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I semester
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Prof. Giuseppe Nesi
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6 hours/week
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10 weeks
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assessment examination:
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written and oral
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credits: 8
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STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE
The course has an institutional character and aims at equipping the
students with the basic knowledge and with the tools for understanding
and deepening the study of EC law.
Knowledge of basic notions of international law, constitutional law
and of the relationships between international organisations and States
is required, as well as of the English and/or French language.
The course is divided in a general and in a special part.
PROGRAMME:
General part.
The integration process of the European Community from its origins
until today; European institutions in their structural and functional aspects
(analysing in particular recent developments in the field of foreign policy
and common defence); finances and budgets; Community acts (types, law-making
procedures, effects); judicial protection; EC relationships with national
Governments; external relationships of EC; foreign policy; common security;
the role of the Regions in the enforcement process of EC Law.
Special part.
Community policies: freedom of movement; legislative harmonisation;
social policies; agricultural policy; contents and implementation within
the EC and within the national States. Special attention this year will
be devoted to the issue arising from the European Union Charter of fundamental
rights and to the Intergovernmental Conference that will be finished by
the end of year 2000.
Only part of the topics of the special part wil be address during the
lectures.
Integrative activities:
Exercises and seminars on specific topics and on case-law will be held
during the course. Information will be provided during the course.
ASSESSMENT EXAMINATION:
The exam is composed of a written and an oral part. The written exam
will test the knowledge of the general part (no text can be used during
the exam). The oral exam takes place usually within three days from the
written one: it will consist of the discussion of the results of the written
exam and of the special part of the course.
SUGGESTED READINGS
General part:
L. FERRARI BRAVO - E. MOAVERO MILANESI, Lezioni di diritto comunitario,
Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, III ed., 1997 (pp. 1-192)
A. TIZZANO, Il Trattato di Amsterdam, CEDAM, Padova, 2000
Special part:
L. FERRARI BRAVO – E. MOAVERO MILANESI, Lezioni di diritto comunitario,
2nd ed., Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2000 (pp. 195-599)
Or
G. STROZZI (edited by), Diritto sostanziale dell'Unione europea, Giappichelli,
Torino, 2000 (forthcoming)
Non-attending students should check further materials that will handed
in to the photocopying center of the Faculty during the course.
Knowledge of the EC Treaties and their modifications is required. The
texts of the EU and of Amsterdam is in the abovementioned volume by Tizzano.
For a better overview of the integration process we suggest:
B. NASCIMBENE, Comunità e Unione Europea, Codice delle Istituzioni,
Giappichelli, Torino, 1999
or
A.TIZZANO, Codice dell’ Unione Europea, 2nd ed., Cedam, Padova, 1998.
Or
L. FERRARI BRAVO e V. RIZZO, Il codice dell'Unione Europea, Giuffrè,
Milano, 2000
