HIERARCHY OF DERIVED LEGAL RULES OF EU

Abstract

Among the concepts that explain the preparation of this article, two are priority: a) very special place occupied by Community law derived sources in the hierarchy of legal norms of the European Union and b) reform efforts made by the Lisbon Treaty 2007 (2009) and related to them. Analysis of derived sources, in all its depth and extension of presented issues, requires some conceptual and historical clarification, after we capture their peculiarities against the main sources (especially institution treaties) which have given momentum and concreteness. Defining note of derivatives sources is peculiar physiognomy of these legal acts adopted by the Community institutions, which were equipped even by institutive treaties with skills of this kind. To this is added the legal force of such documents which vary considerably between them, some are compulsory (regulations, directives, decisions) and others being left at the latitude of the legal issuers involved in building the European Community construction (recommendations, proposals, resolutions, opinions). Iftime, E. (2015). HIERARCHY OF DERIVED LEGAL RULES OF EU. European Journal of Law and Public Administration, Year 2015, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 15-29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18662/eljpa/2015.0202.02