Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.25234/pv/10408
DIALOGUES BETWEEN CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS OF THE EU MEMBER STATES AND THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
Stjepan Novak
orcid.org/0000-0002-6600-4974
; Ministry of Internal Affairs, Republic of Croatia, Ulica grada Vukovara 33, 10 000 Zagreb
Abstract
In the context of the discourse on constitutional identities, national constitutional courts enter into various forms of dialogue with the Court of Justice of the EU. After having engaged for an extended period of time in exclusively indirect dialogues that were more or less successful and were realised through their own practices, national constitutional courts started making use of the possibility offered to them pursuant to Article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, i.e., the preliminary ruling procedure. The paper aims to prove that the dialogues which constitutional courts engage in with the Court of Justice of the EU are the most successful forms of their communication. For that purpose the paper compares these dialogues with indirect forms of communication between constitutional courts and the Court of Justice of the EU. It is in this context that the paper, following introductory considerations in the second part, considers the concept of constitutional identity from the viewpoint of the Court of Justice of the EU and the viewpoint of national constitutional courts. The third part of the paper analyses different forms of indirect dialogue between constitutional courts and the Court of Justice of the EU and draws conclusions about their effectiveness. The fourth part analyses particular procedures instituted before the Court of Justice of the EU by constitutional courts and points out the pros and cons of these procedures. Finally, the paper concludes that the procedures instituted by national constitutional courts pursuant to Article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union are the most direct and the most efficient forms of their communication with this Court.
Keywords
national constitutional courts; the Court of Justice of the European Union; dialogue, constitutional identity; preliminary ruling procedure; Article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)
Hrčak ID:
250011
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2020.
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