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Abstract:
What are the basic principles underlying European Community Law? Although no one seeks a purely descriptive answer to this question, the discussion it gives rise to is of immense significance both for theoretical legal studies and for legal practice. Over the years, scholars have convened from time to time to re-examine the question in the light of new developments. This volume offers insights and findings of the latest such conference, held at Stockholm in March 2007, and sponsored by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies. The nineteen essays here printed are all final author-edited versions of papers first presented at that conference.
Far from merely an updating of the First Edition, which marked a 1999 conference held under the same auspices at Malmö, this book is entirely new. It underscores the importance of discovering the emergence of new general principles - linked, indeed, to such fundamental continuing concerns as democracy, accountability, transparency, direct effect, good administration, and European citizenship - as they develop in such increasingly important areas as the following:
- core aspects of competition and financial integration law;
- the ongoing process of European constitutionalization;
- the application of general principles in the new Member States;
- the growth of European private law;
- the successive creation of a jus commune europaeum; and
- the instrumental function of the EC Court.
There is also special consideration attached to such overriding issues as the gap-filling function of the principles within the Community legal system, and the implications of the use of a comparative methodology. The authors include both eminent, well-known experts, many of whom took part in the 1999 Conference, and representatives of a new generation of younger scholars in the field. This book will be of interest to all parties involved in the evolution of the European project from a legal perspective.
Contents:
1: Constitutional Law
1.1. Is Direct Effect a General Principle of European Law? - Joxerramon Bengoetxea
1.2. Two Twin-Principles of EU Law: Democracy and Accountability, Consistency and Convergence - Walter van Gerven
1.3. The Principle of Legal Certainty as a General Principle of EU Law - Juha Raitio
1.4. Article 10 EC: The Most Important ‘General Principle’ of Community Law - John Temple Lang
1.5. The Judicial Deficit in the EC: Knocking on Heaven’s Door? - Ola Zetterquist
2: Private Law
2.1. Structural Measures in EC Competition Law: A Bridge Too Far? - Lars Henriksson
2.2. Are There General Principles of Community Law Affecting Private Law? - Xavier Groussot and Hans Henrik Lidgard
2.3. Contribution of General Principles to EC Financial Market Integration - Sideek M. Seyad
2.4. Summary: Are There Any General Principles in Private Law? - Dan Eklöf and Lars Pehrson
3: Administrative Law
3.1. Transparency: A General Principle of EU Law? - Sacha Prechal and Magdalena E. de Leeuw
3.2. Between Supremacy and Autonomy: Applying the Principle of Good Administration in the Member States - Jane Reichel 3.3. Summary of the Discussion - Jane Reichel and Magdalena E. de Leeuw
4: Future Developments
4.1. Constitutional Rights versus Supremacy of EC Law in the New Member States: Ironies in the Light of the Pre-Accession Conditionality - Anneli Albi
4.2. Some Further Reflections on the Development of General Principles of Law within Article 10 EC - Laurence W. Gormley
4.3. ‘Principled Citizenship’ and the Process of European Constitutionalization: From a Pie in the Sky to a Sky with Diamonds - Xavier Groussot
4.4. General Principles of EU Law: The Methodological Challenge - Matthias Herdegen
4.5. Application of General Principles of EC Law by Polish Courts: Is the European Court of Justice Receiving a Positive Feedback? - Dawid Miasik
4.6. General Principles and National Law: A Continuing Two-Way Process - John A. Usher
5: Summary of the Conference
5.1. General Principles: Some Reflections on their Development in the 21st Century - Joakim Nergelius
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