• Introduction
• Presentation of the Commission's proposal on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor's Office
• The Commission's legislative proposal: an overview of its main characteristics
• Is the Commission proposal for a European Public Prosecutor's Office based on a harmonious interpretation of Articles 85 and 86 TFEU?
• Constitutional issues of multilevel prosecution by the European Public Prosecutor's Office from a Union perspective
• The European Public Prosecutor's Office and Eurojust: 'Love match or arranged marriage'?
• Some explorations into the EPPO's administrative structure and judicial review
• Search and seizure measures and their review
• The choice of forum by the European Public Prosecutor
• Issues of conferral, subsidiarity and proportionality
• European Public Prosecution's Office: A far from perfect proposal
• Establishing enhanced cooperation under Article 86 TFEU
• Implications of enhanced cooperation for the EPPO model and its functioning.

In July 2013 the European Commission launched its legislative proposal to create a European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO). The proposal provoked fierce debates, politically as well as on the academic level. Many national parliaments opposed and submitted formally their grievances to the Commission and negotiations on the proposal between Member States are ongoing. As early as September 2013, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague, The Netherlands, held the first international conference on this unprecedented proposal. This book reflects the main results of that conference. It provides a concise background of and reasoning for the introduction of this new EU body entrusted with far reaching judicial powers disclosing important legal and policy implications. Within its hitherto limited scope, the existing system of judicial cooperation between EU Member States will change fundamentally, directly affecting the functioning of national courts and public prosecution offices. This book helps answering fundamental questions involved. It provides a solid basis for both academics and practitioners to further structure an EPPO, respecting the interests of all parties involved. At the time of writing and editing this volume, Leendert Erkelens and Arjen Meij were both Visiting Research Fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague, The Netherlands. Marta Pawlik was a Research Assistant in the same Institute.

• Harmonization and Approximation Policies in the European Union.- Organized Crime Legislation: Reasons and Background for the Assessment of Harmonization and Approximation.- The Methodology.- Assessing Harmonization: The Horizontal Analysis.- Assessing Approximation: The Vertical Analysis.- Conclusions and Implications.
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Just a few months after the entry into force of the EU Framework Decision on the fight against organized crime, this book provides an unprecedented analysis of the national and European legislation on organized crime. The book provides a critical examination of the European policies and legal instruments to promote the harmonization and approximation of criminal law in this field (including the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime). The current level of harmonization among EU Member States and the approximation to the standards of the new Framework Decision are discussed in detail, with the help of tables, graphs and maps. The results highlight the problems surrounding the international legal instruments and the inconsistencies of the national approaches to combating organized crime.
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• Van Gend en Loos, 3 February 1963-a view from within / Pierre Pescatore
• The continuous significance of Van Gend en Loos / Bruno De Witte
• Van Gend en Loos : the foundation of a community of law / Franz C. Mayer
• Pluralism in Marbury and Van Gend / Daniel Halberstam
• The European court of justice and the doctrine of supremacy : Van Gend en Loos ; Costa v ENEL ; Simmenthal / Nial Fennelly
• Costa v ENEL and Simmenthal : primacy of European law / Ingolf Pernice
• Conflicts and integration : revisiting Costa v ENEL and Simmenthall II / Herwig Ch Hofmann
• From Costa v ENEL to the treaties of Rom : a brief history of a legal revolution / Morten Rasmussen
• The incorporation of fundamental rights in the community legal order / José Narciso Cunha Rodrigues
• Primacy, fundamental rights and the search for legitimacy / Takis Tridimas
• Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, Nold and the new human rights paradigm / Mattias Kumm
• The ECJ's fundamental rights jurisprudence-a milestone in transnational constitutionalism / Brun-Otto Bryde
• Wachauf and the protection of fundamental rights in EC law / Francis G. Jacobs
• Looking back at ERT and its contribution to an EU fundamental rights agenda / Damian Chalmers
• Wachauf and ERT : on the road from the centralised to the decentralised system of judicial review / Zdeněk Kühn
• "All the guidance", ERT and Wachauf / Pedro Cruz Villalón.

• CILFIT and Foto-Frost in their historical and procedural context / David Edward
• The classics of EU law revisited : CILFIT and Foto-Frost / Paul Craig
• Cilfit and Foto-Frost : constructing and deconstructing judicial authority in Europe / Daniel Sarmiento
• The juridical coup d' êtat and the problem of authority : CILFIT and Foto-Frost / Alec Stone Sweet
• The EC external competencies : from the ERTA case to the opinion in the Lugano convention / Paolo Mengozzi
• Bold constitutionalism and beyond / Piet Eeckhout
• ERTA, ECHR and open skies : laying the grounds of the EU system of external relations / Christophe Hillion
• Constructing the European policy : ERTA and the open skies judgments / Robert Post
• The shock troops arrive in force : horizontal direct effect of a treaty provision and temporal limitation of judgments join the armoury of EC law / Eleanor Sharpston
• SABENA is dead, Gabrielle Defrenne's case is still alive : the old lady's testament ... / Denys Simon
• Defrenne II revisited / Síofra O'leary
• Gender equality and social policy after Defrenne / Horatia Muir Watt
• The basic constitutional charter of a community based on the rule of law / Koen Lenaerts
• Les Verts v the European Parliament / Jean-Paul Jacqué
• What has been, and what could be, thirty years after Les Verts/European Parliament / Alberto Alemanno
• Opening or closure? the constitutional intimations of the ECJ / Neil Walker.

