The Choice of Legal Basis for Acts of the European Union Competence Overlaps, Institutional Preferences, and Legal Basis Litigation /

• Main Author: Engel, Annegret (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Law-Europe.; Law-Philosophy.; Law.; European Union.; European Law.; Fundamentals of Law.; European Union Politics.

This book provides the first comprehensive discussion of conflicts between legal bases in EU law. It fills an important gap in the existing literature on the choice of legal basis in EU law by analysing the structure of legal bases and the resulting legal basis litigation in the European Union, thus...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Conflicts between the Union's different types of competences
• The choice of legal instrument - a choice of legal basis?
• The choice of legislative procedure - a matter of institutional preference?
• The sui generis nature of external competences
• Conclusions.