Tiesu prakse un komentāri), 2nd edition 2004

Arndt, Hans-Wolfgang: Europarecht, 9th edition 2008 (with CD-ROM)

Arnull, Anthony; Dashwood, Alan; Dougan, Michael; Ross, Malcolm; Spaventa, Eleanor; Wyatt, Derrick : Wyatt & Dashwood's European Union Law, 5th edition 2006

Berry, Elspeth; Hargreaves, Sylvia: European Union Law, 2nd edition 2007

Blūzma, Valdis; Buka, Arnis; Deksnis, Eduards Bruno; Jarinovska, Kristīne; Jundze, Inese; Jundzis, Tālavs; Levits, Egils: Eiropas tiesĪbas, 2nd edition 2007

Bou Franch, Valentín; Cervera Vallterra, María and others: El derecho de la Unión Europea, 2007

Chalmers, Damian; Tomkins, Adam: European Union Law. Text and Materials, 2007

Clergerie, Jean-Louis; Gruber, Annie; Rambaud, Patrick: L'Union européenne, 7th edition 2008

Craig, Paul; Búrca, Gráinne de: EU Law. Text, Cases and Materials, 4th edition 2007

Fairhurst, John: Law of the European Union, 7th edition 2010

Favret, Jean Marc: L'essentiel de l'Union européenne et du droit communautaire, 9th edition 2009

Folsom, Ralph H.: European Union Law in a Nutshell, 6th edition 2008

Folsom, Ralph H.: Principles of European Law, 2nd edition 2009

Gautron, Jean-Claude: Droit européen, 13th edition 2009

Hartley, Trevor: The Foundations of European Community Law, 6th edition 2007

Herdegen, Matthias: Europarecht, 11th edition 2009

Horspool, Margot; Humphreys, Matthew: European Union Law, 5th edition 2008

Kaczorowska, Alina: European Union law, 2008

Laffranque, Julia: Euroopa Liidu õigussüsteem ja Eesti õiguse koht selles, 2006

Mangas Martín, Araceli; Liñán Nogueras, Diego J.: Instituciones y derecho de la Unión Europea, 3rd edition 2005

Oppermann, Thomas; Classen, Claus Dieter; Nettesheim, Martin: Europarecht, 4th edition 2009

Rideau, Joël: Droit institutionnel de l'Union et des communautés européennes, 5th edition 2006

Steiner, Josephine; Woods, Lorna; Twigg-Flesner, Christian: EU Law, 10th edition 2009

Streinz, Rudolf: Europarecht, 8th edition 2008

Calliess, Christian; Ruffert, Matthias (editors): Kommentar des Vertrages über die Europäische Union und des Vertrages zur Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft - EUV/EGV -, 2nd edition 2002 [see also the 3rd edition: EUV/EGV. Das Verfassungsrecht der Europäischen Union mit Europäischer Grundrechtecharta, 2007; note, however, that these Treaties do not represent a Constitution of the European Union and that the Charter of Fundamental Rights has not become legally binding before December 2009]

Calliess, Christian; Ruffert, Matthias (editors): Verfassung der Europäischen Union. Kommentar der Grundlagenbestimmungen, 2006

Dabbah, Maher M.: EC and UK Competition Law. Commentary, Cases and Materials, 2004

Grabitz, Eberhard; Hilf, Meinhard (editors): Das Recht der Europäischen Union (loose-leaf edition), volume 1 - 5, 39th edition 2009

Groeben, Hans von der; Schwarze, Jürgen (editors): Kommentar zum Vertrag über die Europäische Union und zur Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft, 6th edition volume 1 - 4, 2003 - 2004

Léger, Philippe (editor): Commentaire article par article des traités UE et CE, 2000

Lenz, Carl Otto; Borchardt, Klaus-Dieter (editors): EU-Verträge, 5th edition 2010 [coming soon]

Pocar, Fausto (editor): Commentario breve ai trattati della Comunità e dell'Unione Europea, 2001

Priollaud, François;Siritzky, David: Le traité de Lisbonne. Commentaire, article par article, des nouveaux traités européens (TUE et TFUE), 2008

Schwarze, Jürgen (editor): EU-Kommentar, 2nd edition 2008

Smit, Hans; Herzog, Peter; Campbell, Christian; Zagel, Gudrun (editors): The Law of the European Union (loose-leaf edition), volume 1 und 2, 2005 ff.

