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SOURCE OF LAW - Coggle Diagram
SOURCE OF LAW
SECONDARY LAW
Regulations
Have direct applicability
automatically transposed into the domestic law
Directives
Not directly applicable
leave Member States discretion as to how to achieve its implementation
Decisions
may have "direct effect" enabling third parties to rely on them in action against the addresee
issued by the Council and Commission
Recommendation & opinions
Have no binding force
Do not have direct effect
"the national courts are bound to take recoomendations into consideration"
Supplementary case law
the unwritten sources of law developed by the case law of the Court of Justice
PRIMARY LAW
Treaties
TEU
TFEU