• Martínez Sala and Baumbast revisited / Christiaan Timmermans
• A view of the citizenship classics : Martínez Sala and subsequent cases on citizenship of the union / Jo Shaw
• European citizenship after Martínez Sala and Baumbast : has European law become more human but less social? / Agustín José Menéndez
• Martínez Sala and Baumbast : an institutionalist analysis / Carlos Closa Montero
• Once upon a time-Francovich : from fairy to cruel reality? / Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer
• In praise of Francovich / Andrea Biondi
• Francovich and imperfect law / Julio Baquero Cruz
• Francovich and its aftermath : member state liability for breaches of European law from an economic perspective / Roger Van Den Bergh
• Life after Dassonville and Cassis : evolution but no revolution Allan Rosas
• Kir forever? the journey of a political scientist in the landscape of mutual recognition / Kalypso Nicolaïdis
• On the art of not mixing one's drinks : Dassonville and Cassis de Dijon revisited / Nicolas Bernard
• An outsider's view of Dassonville and Cassis de Dijon : on interpretation and policy / Donald H. Regan
• The development of the law and the practice in the post-Bosman era / Marko Ilešič
• Bosman changed everything : the rise of EC sports law / Stephen Weatherill
• Bosman : the genesis of European sports law / Stefaan Van Den Bogaert
• Inherit the wind : a comment on the Bosman jurisprudence / Gianni Infantino and Petros C. Mavroidis.

This book revisits, in a new light, some of the classic cases which constitute the foundations of the EU legal order and is timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty establishing a European Economic Community. Its broader purpose, however, is to discuss the future of the EU legal order by examining, from a variety of different perspectives, the most important judgments of the ECJ which established the foundations of the EU legal order. The tone is neither necessarily celebratory nor critical, but relies on the viewpoint of the distinguished line-up of contributors - drawn from among former and current members of the Court (the view from within), scholars from other disciplines or lawyers from other legal orders (the view from outside), and two different generations of EU legal scholars (the classics revisit the classics and a view from the future). Each of these groups will provide a different perspective on the same set of selected judgments. In each short essay, questions such as 'what would have EU law been without this judgment of the Court? what factors might have influenced it?; did the judgment create expectations which were not fully fulfilled?' and so on, are posed and answered. The result is a profound, wide-ranging and fresh examination of the 'founding cases' of EU law.
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• Frontmatter
• Inhaltsverzeichnis
• Einleitung
• 1. Teil: Gemeinschaftsverfassungsrechtliche Grundlagen
• Kapitel 1: Europäisches Privatrecht -- Begriff und Rechtsquellen
• Kapitel 2: Die Verbandskompetenz der Gemeinschaft auf dem Gebiet des Privatrechts
• Kapitel 3: Die Verteilung der gemeinschaftsrechtlichen Organkompetenzen auf dem Gebiet des Privatrechts
• 2. Teil: Rechtstheoretische Grundlagen
• Kapitel 4: Unbestimmte Rechtsbegriffe, normative Begriffe, Generalklauseln -- Versuch einer Eingrenzung und Begriffsbestimmung
• Kapitel 5: Die Konkretisierung wertungsoffener Rechtssätze -- Begriff und Methode
• 3. Teil: Die Konkretisierung Europäischen Privatrechts als Kompetenzproblem
• Kapitel 6: Zulässigkeit und Bindungswirkung wertungsoffener Rechtssätze im Sekundärrecht
• Kapitel 7: Verteilung der Konkretisierungskompetenz zwischen EuGH und Mitgliedstaaten
• 4. Teil: Die Konkretisierung Europäischen Privatrechts als Methodenproblem
• Kapitel 8: Systematik und Teleologie des Europäischen Privatrechts
• Kapitel 9: Primärrechtskonforme Konkretisierung
• Kapitel 10: Prinzipienorientierte Konkretisierung
• Kapitel 11: Rechtsvergleichende Konkretisierung
• Kapitel 12: Konkretisierung unter Heranziehung ökonomischer Kriterien
• Kapitel 13: Das Zusammenwirken der einzelnen Konkretisierungskriterien
• Backmatter.

Mit der zunehmenden Ausweitung und Verdichtung des europäischen Rechtsmaterials im Bereich des Privatrechts mehren sich Vorschriften, die im Interesse der Zukunftsoffenheit und Anpassungsfähigkeit relativ vage und wertungsoffen sind. Insoweit stellt sich vor dem Hintergrund der gemeinschaftsrechtlichen Kompetenzordnung die Frage, ob und unter welchen Voraussetzungeneine solcheRegelungstechnik das Angleichungsziel überhaupt erreichen kann und welcher Ebene innerhalb des Mehrebenensystems der Gemeinschaft die Aufgabe der Konkretisierung zukommen soll. Noch dringender und von viel grundsätzlicherer Bedeutung ist freilich die Bestimmung derjenigen Methoden und Kriterien, die die Konkretisierungsentscheidungen zum Europäischen Privatrechts im Einzelfall rational begründbar, diskutierbar und vorallem konsensfähig machen können. Dabei kann es nicht um eine beschreibende Darstellung des hergebrachten, rein formalen, Methodenkanons gehen. Anzusetzen ist vielmehr bei den der europäischen Wirtschaftsverfassung und dem Sekundärrecht zugrundeliegenden Prinzipien und Werten.