Overview
Aims
• Presentation of the main overall objective of discipline Community institutions and bodies through which the process of European integration is achieved
• Acquiring knowledge of the European construction through the main provisions contained community treaties, namely: objectives and mechanisms of each stage of integration, the rules governing Community policies, development and the role of institutions and bodies through which shall implement these
• Presentation of the main institutions (European Council, Council, Commission, Court of Justice and Court of Auditors) and bodies (European Economic and Social Committee, the European Central Bank and the European System of Central Banks), emphasizing the powers that were vested implementing and fi
• Study of the main mechanisms of decision-making process.
Course contents
1. Establishing the European Communities. 2. European Union and its specific 3. Communities and European Union principles. 4. Scope of the Community Treaties. 5. European Council and the European Parliament. 6. European Council and the European Parliament. 7. European Commission. 8. Court of Justice of the European Union. 9. Court of Auditors and other EU bodies. 10. Arrangements to apply Community law in the legal order of the Member States. 11. European Union acts. 12. Operation decision-making mechanisms and other institutional Relations.
Learning outcomes
• Proper use of specialized legal language within a given topic debate • Appropriate use of theories, principles and legal concepts learned in a professional project • Doing a project or a study based on legislation, doctrine and jurisprudence relating to a specific legal issue • Doing a project or a study on resolving the legal issues raised by a concrete factual situation.
Assessment
Written paper – interpretative essay – 80%; continuous assessment – 20%.