The European citizens’ initiative: Lost in admissibility?

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-270
Author(s):  
Natassa Athanasiadou
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Theoretical Underpinning ◽  
Legitimate Expectations

The present article aims to examine the admissibility requirements of the European Citizens’ Initiative in the light of primary law provisions and general principles, in particular the principles of conferral, participatory democracy, legal certainty, protection of legitimate expectations and good administration, as reflected in the recent case law of the General Court. More specifically, it is examined how these principles and the primary law features of the instrument provide a clear theoretical underpinning for determining its material scope and serve as guidance for the legislator when regulating the admissibility mechanism and for the European Commission when applying the relevant rules. The recent Commission proposal on a new Regulation on the European Citizens’ Initiative is also assessed against this backdrop.

scholarly journals STUCK AT A CROSSROADS? SUBSTANTIVE LEGITIMATE EXPECTATIONS IN ENGLISH LAW

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Alison L. Young
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Substantive Equality ◽  
Intuitive Decision Making ◽  
Legitimate Expectations ◽  
English Law

Abstract In “The Provenance and Protection of Legitimate Expectations” Forsyth argued that English law should protect substantive legitimate expectations. However, he was concerned that too great an expansion of legitimate expectations could lead to incoherence and intuitive decision-making. I argue that recent case law, and Forsyth's analysis, have clarified some of these inconsistencies. Nevertheless, the doctrine of legitimate expectations stands at a crossroads. Should it adopt a rules-based approach and narrow legitimate expectations, or a principled approach that embraces a broader conception? I argue that English law needs both for legitimate expectations effectively to balance legal certainty and substantive equality.

scholarly journals The free movement of economically inactive EU citizens: The right to reside test

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
Laura Gyeney
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Sensitive Issue ◽  
Relevant Case ◽  
Consolidation Phase ◽  
The Right

The question of free movement rights of economically inactive citizens and their access to social assistance is a legally controversial and a politically sensitive issue. This is well illustrated by the CJEU’s recent case law which signals a shift in its former jurisprudence towards a more restrictive approach relating to access to social assistance benefits for economically inactive EU citizens. Moreover, the Court’s case law appears to be moving away from the concept of EU citizenship as a general value and common solidarity. The present article aims to give a brief overview of the relevant case law with the aim of seeking answer the question whether this turn in the CJEU’s case law predicts a real paradigm shift or just a consolidation phase in the Court’s jurisprudence.

scholarly journals El principio de confianza legítima en el derecho a la vivienda: una asignatura pendiente de la doctrina constitucional

2018 ◽  
pp. 333-376
Author(s):  
María Begoña CRESPO HIDALGO
Keyword(s):  
Rental Housing ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Social State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legitimate Expectations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Rental Housing Market

LABURPENA: Etxebizitzak alokatzeko merkatua malgutzeko eta sustatzeko neurriei buruzko ekainaren 4ko 4/2013 Legearen bigarren xedapen gehigarriari buruz, urriaren 22ko 216/2015 KAE, maiatzaren 10eko 51/2018 KAE, eta maiatzaren 24ko 56/2018 KAE eman dira. Lehenengoa a) apartatuari buruzkoa da, zeinaren bitartez zehazten den ez direla berritu behar Etxebizitzako estatu mailako planetan emandako laguntzak eta diru-laguntzak, eta beste biak, b) apartatuari buruzkoak, zeinaren bitartez bi baldintza ezartzen diren babestutako etxebizitza bat eskuratzeko sarrerarako estatuko zuzeneko laguntzak jasotzeko eskubidea izateko. Epai horiek kontuan hartuta, lan honetan konfiantza legitimoaren printzipioaren urraketak duen garrantzi soziala aztertu da, etxebizitza duin eta egoki bat izateko eskubidean proiektatzen denean hain zuzen. Erabaki konstituzionalak, jurisprudentzialak eta doktrinalak aztertu dira estatu sozial batean konfiantza legitimoa bermatzeko segurtasun juridikoari eta legegileek duten mugei dagokionez, baita arauen aurreikusgarritasunari eta aurretik doktrina jurisdikzionala ez egotearen ondoriozko segurtasun juridiko ezari dagokionez. RESUMEN: A raíz de las SSTC 216/2015, de 22 de octubre, 51/2018, de 10 de mayo y 56/2018, de 24 de mayo, sobre la disposición adicional segunda de la Ley 4/2013, de 4 de junio, de Medidas de Flexibilización y Fomento del Mercado del Alquiler de Viviendas, la primera de ellas respecto al apartado a) que determina no renovar las ayudas y subvenciones concedidas en el marco de los Planes Estatales de Vivienda, y las otras dos, sobre el apartado b) que establece dos requisitos para obtener el derecho al abono de las ayudas estatales directas a la entrada para la adquisición de una vivienda protegida, en este trabajo se analiza la transcendencia social de la vulneración del principio de confianza legítima cuando se proyecta sobre un derecho como es el derecho a una vivienda digna y adecuada. Se estudian una serie de pronunciamientos constitucionales, jurisprudenciales y doctrinales en relación con la seguridad jurídica y los límites del legislador para garantizar la confianza legítima en un estado social, así como la previsibilidad de las normas y la inseguridad jurídica derivada de la no existencia de una doctrina jurisdiccional al respecto. ABSTRACT: As a result of judgments 216/2015 of October 22, 51/2018 of May 10 and 56/2018 of May 24 on the second additional provision to Act 4/2013 of June 4 on measures aimed at the flexibilization and promotion of the rental housing market, the first one regarding section a) that determines not to renew aids and subsidies awarded in the framework of the National Government Housing plans and the others regarding section b) that establishes two requirements in order to gain the right to be awarded with state direct aids for the deposit to buy a government-sponsored housing, we analyze the social significance of the infringement of the principle of legitimate expectations when a right such as the right to a decent and appropriate home is impaired. Some series of constitutional, court and doctrine declarations are studied in connection with legal certainty and the limits of the legislator to guarantee legitimate expectations in a Social state, together with the predictability of the rules and the legal insecurity that derivesfrom the lack of a case law doctrine in respect thereof.

