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Legal Acts of the European Union are laws which are adopted by the Institutions of the European Union in order to exercise the powers given to them by the EU Treaties. They come in five forms: regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions.
European Union law is a system of rules operating within the 27 member states of the European Union (EU). It has grown over time since the 1952 founding of the European Coal and Steel Community, to promote peace, social justice, a social market economy with full employment, and environmental protection.
A regulation is a legal act of the European Union [1] which becomes immediately enforceable as law in all member states simultaneously. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Regulations can be distinguished from directives which, at least in principle, need to be transposed into national law .
The Community acquis [1] or acquis communautaire (/ ˈ æ k iː k ə ˈ m juː n ə t ɛər /; French: [aˌki kɔmynoˈtɛːʁ]), [2] sometimes called the EU acquis and often shortened to acquis, [2] is the accumulated legislation, legal acts and court decisions that constitute the body of European Union law that came into being since 1993.
A directive is a legal act of the European Union [1] that requires member states to achieve particular goals without dictating how the member states achieve those goals. A directive's goals have to be made the goals of one or more new or changed national laws by the member states before this legislation applies to individuals residing in the ...
The main legal acts of the European Union come in ... The legal basis for EU environmental policy was established with the introduction of the Single European Act in ...
Article 1 establishes the European Union on the basis of the European Community and lays out the legal value of the treaties. The second article states that the EU is "founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to ...
In European Union law, a decision is a legal instrument which is binding upon those individuals to which it is addressed. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are one of three kinds of legal instruments which may be effected under EU law which can have legally binding effects on individuals. [ 1 ]