Streinz, Rudolf (editor): EUV/EGV. Vertrag über die Europäische Union und Vertrag zur Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft, 2003

European Commission [Eiropas Komisija] (editor): Glossary (explanation of numerous legal and political terms)

Schmitz, Thomas (editor): Eiropas tiesību pamattermini / Grundwortschatz Europarecht / Basic Vocabulary of European Union Law, 2009 (legal dictionary German, English, Latvian)

Dauses, Manred A. (editior): Handbuch des EU-Wirtschaftsrechts (loose-leaf edition), 1998 ff.

Debard, Thierry; Le Baut-Ferrarèse, Bernadette; Nourissat, Cyril: Dictionnaire du droit de l'Union européenne, 2nd edition 2007

Eberts, Dōnats; Freija, Ieva; Jarve, Kristīne; Jerņeva, Jūlija; Lutere-Timmele, Dace; Pāvila, Debora; Rone, Dana; Rūķe, Ilona; Vasariņš, Normunds: Eiropas Savienības tiesību piemērošana. Rokasgrāmata praktizējošiem juristiem, 2nd edition 2008

Frenz, Walter: Handbuch Europarecht, volume 1: Europäische Grundfreiheiten, 2004; volume 2: Europäisches Kartellrecht, 2005; volume 3: Beihilfe- und Vergaberecht, 2006

Jones, Christopher; Woude, Marc van der: EC Competition Law Handbook 2010, 2009

Phinnemore, David; McGowan, Lee: A Dictionary of the European Union, 4th edition 2008

Ritter, Lennart; Braun, David W.: European Competition Law. A Practitioner's Guide, 3rd edition 2005

Toth, A.G.: The Oxford Encyclopaedia of European Community Law, volume II: The Law of the Internal Market, 2005; volume III: Competition Law and Policy, 2008

Arndt, Hans-Wolfgang; Fischer, Kristian: Europarecht. 20 Fälle mit Lösungen, 6th edition 2008

Epping, Volker; Lenz, Sebastian: Fallrepetitorium Europarecht. Fälle und Lösungen, 2005

Foster, Nigel: EU Law 2009 and 2010 [Questions & Answers], 7th edition 2009

Salinas Alcega, Sergio; Tirado Robles, Carmen: Casos prácticos de derecho de la Unión Europea, 2005

Schäfer, Peter: Studienbuch Europarecht. Das Wirtschaftsrecht der EG. Übersichten, Prüfungsschemata, Fallmethodik, 3rd edition 2006

Court of Justice of the European Communities/Union [Eiropas Kopienu/Savienības Tiesa] (editor): Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance, Part I: Court of Justice, Part II: Court of First Instance (official reports of the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice and of the General Court [formerly the Court of First Instance]), 1954 ff.

Court of Justice of the European Communities/Union [Eiropas Kopienu/Savienības Tiesa] (editor): Case-law (database of the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice, the General Court [formerly the Court of First Instance] and the Civil Service Tribunal and also of the opinions of the Advocates General in the different official languages; see in particular the subsite "Important pre-accession case-law" with its translations of important judgements in the languages of the new member states; see also the subsite "Digest of the case-law", a comprehensive database of headnotes and summaries [in French only].

Publications Office (editor): EUR-Lex. Case-law (database of the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice, the General Court [formerly the Court of First Instance] and the Civil Service Tribunal and also of the opinions of the Advocates General in in the different official languages)

Barents, Rene: Directory of EC Case Law on Competition, 2007

Barents, Rene: Directory of EC Case Law on State Aids, 2008

Hummer, Waldemar; Vedder, Christoph: Europarecht in Fällen, 4th edition 2005 [5th edition coming soon]

Kaczorowska, Alina: Law of the European Union. 150 Leading Cases, 3rd edition 2004

Levasseur, Alain A.; Scott, Richard F.; Raynouard, Arnaud; Wathelet, Melchior: The Law of the European Union, volume 2: Economic Law and Common Policies: Cases and Materials, 2006, supplements 2007

Pechstein, Matthias: Entscheidungen des Europäischen Gerichtshofs. Studienauswahl, 5th edition 2009

Rambaud, Patrick: Les grandes décisions de la jurisprudence communautaire, 3rd edition 2007

Turner, Chris: EU Law. Key Cases, 2006

Weatherill, Stephen: Cases and Materials on EU Law, 8th edition 2007

Publications Office [Publikāciju birojs] (editor): EUR-Lex. The access to European Union law [Piekļuve Eiropas Savienības tiesību aktiem] (Online compendium in the different official languages of the EU. Here you can find almost all regulations and directives and the Official Journal of the EU. Look here for the founding treaties.)

