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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.
EU law is interpreted by, and EU case law is created by, the judicial branch, known collectively as the Court of Justice of the European Union. Legal Acts of the EU are created by a variety of EU legislative procedures involving the popularly elected European Parliament, the Council of the European Union (which represents member governments ...
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 .
EUR-Lex is the official online database of European Union law and other public documents of the European Union (EU), published in 24 official languages of the EU. The Official Journal (OJ) of the European Union is also published on EUR-Lex. Users can access EUR-Lex free of charge and also register for a free account, which offers extra features.
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 ...
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 ...
President Donald Trump is likely to dust off a 1930 trade law largely forgotten for decades to back his new reciprocal U.S. tariffs that will match other countries' higher import taxes, trade and ...
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.