Chapter 22

Instructions

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Question 1

True or false: The ECJ has the power to annul Community legislation.

a) True

b) False

Question 2

Who requests preliminary rulings from the ECJ?

a) The Court of First Instance

b) The Commission

c) The Council of Ministers

d) Member state courts

Question 3

True or false: The Isoglucose ruling effectively gave the European Parliament the power of veto.

a) True

b) False

Question 4

Which institution expanded its powers under the Les Verts ruling?

a) The European Court of Justice

b) The Council

c) The Commission

d) None of the above

Question 5

True or false: The Treaty of Rome established the doctrine of the supremacy of EC law.

a) True

b) False

Question 6

What ruling established the principle of direct effect?

a) Van Gend en Loos (1963)

b) Costa v. ENEL (1964)

c) Van Duyn v. Home Office (1974)

d) Factortame (1990)

Question 7

Why was the 1990 Factortame ruling significant?

a) It overturned a British Act of Parliament

b) It established the principle of supremacy of EC law

c) It extended the powers of the European Parliament

d) It established the principle of direct effect of EC law

Question 8

What is the principle of subsidiarity?

a) The principle that decisions should be taken by the lowest level of government

b) The principle that competences should be divided between member states and the EU as clearly as possible

c) The principle that the Union's actions should be as transparent as possible

d) The principle that no new powers should be transferred to the EU without unanimous member state consent

Question 9

Which of these is an intergovernmental account of ECJ behaviour?

a) The ECJ has deliberately acted as an engine of integration

b) The ECJ anticipates member state reactions to its rulings and acts accordingly

c) The ECJ uses the law as a 'mask and shield' to hide its integrationist strategy

d) Over time, a European legal network has developed

Question 10

Which of the following could be considered to be a form of spillover?

a) The creation of a Court of First Instance

b) National courts making use of EC law and the preliminary reference procedure to increase their powers

c) ECJ reluctance to rule against the interests of powerful member states

d) Member state support for a neutral ECJ

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