Definition
Principle of conferral [Ro.: principiul atribuirii, Fr. le principe d’attribution, Sp: el principio de attribution, Gr.: αρχή της δοτής αρμοδιότητας] (see also: competence, principle of subsidiarity, principle of proportionality, Kompetenz Kompetenz) = a fundamental principle of the European Union according to which the Union is entitled to exercise only those competences that have been voluntarily transferred to it by the Member States. As a result, the EU has no competence to act in policy areas where such power has not been conferred to it by the Treaties. The exercise of the EU’s competences is governed by the principles of subsidiary and proportionality. The reason underlying each and every transfer of powers is mainly the attainment of the Union’s objectives to which every member state agreed by virtue of the founding treaties. These treaties enable the European Union to legislate and take action to achieve the common goals in areas like free movement of persons, goods and services, agriculture, the environment or foreign and security policy. In many policy
The reason underlying each and every transfer of powers is mainly the attainment of the Union’s objectives to which every member state agreed by virtue of the founding treaties. These treaties enable the European Union to legislate and take action to achieve the common goals in areas like free movement of persons, goods and services, agriculture, the environment or foreign and security policy. In many policy areas the EU has shares competence with its Member States.
Useful Links
Legislation
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A12012E%2FTXT - Consolidated versions of the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union - Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Articles 4-5 TEU, Article 7 TFEU [English]
Case law
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidungen/EN/2009/06/es20090630_2bve000208en.html- The “Lisbon” Judgment, BVerfG, Judgment of the Second Senate of 30 June 2009 - 2 BvE 2/08 - paras. (1-421)
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document_print.jsf?doclang=EN&text=&pageIndex=0&part=1&mode=lst&docid=136881&occ=first&dir=&cid=1654620- Case T 526/10 Inuit v Commission (2013) ECLI:EU:T:2013:215
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document_print.jsf;jsessionid=9ea7d2dc30d553cd250355dc499db1a5965835470436.e34KaxiLc3qMb40Rch0SaxuNbN10?doclang=EN&text=&pageIndex=0&part=1&mode=DOC&docid=153521&occ=first&dir=&cid=303256 - Case C 377/12 Commission v Council (2014) ECLI:EU:C:2014:1903
Online publications
http://www.heinonline.org.proxy.uba.uva.nl:2048/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/jurdscien2013&id=1&size=2&collection=journals&index=journals/jurdscien- Ion M. Anghel, Determining the Competences of the European Union (Part 1), pp. 7-34, 2013 [Romanian, English]
https://www-ceeol-com.proxy.uba.uva.nl:2443/search/journal-detail?id=1113- Augustin Fuerea, Brief Considerations on the Principles Specific to the Implementation of the European Union Law, Central and Eastern European Online Library, 2014 [English]
https://www-cambridge-org.proxy.uba.uva.nl:2443/core/journals/european-constitutional-law-review/article/lisbon-before-the-courts-comparative-perspectives/38E8B1C3201905516DA356DD136A5AAC- Mattias Wendel, Lisbon Before the Courts – Comparative Perspective, European Constitutional Law Review, Cambridge University Press, 2011 [English]
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com.proxy.uba.uva.nl:2048/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198794806.001.0001/acprof-9780198794806-chapter-9- Stephen Weatherill. The Internal Market as a Legal Concept – Creativity in the Gap between Negative and Positive Law: The Principle of Conferral Unleashed, Oxford Scholarship Online, 2017 [English]
Publications
Chalmers D., European Union Law: Text and Materials (CUP, 2014) [English]
Craig P., de Búrca G., European Union Law: Text and Materials (OUP, 2015) [English]