EU legal acts are: regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions (Article 288 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union). ...

Types of EU legal acts · EU treaties · Regulations · Directives · Decisions · Recommendations · Opinions · Delegated acts · Implementing acts.

Legal Acts of the European Union are laws which are adopted by the Institutions of the European Union in order to exercise the powers given to them by the ...

The European Union has a number of legal instruments to its disposal. These are used to make or coordinate policies, to take measures and initiate programme's.

European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). History · Free movement and trade · Public regulation

The European Union pursues the objectives set out in its Treaties through several types of legal acts. Some of them are legally binding, others are not.

In this collection of essays, originally presented at the Academy of European Law in Florence, the changing landscape of the EU's legal acts is explored.

Directives are binding legal acts that set out a goal that all EU member states must achieve. Regarding the results that have to be achieved, directives are ...

Acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure (OLP). This is the most commonly used procedure for adopting EU legislative acts in the EU. It involves ...

1. EU legislation comes in three main forms: directives , regulations , and decisions . Directives are the most important and most general of the three. There ...