Das Verfahren zur Setzung von neuen Nachhaltigkeitsstandards ist de facto eine Privatisierung von EU-Hoheitsgewalt, die nicht von den EU-Verträgen gedeckt ist. Das ist das Ergebnis dieses Gutachtens von Martin Nettesheim, Professor für Europarecht an der Universität Tübingen. Er verweist...

Das Forschungsprojekt "Bürokratiekosten" erstreckt sich über vier Bände zu vier verschiedenen Regulierungen. Teil 4 widmet sich der Datenschutzgrundverordnung. Hier wurden die erforderlichen Angaben in vier Mitgliedsländern der EU untersucht und die ökonomischen Kosten in der...

Through a comparison with dispute resolution procedures in NAFTAÕs Side Agreements, this paper demonstrates that three of the ECJÕs most important decisions Ð Van Gend en Loos, Costa v Enel, and Commission v Luxembourg and Belgium Ð should be understood as combining to reorganize general...

As the ECJÕs two most famous decisions, Van Gend en Loos and Costa v. ENEL, which established the direct effect and supremacy of European law, are commemorated on their fiftieth anniversaries, attention has also turned to another of the ECJÕs early decisions. On 13th November 1964, in...

This paper explores the EU solidarity place inside the labour relations. The first part scrutinizes the context in which in the EU solidarity can be developed: Solidarity between workers has national roots, no place at the Eu Institutional level, is limited inside the European Social dialogue....

The European Work Council is a transnational actor which represents the workers in European firms. The paper identifies the difficulties and obstacles which limits the powers of EWC (legitimacy in question, content of constitutive agreement, link with national bodies, transnational coordination...

In the European Union, a set of legal instruments was developed to enhance social partners’ actions. Here, we consider whether these instruments encourage, at Community level, efficient trade union actions in response to the strategies deployed by multinational firms at international level. In...