European Commission [Eiropas Komisija] (editor): Summaries of EU legislation (specialised online compendium of legislation concerning the individual fields of activities; see in particular the websites "Internal Market" and "Competition")

Davies, Karen (editor): EU Legislation and Treaties (Key Statutes), 2008-2009 edition

Foster, Nigel (editor): EU Treaties and Legislation 2009-2010, 20th edition 2009

Simmonds, K. R. (editor): Encyclopedia of European Community Law, volume 1 - 12 (loose-leaf edition), updated 2009

CDE: Cahiers de droit européen, since 1965

CJEL: Columbia Journal of European Law, since 1994

CMLRev: Common Market Law Review, since 1964

EIoP: European Integration Online Papers, since 1997 (internet journal)

ELJ: European Law Journal, since 1995

ELRev: European Law Review, since 1975

EHRLR: European Human Rights Law Review, since 1979

EuR: Europarecht, since 1965

EuZW: Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht, since 1990

FCE: Forum Constitutionis Europae, since 1998 (internet journal)

Integration: since 1978

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, since 1963

JMWP: Jean Monnet Working Papers, since 1995 (internet journal)

RDCM: Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo, since 1997

REE: Revista de Estudios Europeos, since 1992

RivDE: Rivista di diritto europeo, since 1961

RMC: Revue du Marché commun et de l'Union européenne, since 1958

RMUE: Revue du Marché Unique européen, since 1951 (since 2000: Revue du droit de l'Union européenne)

RTDE: Revue trimestrielle du droit européen, since 1965

WHI-Papers: since 1997 (journal on basic issues of European integration)

ZEuS: Zeitschrift für europarechtliche Studien, since 1998

Homepage of the European Union: Main server "Europa"

Institutions: European Council, Council of the European Union, European Commission, European Parliament, European Court of Justice, European Economic and Social Committee, European Central Bank, Agencies of the European Union

Compendiums of Laws: EUR-Lex; Founding Treaties (present version and Lisbon version; also in n Latvian ); Summaries of legislation concerning the individual activities of the Union; EU Treaties (collection including consolidated former versions, accession treaties etc., by Lexnet/Peter Gjørtler)

Jurisprudence: internet law reports of the European Court of Justice; jurisprudence at EUR-Lex; historic judgements in Latvian translation ; see also the Compendium Jurisprudence on European integration (in English and German, with direkt links to the inidvidual judgements); see also the Compendium of André Poddubny and others, EC Internal Market Law - Relevant Cases of the European Court of Justice (a script elaborated by the participants of a former course for the preparation of the examinations)

Websites concerning the individual activities of the Union: Overview (Main Server), Overview (Commission),  Internal Market (Main Server), The EU Single Market (Commission), Customs (Main Server), Taxation and Customs Union (Commission), Competition (Main Server), Competition (Commission), Economic and Financial Affairs (Commission), Economic and Monetary Affairs (Main Server), Monetary policy (ECB)

Other official documents: see the extensive official document registers of the European Union

Legal terminology in the field of European Union law: Eiropas tiesību pamattermini (Grundwortschatz Europarecht/Basic vocabulary of European Union law)

Practical informations: Your Europe (Commission, as well in Latvian)

See for more links my general homepage (in German); see the "Links zum Öffentlichen Recht" / "A. Europarecht"

concerning 1 I/II: The history of the European Union (Main Server; with detailed data)

concerning § 3 II: Informations on the Customs Union (Main Server/Commission); ECJ, joined cases 2 and 3/69, Diamandarbeiders (large concept of charges having equivalent effect to customs in art. 30 FEU Treaty); Legislation on the Customs Union: Common Customs Tariff (CCT) and Customs Codex/Modernised Customs Codex (CC) [Caution: not bearable without a glass of good wine or wodka! The lecturer denies any responsiblity for damages caused by reading these materials. Yes, European law can be that boring and bureaucratic!]

