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The Principle of Loyalty in EU Law

The Principle of Loyalty in EU Law

Author: Marcus Klamert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199683123
Published In: January 2014
Format: Hardback , 352 pages
Jurisdiction: European Union ? Disclaimer:
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- The first book-length treatment in English to provide a thorough examination of the legal duties falling under the principle of loyalty in EU public law
- Discusses the role of the loyalty principle in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice
- Places the principle of loyalty in its international context, examining how it has influenced EU law and the comparisons that can be drawn with national and international relations
Despite its seemingly innocuous wording, in what is now Article 4 (3) TEU, the principle of loyalty has had a significant impact in deepening the reach of EU law within the Member States. The duty of sincere cooperation has been interpreted strongly by the European Courts as imposing serious duties on States to give strong effect to European legal acts. The principle has been central to the development of Union law since the 1960s, and is still being relied on by the European Court of Justice to often-controversial effect.

Providing a thorough discussion of the principle of loyalty in EU law, this book introduces a novel classification of the very diverse roles loyalty plays in the EU. It distinguishes between the effects loyalty prescribes for interlocking the legal orders of the Member States with Union law, its application in preventing and resolving conflicts between the Union and the Member States, and the loyalty principle's role in the shaping of EU law. It addresses important and yet unresolved questions pertaining to loyalty, such as its relation to the principles of solidarity, pre-emption, the Union interest, institutional balance, and the unity of international representation. The book explains why loyalty has been neglected in the prevailing narratives about the foundational case law of the European Court of Justice, and highlights its central importance to understanding EU public law.

Readership: Academics and students working in EU law, EU administrative law, external relations, and public international law; practising lawyers working in EU law
Introduction
Part I: Introducing Loyalty
1: Loyalty in the EU Treaties
2: Loyalty in Context
3: Loyalty and the Constitutionalization of EU Law
Part II: The Cohesion of European Union Law
4: A Primer on the Structure of Union Law
5: Supremacy, Pre-Emption, and the Union Interest
6: Effectiveness, Judicial Protection, and Loyalty
Part III: Cooperation in the European Union
7: A Primer on Union Competences
8: Loyalty and Non-Exclusive Competences
9: Manifestations of Loyalty in Secondary Law
10: Loyalty and Mixed Agreements
Part IV: The Construction of the European Union
11: A Primer on Constitutional Cooperation and Conflict in the EU
12: On the Nature of Loyalty
13: Deconstructing Loyalty
14: Amplification
Marcus Klamert is a legal officer with the Executive Office for Constitutional Matters of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and a lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He was previously Senior Lecturer at the Institute for European and International Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (APART), Visiting Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law (IECL) at the University of Oxford, Visiting Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute (EUI), and has practised as an Associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Vienna. He holds a PhD from the University of Vienna, and a Masters from the University of Amsterdam. He has published on external relations, the effect of directives, European constitutional law, and the fundamental freedoms.