European Parliament legislative-initiative reports are automatically accompanied by a European Added Value Assessment (EAVA). Such assessments are aimed at evaluating the potential impacts, and identifying the advantages, of proposals made in legislative-initiative reports. This EAVA accompanies...
The European Union legislation on blood and tissues and cells aims to safeguard public health by setting clear standards for quality and safety. The legislation on blood comprises Directive 2002/98/EC and implementing (technical) Directives 2004/33/EC as amended, 2005/61/EC, 2005/62/EC and 2009/...
This paper considers how the ECB can implement its mandate in the current crisis conditions and the legal constraints that exist on its actions. The current position of the euro area economy means the threat to meeting the ECB’s primary objective of price stability stems from the possibility of ...
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, analyses the law and practice of EU association agreements. It maps out different types of association agreements concluded on the legal b...
This briefing, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, looks into the issue of the governance of the UK Withdrawal Agreement from the perspective of the UK legal and constitutional order. It...
This report analyses the ECB mandate in light of its primary objective of price stability along with its secondary objective to support the general economic policies in the Union (Article 127 TFEU), which include employment, growth, climate change, and the quality of the environment, bearing in ...
This report provides a summary of the panel’s work and informs the reader of how the criteria set out in the Treaty have been interpreted and which working methods the panel has used....
