‘Facultative’ and ‘Functional Mixity’ in light of the Principle of Partial and Imperfect Conferral. College of Europe Research Paper in Law 03/2019 [PDF]
The concept of ‘facultative mixity’ as first coined by Allan Rosas3 has sparked a much heated debate.4 Is it a matter of political expediency in the EU Council to decide on the mixed nature, or not, of a given agreement in so far as it falls within ...
Govaere, Inge
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Legal, compliant and suitable: The ECB‘s Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP).BertelsmannStiftung/jacques Delors Centre Policy Brief 25 March 2020 [PDF]
The ECB has announced a 750-billion-euro purchase programme to fight the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. But like all ECB programmes in recent years, the new Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) will likely be challenged in court.
Grund, Sebastian
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Waste by any other name? National end‐of‐waste rulings and waste shipments
Abstract Transitioning to a circular economy is one of the main environmental objectives of the European Union. The circular economy aims to achieve more efficient resource utilisation, minimisation of waste and harnessing waste as a raw material. Moreover, many circular economy provisions lay down requirements and objectives for increased recycling ...
Topi Turunen
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2010 and 2011 EU Competition Law and Sector-specific Regulatory Jurisprudence and Case Law Developments with a Nexus to Poland [PDF]
This third overview of EU competition and sector-specific regulatory jurisprudential and case law developments with a nexus to Poland covers the years 2010 and 2011. This period of time is worth noting for several reasons. First, EU courts delivered a
Kuik, Krzysztof, Mościbroda, Anna
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The European Union in a Geo‐Economic World: Towards a New Inter‐Institutional Balance?
Abstract The EU's ‘geo‐economic turn’ has led to a blurring of the boundaries between EU trade and security policies. Against this background, this article examines whether a new institutional balance is emerging in the field of EU economic security policies, in particular, between the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament as the three ...
Thomas Conzelmann, Sophie Vanhoonacker
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ABSTRACT This article asks “who controls the controllers” now that the European Commission—long responsible for controlling the conduct of industrial policy in the EU's internal market—increasingly pursues its own industrial policy objectives. We draw on delegation theory to establish why the Commission should be held accountable for its industrial ...
Sebastian Diessner, Christy A. Petit
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Regulatory Means for Interventionist Ends: GBER and the Transformation of the EU State Aid Regime
ABSTRACT Despite its new‐found penchant for market interventionism, the European Union (EU) is often portrayed as lacking the fiscal and administrative capacity to conduct industrial policy. The EU can regulate markets, the conventional wisdom goes, but not steer them in specific directions.
Fabio Bulfone +2 more
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The EU’s competence to conclude trade agreements: the EU-Singapore Opinion [PDF]
A definitive reassessment of the constitutional, economic, institutional and judicial dimensions of the EU internal market, including ...
Koutrakos, P.
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Upscaling nature restoration in Italy: Barriers and facilitators
Abstract The new Nature Restoration Regulation (EU) 2024/1991 (NRR) sets ambitious objectives to begin revitalising the EU's degraded ecosystems by 2030. However, the structure of the NRR leaves Member States with a broad margin of discretion to pursue these targets within the context of their governance arrangements.
Morgan Eleanor Harris, Eleonora Ciscato
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Abstract The European Whistleblowing Directive is one of the most consequential acts of Union law in the last decade and has created lasting effects across the European Union. After almost all Member States have failed to meet the transposition deadline of 17 December 2021, the limits of a Directive's direct effects as a means to enforce Union law have
Simon Gerdemann
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