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Decentralized Enforcement of EC Law: Is the European Commission Still the Guardian of the Treaties?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Jacquelyn F. MacLennan*
Affiliation:
Forrester, Norall & Sutton, Brussels

Abstract

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Type
Emerging Issues on Compliance and Effectiveness within the European Union
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1997

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References

1 See, e.g., Communication from the Commission Implementing Community Environmental Law, COM(96)500 final.

2 See the Commission’s Annual Reports on the Implementation of the Internal Market.

3 COM(96)520.

4 Commissioner Monti Speech 97/55, Mar. 7, 1997.

5 See, e.g., Williams, Rhiannon, The European Commission and the Enforcement of Environmental Law: An Invidious Position, 14 Oxford Y.B. Eur. L. 351 (1994)Google Scholar.

6 Case C-300/95, Commission v. U.K., 1997 E.C.R____.

7 See Case C-106/89, Marleasing SA v. La Comercial Internacional de Alimentación SA, 1992 E.C.R. I-4135.

8 Eg., Joined Cases C-6790 and C-9/90, Francovich v. Italy, 1991 E.C.R. 1-5357.

9 Communication of June 8, 1996, 1996 O.J. (C 242) 6.

10 Communication of January 8, 1997.

11 Case T-24/90, Automec srl v. Commission, 1992 E.C.R. 11-2223 [hereinafter Automec II].

12 See, e.g., Case 234/89, Delimitis v. Henninger Brau, 1991 E.C.R. 1-935; Automec II, supra note 11.

13 1993 O.J.(C39)6.

14 1996 O.J.(C262)5.

15 See, e.g., Wesseling, Rein, Subsidiarity in Community Antitrust Law: Setting the Right Agenda, 22 Eur. L. Rev. 35 (1998)Google Scholar.

16 See Lang, John Temple, The Duties of National Courts under Community Constitutional Law, 21 Eur. L. Rev. 3 (1998)Google Scholar.