5. Legislating in the European Union

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Kieran Bradley

Published:

2023

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

This chapter discusses the procedures for the adoption of legislative and other normative measures in the EU. It touches on a wide variety of subjects: forms of legal act; law-making competences and choice of procedure; the delegation of normative powers; and the application of the constitutional principles of conferral, subsidiarity, and proportionality. A number of more abstract matters are also covered, such as the hierarchy of norms and the ‘democratic deficit’. The chapter thus describes the legal structures and the rules governing the allocation of powers between the Union and the Member States, and the distribution of powers between the different organs of Union government.

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