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France Conseil Constitutionnel on the Status of (Secondary) Community Law in the French Internal Order. Decision of 10 June 2004, 2004-496 DC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2005

Jan Herman Reestman
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Abstract

Shortly before the European Council reached political agreement on the European Constitutional Treaty (18 June 2004), the Conseil constitutionnel [the French constitutional court], rendered a decision on the relationship between (secondary) community law and the French Constitution that will still be pivotal once the Constitutional Treaty has entered into force. Taken on 10 June 2004, the decision was only made public five days later. The Conseil feared that it would be presented as ‘a French abdication in the face of the European institutions’ and might influence the elections for the European Parliament of 13 June 2004.

Keywords

Conseil ConstitutionnelStatus of Community LawFrench CommunityImplementation of DirectivesConstitutional DutyDisposition Expresse Contraire de la ConstitutionConditional Declaration of Conformity
Type
Case Notes
Information
European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 302 - 317
Copyright
© Asser Press 2005

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Footnotes

The decision, as all other decisions of the Conseil constitutionnel (CC), can be found on www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr.