THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSONALITY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AFTER THE LISBON TREATY
THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSONALITY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AFTER THE LISBON TREATY
Author(s): Jose Manuel Sobrino HerediaSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, EU-Legislation
Published by: Editura Hamangiu S.R.L.
Keywords: European Union; International legal personality; International Organizations; “Rules of the Organization”; International agreement; European External Action Service; High Representative of the Union f
Summary/Abstract: The European Union has its own legal existence. Art. 47 of Treaty on the European Union refers to it when it states that the Union has legal personality. What characterizes this personality and the difference of that of the States is it will be restricted to the objectives and functions bestowed on it by its Member States, as they appear in or can be deduced from its founding Treaties and have been developed in practice and legally interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union. This paper examines precisely the scope of this personality and to what extent the Lisbon Treaty has come to add elements of international visibility to the EU. To do this, in the first part of it we study the process leading to the explicit recognition of this personality and, in its second part, it addresses how and in what material and spatial areas the international legal personality of the European Union has deployed.
Journal: Analele Universității Titu Maiorescu
- Issue Year: 2010
- Issue No: IX
- Page Range: 56-82
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English