Corporate strategy and governance

OUTLINE THE EUROPEAN UNION LEGAL ORDER AND ITS EVOLUTION. Origins and developments of the European Communities (EC). The Maastricht Treaty on the European Union (EU). Nature and structure of the European Union. The Treaty of Amsterdam. The Treaty of Nice. The European Constitution. The Treaty of Lisbon. Enlargement of the EU. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEGAL ORDERS AND THE EU’S COMPETENCES. The unity of the EU legal order and its architecture. The relationship with national legal orders: the integration system; the “primacy” and the “direct effect”; the “procedural autonomy” of Member States. The Union's competences. The development of competences; from the European Economic Community to the Maastricht Treaty and the subsequent evolution. Allocation and exercise of competences. THE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. The institutional framework of the European Union and its organs. The European Council. The Council. The European Parliament. The Commission; the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The economic governance; the European Central Bank; the evolution of the economic governance. Judicial bodies of the European Union. THE LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM. The sources. Primary and secondary Law. General principles of EU Law. The acts of the institutions. The legislative procedures. The budgetary procedure. JUDICIAL PROTECTION. The EU judicial system. The General Court and the Court of Justice. Infringement proceedings. Actions for annulment and for failure to act. Preliminary rulings. Action for damages. Interim measures. Other procedures.

Testi: G. G. TESAURO, Diritto dell’Unione Europea, CEDAM, 2021: Chapters. II, V, VIII, IX, X, XI

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