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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 50 No 1 (2004), 45–58
Ústavní zakotvení účinků práva Evropské unie v České republice
[Constitutional Basis of the Effects of the European Union Law in the Czech Republic]
Jiří Zemánek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.30
published online: 14. 02. 2025
abstract
The contemporary debate on the effects of European law within the Czech legal system after the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union questions the European clause of the Czech Constitution (Act no. 395/2001 Coll.) as a reliable point of departure for decision-making by the Czech judicial authorities. The ECJ doctrines of direct applicability and supremacy of EC law (duly to apply the EC law provisions and the duty to disapply the respective national law provisions) cannot be comprehended through the nationally based monistic approach to the effects of international treaties, as the national constitutional autonomy has been constrained by the implicit waiver of some parts of sovereignty through the Accession Treaty. The picture of practice of the existing Member States shows that the friendly application of EC law results from living constitutions even under restraint constitutional texts and without any explicit instruction for national judicial authorities at the national level. Therefore, the Czech European clause must be interpreted in a way compatible with principles of uniform application of the EC law derived from the EC Treaty by the ECJ. Such an interpretation cannot be regarded as unconstitutional. There is couple of political and legal remedies which should be used to avoid a conflict of the Czech constitutional law provisions with the EC law.
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