La introducción de principios de mejora de la legislación tuvo su origen en el deseo de mejorar la gobernanza europea y de anclar el desarrollo sostenible en la elaboración de las políticas de la Unión examinando de manera conjunta las repercusiones económicas, sociales y medioambientales. Legis...
Los ciudadanos no quieren una Europa que invada su vida cotidiana de forma innecesaria. Esta es la razón por la que la Comisión Juncker no regula sectores como los de las latas de aceite o las flores de ducha, sino que se centra en aquellos objetivos que podemos alcanzar mejor actuando juntos en...
La Comisión Juncker se comprometió a aplicar una política de la UE que fuera claramente fructífera para los ciudadanos y las empresas europeas. Hemos introducido políticas más abiertas, participativas y basadas en pruebas que nos han permitido escuchar atentamente lo que los europeos tienen que ...
El Derecho europeo es la esencia de la especificidad de la Unión Europea. Sin él, dependeríamos de la cooperación y la buena voluntad, dos componentes esenciales para que Europa funcione, pero no suficientes para garantizar las libertades y los derechos de que disfrutan los europeos hoy en día. ...
Procurement law is rising in importance year after year. According to the European Commission, public procurement now accounts for over 14% of the EU’s gross domestic product. Also at the ECB, spending through procurement is growing, and the evolution of its procurement law from non-binding inte...
The principle of subsidiarity requires decisions to be taken at the lowest practical level of government without, however, jeopardising mutually beneficial cooperation at the supranational level. Recent decades have seen efforts to strengthen the subsidiarity principle in EU law, including the i...
The Juncker Commission came into office with a commitment to do different things and to do them differently. It wanted to focus on delivering the initiatives needed to support its 10 political priorities and address the issues that really matter to people in the EU. Under its Union for democrati...
This report aims at providing an overview of the literature debate addressing the Better Regulation Agenda adopted by the European Commission in 2015 (henceforth, also indicated as BR 2015). The review, which focuses on peer-reviewed and grey literature published from 2015 onwards, has been stru...
This thesis presents a phenomenology of deference in proportionality. There is a relatively broad consensus that proportionality balancing as a method for resolving conflicts of fundamental rights in cases of judicial review needs to be coupled with some kind of doctrine of deference. Although t...
The principle of proportionality has been described as ‘the most important general legal principle in Common Market law’. In short, the principle requires that there must be some sort of proportionality between the end an administration or a legislator wants to reach and the means used to reach ...