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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 50 No 1 (2004), 85–94
Ústavní soud po vstupu České republiky do Evropské unie
[Czech Constitutional Court after Czech European Union Accession]
Richard Král
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.33
published online: 14. 02. 2025
abstract
The article analyses the consequences of Czech EU accession for the Czech constitutional order and for the Czech Constitutional Court. After specifying the effects of Community legal order within Czech legal order, the article deals with the question whether Czech Constitution provides sufficient constitutional legal basis for both direct and indirect effect of Community legal order within Czech legal order. In this context it is submitted that as a constitutional basis for these effects may serve both article 10a and article 10 in combination with article 1/2 of the Czech Constitution. However in this respect it is criticized that article 10a lacks sufficient degree of transparency and article 10 lacks sufficient degree of clarity. As far as impact of Community legal order on Czech constitutional order concerns, the article comes to the conclusion that Community legal order shall become part of the Czech constitutional order but only to the extent the Czech constitutional order interferes in incompatible way into the sphere of application of Community legal order. Further, the article outlines the consequences of Community legal order for the jurisdiction and decision making of the Czech constitutional court. It is specified under what exceptional conditions the Court will have the jurisdiction to derogate Czech laws incompatible with Community legal order. Finally, the article supports the view that Czech constitutional court should use the preliminary ruling procedure before the ECJ. It is stressed in this respect that using this procedure is for the Czech constitutional court the only way to challenge the ultra vires Community acts.
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