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'Litigating EU-Law' - Past Project
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Legal Task Force: Litigating EU lawThis paper, written by Thomas L. Brunell, Carol Harlow, and Alec Stone Sweet, provides an overview of litigation activity under Articles 226, 230, and 234 TEC, and an assessment of the European Court’s consequent impact on integration. It should be read in conjunction with the paper, “Note on the Data Sets: Litigating EU Law under the Treaty of Rome,” which describes the data that has been collected and suggests various ways in which these data might be used.go to documents area of the Legal Task Force II
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Legal Task Force: Litigating EU lawThe NEWGOV Legal Task Force has compiled and made available, for free and open use, three data bases on litigating EU law under the Treaty of Rome. The data sets, and their re-spective codebooks, are on-line at this website. This note provides a summary of these data, and briefly discuss various purposes for which they might be used.go to documents area of the Legal Task Force II
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Legal Task Force: Litigating EU lawThe final databases and code books are now available of the following data sets: Art. 230 actions for annulment – applications for the judicial review of the legality of Community acts – filed with the European Court of Justice; Art. 234 preliminary references filed with the European Court; Art. 226 infringement proceedings (enforcement actions). The data sets, compiled by Alec Stone Sweet and Thomas L. Brunell, include data up to the year 2006.go to project description of the LTF2
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Legal Task Force II: Litigating EU lawThe data set contains information on all of the Art. 234 preliminary references filed with the European Court since the first reference in 1961 up to June 1998. It contains the first 3,714 reference filed, which invoke 4,974 separate claims of EC law. A codebook explains the entries in the data set.go to documents area of LTF II
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Legal Task Force II: Litigating EU lawThis data set contains the first 1,435 Art. 226 infringement proceedings (enforcement actions) filed. In these, the European Commission raised 2,804 separate claims that Member States were in violation of one or more provisions of EC law. The data set includes information on, among others, the date, the target Member State, the legal domain or subject matter (e.g., competition, environmental protection, free movement of goods), the official docket number given to the case by the European Court of Justice, whether the enforcement action led to a judgement of the Court, is still pending, or was removed from the docket. A codebook explains the entries in the data set.go to documents area of LTF II
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