EU law worksheet with answers

An EU directive must be:

1. ATransposed into national law by a deadline
2. BApplied directly without any national measure
3. CIgnored if the state disagrees
4. DApproved by a referendum in each state

The European Council consists of:

1. AThe heads of state or government of the member states, its President and the Commission President
2. BThe ministers of the member states for each policy area, chaired by the rotating Council presidency
3. CThe Members of the European Parliament elected in each state
4. DThe judges of the Court of Justice and the General Court

Which treaty, signed in 1957, established the European Economic Community?

1. AThe Treaty of Paris
2. BThe Treaty of Rome
3. CThe Treaty of Nice
4. DThe Treaty of Maastricht

In Commission v Ireland ("Buy Irish", 1982), a campaign promoting Irish products breached Article 34 because:

1. AIt set quotas on goods from other member states
2. BIt was run by private companies without state involvement
3. CIt imposed a charge having equivalent effect to a customs duty on goods imported from other member states
4. DIt was a state-supported measure capable of influencing traders to prefer domestic goods

Directives generally do NOT have:

1. AHorizontal direct effect between private parties
2. BAny legal effect at all
3. CBinding force after the transposition deadline
4. DVertical direct effect against the state

The Cassis de Dijon judgment introduced:

1. AMutual recognition and mandatory requirements as justifications for indistinctly applicable measures
2. BEU citizenship
3. CState liability
4. DThe rule that indistinctly applicable measures can be justified only on the grounds listed exhaustively in Article 36 TFEU

In Dorsch Consult (1997), the Court listed factors for deciding whether a body is a "court or tribunal" that may refer under Article 267, including whether it:

1. AHas judges who trained in EU law
2. BIs established by law, permanent, independent and applies rules of law
3. CIs a court of last instance
4. DIs called a court in national law and hears appeals from the lower courts

In Rottmann (2010), Germany withdrew a naturalisation obtained by deception, leaving the person stateless. The Court held:

1. AMember states can never withdraw nationality once granted if doing so would make the person stateless
2. BThe withdrawal fell within the scope of EU law and had to respect the principle of proportionality
3. CNationality is purely national, so EU law is irrelevant
4. DThe person automatically regained his previous nationality