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This list of European Union Directives is ordered by theme to follow EU law.For a date based list, see the Category:European Union directives by number.. From 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2014, numbers assigned by the General Secretariat of the Council followed adoption, for instance: Directive 2010/75/EU. [1]
The Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (Directive 2009/65/EC, "UCITS") [1] is a EU directive that allows collective investment schemes to operate freely throughout the EU on the basis of a single authorisation from one member state. EU member states are entitled to have additional regulatory requirements ...
A directive is a legal act of the European Union [1] that requires member states to achieve particular goals without dictating how the member states achieve those goals. A directive's goals have to be made the goals of one or more new or changed national laws by the member states before this legislation applies to individuals residing in the ...
Legal Acts of the European Union are laws which are adopted by the Institutions of the European Union in order to exercise the powers given to them by the EU Treaties. They come in five forms: regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions. [1] Regulations and directives can be either legislative or non-legislative acts.
The main types of acts under this heading are EU treaties (sector 1), directives, regulations, decisions as well as consolidated legislation (sector 0), etc. Consolidation is the integration of a basic legal act and all of its successive amendments and corrigenda into one easy-to-read document. Consolidated texts are intended for use as ...
A directive is a binding act of general application as a legal instrument of the European institutions addressed to the Member States to implement their policies, cf. Article 288 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union . To apply direct effect in national law the directive has to be transposed by the Member States.
In any case, if a reviewable act of an EU institution is not found compatible with the law, under article 264, it will be declared void. Plaumann & Co v Commission required that claimants must be individually and directly concerned by an EU law to request judicial review. Being adversely affected by rising clementine duties was not enough. [139]
The Community acquis [1] or acquis communautaire (/ ˈ æ k iː k ə ˈ m juː n ə t ɛər /; French: [aˌki kɔmynoˈtɛːʁ]), [2] sometimes called the EU acquis and often shortened to acquis, [2] is the accumulated legislation, legal acts and court decisions that constitute the body of European Union law that came into being since 1993.