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The Topic ‘Individual Rights in European Union Law’

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References to ‘individual’ European Union law ‘rights’ have been made by and before the Court of Justice of the European Union in hundreds of cases to date, and it is well settled that Union law grants substantive and procedural rights to individuals. The Court of Justice has even characterized the ability for Union law to generate individual rights as perhaps the most distinctive feature of the sui generis EU legal order.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Cf. Opinion of the Court of 14 December 1991 delivered pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 228 of the EEC Treaty [cf. Article 300 TEC(A), Article 218 TFEU]—Opinion 1/91 [Draft agreement between the European Community and the countries of the European Free Trade Association relating to the creation of the European Economic Area] [1991] ECR I-6097, paras 20–21. Cf., also, Court of Justice, Suggestions of the Court of Justice on European Union, in: European Communities, Commission, Reports on European Union, Bulletin of the European Communities 9/75, 17–18.

  2. 2.

    Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (OJ 2010 C 83, p. 389).

  3. 3.

    Aalto (2011), p. 39.

  4. 4.

    Engstroem (2009), p. 212.

  5. 5.

    Póltorak (2015), p. 7.

  6. 6.

    Ward (2012), p. 593.

  7. 7.

    Bengoetxea (2012), p. 741.

  8. 8.

    Prechal (2005), p. 98.

  9. 9.

    de Búrca (1996), p. 30.

  10. 10.

    Cf., inter alia, de Búrca (1996), Lewis (1996), Lonbay and Biondi (1997), Kilpatrick et al. (2000), Dougan (2004), Tridimas (2006), Ward (2007), and Engstroem (2009).

  11. 11.

    Póltorak (2015), p. 3.

  12. 12.

    Cf., e.g., Bengoetxea (2012), Prechal (2006), Eilmansberger (2004), Ruffert (1997), van Gerven (2000), Jurgens (2007), Reich (1998), and von Oettingen (2010). Cf., for further references, e.g., Reiling (2004), p. 52 (footnote 13).

  13. 13.

    Ward (2007), p. 202.

  14. 14.

    Nazzini (2009), p. 403.

  15. 15.

    Prechal (1998), p. 681.

  16. 16.

    Cf. Eilmansberger (2004), p. 1218.

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Thorson, B. (2016). The Topic ‘Individual Rights in European Union Law’. In: Individual Rights in EU Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32771-6_1

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