IDENTIFYING THE PROFITS FOR WHICH A FIDUCIARY MUST ACCOUNT

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-63
Author(s):  
Matthew Conaglen
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Previous Scholarship

AbstractThis article addresses the manner in which accounts of profits are quantified when they are ordered against fiduciaries. Unlike previous scholarship, which has often sought to explain recent case law by reference to preconceived conceptual models, the present article addresses the topic by drawing on the reasoning adopted in the cases over a longer period, with a view to helping with the practical resolution of future cases, while also offering arguments drawn from that analysis as to the correct approach to the conceptual questions that arise.

scholarly journals Digital Single Market: electronic commerce and collaborative economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
Piedade Costa de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Eu Regulation ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
The Way

The so-called collaborative economy is developing in a wide variety of sectors. The aim of the present Article is to outline and analyse the way EU regulation applies or may apply to the collaborative economy, in particular, the e-Commerce Directive, in light of the recent case-law of the Court of Justice.

scholarly journals Recovering Unlawful Advantages in the Context of EU State Aid Tax Ruling Investigations

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-48
Author(s):  
Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
State Aid ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Member States ◽  
Legitimate Expectations

The European Commission has recently begun focus increasingly on the compatibility of Member States’ tax ruling procedures with EU State aid law. In that respect, it has ordered the recovery of unlawfully granted advantages through those procedures. This article examines to what extent the application of EU law principles of legitimate expectations and legal certainty are to take stock in State aid recovery proceedings of this particular legal certainty-enhancing and legitimate expectations creating tax ruling context. It additionally questions whether recovery in this particular context should be tailored to the specific national ruling framework having resulted in the advantage granted in violation of Article 107 TFEU.

THE ANALYSIS OF THE RECENT STANDARDS OF APPLYING COMPULSORY MEASURES ACCORDING TO THE CASE LAW OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (The Analysis of the Criminal Procedure Code of Georgia and its Compliance with the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights)

Law and World ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-162
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
European Court ◽  
Article 5

The present article – “The Analysis of the Recent Standards of Applying Compulsory Measures according to the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights (The Analysis of the Criminal Procedure Code of Georgia and its Compliance with the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights)” – discusses the recent case-law of the European Court of Human Rights on Article 5 of the European Convention together with the compliance of the Criminal Procedure Code of Georgia in terms of applying compulsory measures.

scholarly journals Legal Certainty

2021 ◽  
pp. 185-201
Author(s):  
Viktor Smorodynskyi
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Res Judicata ◽  
National Courts ◽  
Legitimate Expectations ◽  
General Principles Of Law ◽  
Venice Commission

Legal certainty is considered in the paper not only as one of the general principles of law and one of the requirements of the Rule of Law, but also as a fundamental feature and condition of the significance of law and its instrumental value in general. In this regard, the definitions of the Rule of Law conception and the lists of its components proposed by Western philosophers and theorists of law and by the Venice Commission are analyzed. Elements of the principle of legal certainty such as legislation and case law accessibility, legal acts’ predictability, principles of case law unity, legitimate expectations, res judicata, the European concept of autonomous interpretation and the American doctrine of uncertainty of law are covered. By analyzing and synthesizing theoretical concepts of the principle of legal certainty, the practice of its interpretation and application by European and national courts, the connections between it and other general principles of law (in particular – principles of legality and reasonableness), this principle plays a key role in the Rule of Law implementation in the national legal system.

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