Original goals of the European integration;

Academic Year 2017/2018

Institutional Law of the European Union

22.02 (L) Institutional beginnings of the European Integration:

Original goals of the European integration;

European Communities: the role of their institutional tissue in achieving their goals;

Differences and similarities of the original institutional setup of the European Economic Community and the European Steel and Coal Community;

The role of the Merger Treaty of 1965;

Institutional innovations of the Single European Act.

1.03 (C) Institutional revolution of the Maastricht Treaty; its relationship to the overhaul of the goals of the European Integration and its constitutional structure;

Institutional additions of the Lisbon Treaty and their justification;

The current institutional setup: Art. 13 TEU

8.03 (L) The basic constitutional and political dynamics between the institutions of the EU;

The European Council: Art. 15 TEU and Arts. 235-236 TFEU; further reading: Paul P.

Craig, Gráinne De Búrca, EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, Oxford University Press, 2015, Chapter 2.4;

High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; further reading: Paul P. Craig, Gráinne De Búrca, EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, Oxford University Press, 2015, Chapter 2.5.

15.03 (C) European Parliament, the Council – detailed internal institutional setup and voting patterns; further reading: Paul P. Craig, Gráinne De Búrca, EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, Oxford University Press, 2015, Chapter 2.6 and 2.3.

22.03 (L) European Parliament and the Council – their powers and the institutional

means of performing them; further reading: Paul P. Craig, Gráinne De Búrca, EU

Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, Oxford University Press, 2015, Chapter 2.6 and 2.3.

The role and the institutional backdrop of the European Ombudsman: discussion based on Recommendation of the European Ombudsman in case OI/2/2017/TE on the Transparency of the Council legislative process.

29.03 (C) Staff Regulations: overview of the role, subjects covered by it, rights and obligations of EU officials.

Test (10 close-ended questions): 15-20 minutes.

5.04 (L) The Commission – powers, status, decision-making processes; further reading: Paul P. Craig, Gráinne De Búrca, EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, Oxford University Press, 2015, Chapter 2.2.

12.04 (C) Staff Regulations: career of officials.

19.04 (L) The Court of Justice: goals (Art. 19 TEU), institutional arrangements (Art.

251-257 TFEU

26.04 (C) The reform of the Court of Justice: intro here, background for discussion:

here

17.05 (L) The principle of institutional balance: discussion based on the judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 14 April 2015, case C-409/13 Council of the European Union v European Commission.

24.05 (C) Decentralized agencies (intro here).

7.06 (C) The Court of Auditors, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions.

Final test (10 close-ended questions + 1 one open question): 30 minutes.

14.06 (L) Summary of the institutional dynamics in European law-making, further

reading: Paul P. Craig, Gráinne De Búrca, EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials,

Oxford University Press, 2015, Chapter 5.