Multilingualism, Divergent Authentic Versions of a Legal Rule and Legitimate Expectations Of Individuals

• Authors: Rafał Mańko
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper argues that the multilingualism of the EU legal order should be viewed from the point of view of the right of individuals to acquaint themselves with the their rights and duties under EU law in the official language of their Member State. In case of discrepancies of equally authentic versions, individuals should have the possibility to rely on an ‘authentic version’ defence, especially in tax, customs and criminal law relationships.

Keywords

EN

multilingualism; interpretation; legitimate expectations; legal certainty; non-discrimination

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 141-159

Dates

published

2016-06-01

online

2016-07-14

Contributors

author

Rafał Mańko

• University of Amsterdam the Netherlands

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/slgr-2016-0021