The Application of EU Law by Polish Courts. General Remarks on 15 Years of Experience

• Authors: Monika Domańska , Dawid Miąsik , Monika Szwarc

Abstracts

EN

The Court of Justice of the European Union operates on a case-by-case basis. This means that its decisions normally relate to specific problems occurring in a specific Member State. Consequently it is often hard to ‘translate’ this case law into the national legal system of a different Member State. Nevertheless the case law of the Court of Justice has consequences not only for the individual Member States. It also has harmonising effects. In this sense, the principles of primacy and of direct effect of EU provisions, as well as the obligation to interpret domestic law in conformity with EU law, operate as the minimum requirements which the legal systems of Member States must fulfil. Poland joined the European Union in May 2004. At that time the number of Member States increased to 25. The existence of avenues of judicial protection in the EU raised a number of questions from the very beginning. Now, after 15 years of experience it is time to consider the standard of application of EU law by Polish courts.

Keywords

EN

national courts; application of EU law; principle of primacy; direct effect; consistent interpretation; preliminary rulings

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Contemporary Central and East European Law
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 1 (133)
• Pages: 21-32

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Monika Domańska

• Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

• https://orcid.org/0000000237902548

author

Dawid Miąsik

• Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

• https://orcid.org/0000000159749233

author

Monika Szwarc

• Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

• https://orcid.org/0000000178858021

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Identifiers

DOI

10.37232/cceel.2019.02

Biblioteka Nauki

2172239