concerning § 3 III: The Internal Market Scoreboard of the Commission (indicates the state of development of the Internal Market)

concerning § 4 - § 9: Overview on important decisions of the ECJ concerning the fundamental freedoms (excerpt from: Schmitz, Rechtsprechung zur europäischen Integration, website at the university of Göttingen)

concerning § 4 I: ECJ, case 26/62, van Gend & Loos (direct applicability of fundamental freedoms)

concerning § 4 III: ECJ, case 60/00, Carpenter (indirect protection of fundamental rights via fundamental freedoms)

concerning § 4 III, § 5 II: ECJ, case C-265/95, French blockades (duties of protection)

concerning § 5: European Commission (editor), Free movement of goods. Guide to the application of Treaty provisions governing free movement of goods (articles 28-30 EC), 2nd edition 2009 (comprehensive, well-structured compendium)

concerning § 5 III: ECJ, joined cases 2 and 3/69, Diamandarbeiders (large concept of charges having equivalent effect to customs in art. 30 FEU Treaty); ECJ, case 8/74, Dassonville (large concept of measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions on imports in art. 34 FEU Treaty (formerly 28 EC Treaty): includes indistinctly applicable restrictions [understood in a very broad sense]); ECJ, case 120/78, Cassis de Dijon (regulations on necessary properties of products as measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions on imports; inherent limits of the free movement of goods); ECJ, case 178/84, purity requirement ["Reinheitsgebot"] for beer ([no] mandatory requirements of consumer protection); ECJ, case 249/81, Buy Irish (support of advertising campaigns for domestic products as encroachment on the free movement of goods); ECJ, joined cases C-265, C-268/91, Keck (reduction of the Dassonville formula: only product-related, not sales-related rules as encroachements on the free movement of goods)

concerning § 6 II: Annex VIII (rules concerning Latvia, also in Latvian ) to art. 24 of the Act of accession from 2003 (also in Latvian ) which allows the delayed realisation of the free movement of workers for workers from the new member states; ECJ, case 66/85, Lawrie-Blum (restrictive interpretation of the term public service in art. 39(4) EC Treaty)

concerning § 6 II/IV: secondary law on the free movement of workers (EUR-Lex, also in Latvian ), in particular the Directive 2004/38/EC on the right to move and reside freely (also in Latvian ), Regulations 1612/68 and 1408/71

concerning § 6 III: ECJ, case 36/74, Walrave and Koch (third-party effect of the freedeom of movement for workers); ECJ, case C-415/93, Bosman (restrictions as encroachments on the free movement of workers; third-party effect of the freedom of movement for workers in the field of professional football); ECJ, case C-190/98, Graf (no encroachment, if effect is too uncertain or indirect)

concerning § 7 II/III: ECJ, case C-221/89, Factortame (large, specific concept of "establishment" in Community law"); ECJ, case C-55/94, Gebhard (restrictions as encroachments on the freedom of establishment), ECJ, case C-212/97, Centros (registering of a branch of a company which has been established in another member state only for the purpose to evade the application of national law)

concerning § 7 and § 8: secondary law on the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services (EUR-Lex, also in Latvian ), in particular the Posting Directive (directive 1996/71/EC, also in Latvian , see in particular art. 3)

concerning § 8: The Services Directive (directive 2006/123/EC): text of the directive (also in Latvian ); special websites (Main Server); special websites (Commission), including a detailed implementation handbook for the member states (also in Latvian ); the historic dispute about the Services Directive: original proposal of the Commission (2004), position of the European parliament after the first reading (2/2006), amended proposal of the Commission (4/2006), Council common position (7/2006)

concernin § 8 II-IV: concerning a Latvian company:  ECJ, case C-341/05, Laval (judgement from December 18, 2007); ECJ, case 33/74, van Binsbergen (restrictions as encroachments on the freedom to provide services)

concerning § 9 II/IV: secondary law concerning the free movement of capital and payments (Scadplus/EUR-Lex), in partiular the Capital Directive (directive 88/361, also in Latvian ) and the Payment Services Directive (directive 2007/64, also in Latvian ); information about the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)

concerning § 9 IV: ECJ, case 112/05, Volkswagen Law (about golden shares)

concerning § 10:IV: ECJ, case C-376/98, Tobacco Advertising Directive I, ECJ, case C-380/03, Tobacco Advertising Directive II

concerning § 11: Antitrust Enforcement Regulation (regulation 1/2003), Merger Control Regulation (regulation 139/2004), State Aids Regulation (regulation 659/1999)

concerning § 12: the binding Broad economic policy guidelines 2008 - 2010

concerning § 13: The European System of Central Banks (ESCB); materials of the ECB for students (to be updated); information on the euro (Commission, also in Latvian )