Balancing Unity and Diversity in EU Legislation

Edited by Ton van den Brink, Professor and Jean Monnet chair of EU Legislative Studies, Utrecht Centre for Shared Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE), Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands and Virginia Passalacqua, Assistant Professor of EU Law, Department of Law, University of Turin, Italy

• Contents1 Introduction: balancing unity and diversity in EU legislationTon van den Brink and Virginia Passalacqua2 Recent trends in EU internal market legislationSybe A. de Vries3 Harmonization through adjudicationGunnar Thor Petursson and Xavier Groussot4 Emergency legislation in European Union lawSalvatore Fabio Nicolosi5 EU norms posing institutional obligations on Member StatesCristina Fasone6 The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and the uneasy relationship between maximum harmonisation, open norms and self-regulationBram Duivenvoorde7 Consumer protection directives and private law enforcementJan Biemans8 Regulatory harmonization and fragmentation in the Capital Markets UnionMatteo Gargantini9 Private enforcement of competition lawMałgorzata Kozak10 On discretion and sustainability in EU public procurement lawWillem A. Janssen11 Minimum harmonization, experimentation and the internal market Vincent Delhomme12 The EU’s international commitments and their impact onthe EU legislative processDorin-Ciprian Grumaz13 Unity and diversity in the Common Agricultural PolicyPauline Phoa14 Synthesis – balancing unity and diversity in composite legislative frameworksTon van den Brink and Virginia PassalacquaIndex

‘In this remarkable book, a new generation of EU law scholars revisits what is, and remains, the central legal tool of European integration, namely the adoption and implementation of EU legislation, by paying special attention to the way unity and diversity are balanced in the content of those legislative instruments.’