Research Handbook on the Enforcement of EU Law (Research Handbooks in European Law series)

✍ Scribed by Miroslava Scholten (editor)

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 581
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive Research Handbook investigates the success of EU law enforcement processes. Going beyond traditional analyses of administrations and courts in isolation, it focuses on the increased cooperation seen between national and EU authorities, and on the widening variety of means used to enhance compliance with EU norms.

Bringing together leading experts from law, political science, economics and socio-legal studies, this Research Handbook provides a state-of-the-art analysis of EU enforcement laws, policies, and scholarship. It presents conceptual, institutional, and sectoral perspectives on EU law enforcement, advancing existing knowledge on why, when, and how laws are being followed or disobeyed. Contributors explore enforcement in specific EU policy areas, including foreign relations, economic policy, the internal market, competitiveness, and citizen rights. It argues that an overarching EU enforcement strategy would be more successful than the current model of diverse methods of enforcement in different policy areas.

Employing multi-dimensional and comparative approaches, the Research Handbook on the Enforcement of EU Law will be a valuable resource for scholars of European law and politics, public administration, governance, and compliance. It will also be a useful guide for public officials seeking to (re)design and assess effective and enforceable policies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Tables
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part I Enforcement of EU law from a conceptual point of view
1. Introduction to Research Handbook on the Enforcement of EU Law
2. Private enforcement of EU law
3. Administrative law enforcement of EU law
4. Criminal law enforcement of EU law and the impact of Europeanization
5. Enforcement concepts and strategies in the EU
6. Challenges in EU law enforcement and the digital age
Part II Enforcement of EU law from an institutional perspective
7. European Commission
8. The Court of Justice of the European Union and national courts as enforcers of EU law
9. National enforcers and European networks as engines for enforcement cooperation
10. EU enforcement agencies
11. The choice of EU agencies or networks of national authorities: exploring the relevance of regulated industry characteristics
Part III Enforcement of EU law from a sectoral perspective
12. The Common Commercial Policy and customs union
13. Public and private enforcement possibilities within the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy
14. Economic and monetary union
15. European banking union
16. Anti-money laundering
17. A power to fine: establishing negligence and intent in infringements by credit rating agencies and trade repositories
18. The internal market
19. Labour law and social policy
20. Environmental law
21. Food law
22. The enforcement of EU consumer law
23. Energy law
24. Enforcing common fisheries and agricultural policies
25. Competition law
26. EU procurement and concessions law
27. State aid in the European Union
28. Intellectual property law
29. Data protection
30. The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
31. The Common European Asylum System
32. Protection of the financial interests of the EU
33. Challenges and successes of enforcement of EU law
Index