Implementing EU law into national law

Réduisez le risque d’infractions en matière d’implémentation de la réglementation européenne !

La Cour de justice constate depuis 2016 une nouvelle augmentation du nombre d’infractions en matière d’implémentation de la réglementation européenne. Une meilleure compréhension de la nature précise des obligations en matière d’implémentation, des attentes de la Commission et comment combiner celles-ci avec les priorités nationales, vous aide à aligner correctement et dans les délais la législation nationale sur la législation européenne. De cette manière, vous réduisez le risque d’être concerné par des enquêtes en matière d’infraction, qui prennent beaucoup de temps.

En pratique

Ce workshop vous propose des méthodes et des outils pratiques permettant de satisfaire aux obligations européennes et vous aide à mettre en équilibre les intérêts politiques nationaux et supranationaux et les obligations légales et constitutionnelles.

Pour les juristes ou les collaborateurs qui ont pour tâche de faire en sorte que la législation européenne soit intégrée dans la législation nationale.

Vous possédez l’expérience juridique nécessaire et vous connaissez bien le processus d’intégration de la législation européenne dans la législation nationale.

Vous comprenez bien l’anglais (juridique).

Day 1

The three dimensions of EU policy and law implementation

Linking EU and national legislation

Treaty obligations regarding implementation, self-imposed legal obligations (acquis) and definitions and structure of EU legal acts will be reviewed and discussed. Also questions related to so-called “soft law” and “approximation versus harmonisation” will be considered.
 

Identifying legal acts after Lisbon

Working in groups, participants will be asked to analyze legal acts (regulations, directives, decisions and delegated acts) and identify obligations in terms of implementation measures, organizational and reporting requirements, time limits, etc.

Implementation process management

How to efficiently organize and work in an ”implementation project”? (consultation procedures, relations between ministries and agencies, the role of process planning and the ever important question: Who takes the lead?)

National processes of implementation and stakeholders

Who does what and when? Involvement of national governments, NGOs and local and regional governments in dealing with the EU. Participants will be asked to identify national tasks, stakeholders, sources of information and elements to consider when planning the implementation process.

Day 2

Implementing measures and administrative capacities

Building upon the previous day’s sessions, this session reviews the national implementation measures, which Member States need to introduce into national law, when transposing directives and establishing the legal and organizational frameworks to apply and enforce regulations.

Delegation and coordination at the national level

This session pays particular attention to the importance of national coordination when deciding upon delegation and adopting implementation measures as well as the reasons why, including the links between the implementers and those, who negotiated the EU legislation to be implemented.

Exchange of experiences: national coordination of law approximation – the Belgian case
 

Formalities not to be forgotten: notification instruments

Upon completing the national law approximation process, Member States must notify the Commission and/or the Council Secretariat of the result. Although attempts are being made to streamline these notifications, various notification instruments are still being used by different MS. While examples hereof will be given, special attention will be paid to the Commission’s web-based notification system – NEM. In addition, Correlation Tables and Tables of Concordance and their uses as planning instruments will be reviewed.
 

Simulation: planning the law approximation process

Participants are divided into groups and given different tasks, which normally need to be considered when preparing a plan to implement an EU legal act. They are also asked to identify problems and come up with solutions.
 

Consequences of not meeting the implementation obligations

What reactions can be expected? This session provides a practical overview of the impact of the direct effect of EU law, the principle of state liability and the infringement procedure after Lisbon.