EU law worksheet with answers

Which EU institution proposes most new EU legislation?

1. AThe European Commission
2. BThe European Central Bank
3. CThe Court of Justice
4. DThe European Parliament

Which of these is an exclusive competence of the EU under Article 3 TFEU?

1. AThe common commercial policy
2. BTourism
3. CEducation and culture
4. DHealth care organisation

The Schengen area mainly concerns:

1. AThe common rules on competition between companies
2. BThe use of the euro as a single currency
3. CThe election of the European Parliament
4. DThe abolition of checks on persons at internal borders

The Cassis de Dijon judgment introduced:

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

Internationale Handelsgesellschaft (1970) held that the validity of a Community measure:

1. ACan be reviewed by any national court that doubts it
2. BDepends on its compatibility with the fundamental rights in each national constitution
3. CCannot be affected by claims that it breaches national constitutional rights
4. DRequires approval by a national referendum

In Simmenthal (1978), the Court of Justice held that a national court faced with a national law conflicting with EU law must:

1. AWait for the national constitutional court to annul the law before it can disapply it
2. BAsk the national parliament to amend the law first
3. CSet the national law aside of its own motion, without waiting for it to be repealed
4. DApply the national law if it was adopted later

In AKZO (1991), the Court of Justice stated that a market share of 50% or more:

1. AIs required before any investigation of dominance
2. BIs automatically an abuse of a dominant position, without any further analysis being needed by the Commission
3. CCan in itself be evidence of a dominant position, in the absence of exceptional circumstances
4. DIs irrelevant to the assessment of dominance

In Unión de Pequeños Agricultores (UPA, 2002), the Court of Justice held that the Plaumann test:

1. AWas incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights
2. BCould not be relaxed by the Court, as effective remedies are the responsibility of national systems and treaty amendment
3. CApplies only to regulations, not to decisions
4. DShould be relaxed, as the Advocate General proposed, to a "substantial adverse effect" test wherever no national remedy exists