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The Area of “Freedom, Security and Justice” and the European Court of Justice—a Personal View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2008

Extract

The Treaty of Amsterdam enshrines in Article 2 (formerly Article B) of the Treaty on European Union under the new Title I called “Common Provisions” (which contains, with some amendments, the provisions of the former Articles A to F) a new objective for the Union, namely:

“to maintain and develop the Union as an area of freedom, security and justice in which the free movement of persons is assured in conjunction with appropriate measures with respect to external border controls, asylum, immigration and the prevention and combating of crime.”

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Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2000

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References

1. Order of inadmissibility, Case C-167/94 Grau Gomis [1995] E.C.R. 1–1023, para.6.

2. Case 26/62 Van Gend en Loos [1963] E.C.R. 1.

3. Case 41/74 Van Duyn v. Home Office [1974] E.C.R. 1337.

4. Convention of 27 September 1968 on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters; a consolidated (but unofficial) up to date version of the amended text of the Convention has been published at O.J. C27/3,26 Jan. 1998. The power is there conferred on the “competent authority of a contracting State” in the event of a conflict between judgments in that State and those of other States or the Court of Justice.

5. O.J. 1999 L114/56 (and O.J. 1999 C120/24).

6. Gesetz betreffend die Anrufung des Gerichtshofes der Europâischen Gemeinschaften in Wege des Vorabentscheidungsverfahrens BGBI 1998 I, p.2035, Art.1(2).

7. Council Regulation of 25 Sept. 1995 determining the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external border of the Member States (O.J. 1995 L234, p.1).

8. Case C–392/95 Parliament v. Council [1997] E.C.R. 1–3213.

9. Council Regulation (EC) No. 574/1999 of 12 Mar. 1999 determining the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders of Member States (O.J. 1999 L72, p.2).

10. Case C–170/96 Commission v. Council [1998] E.C.R. 1–2763.

11. Case 27/70 Commission v. Council [1971] E.C.R. 263 (“ERTA”).

12. C–221/88 European Coal and Steel Community v. Acciaierie e ferriere Busseni SpA [1990] E.C.R. 495, para.13.