EU law worksheet with answers

Which are the four freedoms of the EU internal market?

1. AFree movement of goods, persons, services and capital
2. BFreedom of speech, religion, assembly and press
3. CFree education, health care, housing and transport
4. DFree trade, free elections, free media and free courts

Where is the Court of Justice of the European Union based?

1. AStrasbourg
2. BBrussels
3. CThe Hague
4. DLuxembourg

Where is the European Central Bank based?

1. ABrussels
2. BFrankfurt am Main
3. CLuxembourg
4. DParis

The "public service" exception in Article 45(4) TFEU covers:

1. AJobs in companies that have government contracts
2. BAny job paid for by public funds
3. CAll jobs in the public sector, including those of nurses, teachers and railway workers employed by the state
4. DPosts involving the exercise of public power and safeguarding the general interests of the state

In Dillenkofer (1996), the Court held that a complete failure to transpose a directive on time is:

1. AIn itself a sufficiently serious breach for state liability
2. BExcused if the state was busy with elections
3. CSerious only if the Commission has first warned the state in a reasoned opinion
4. DNever a ground for state liability

A member state taxes imported whisky more heavily than a similar domestic spirit. Which provision is most directly breached?

1. AArticle 45 TFEU on workers
2. BArticle 30 TFEU on customs duties and charges having equivalent effect
3. CArticle 110 TFEU on discriminatory internal taxation
4. DArticle 101 TFEU on cartels

In Åkerberg Fransson (2013), a Swedish fisherman faced tax penalties and criminal proceedings for VAT fraud. The Court held that the Charter applied because:

1. ASweden had incorporated the Charter into its constitution
2. BThe fisherman was an EU institution employee
3. CThe national measures fell within the scope of EU law on VAT and the EU's financial interests
4. DThe Charter applies to every action of a member state, whether or not it involves EU law in any way

In Aranyosi and Căldăraru (2016), the Court held that a judicial authority executing a European Arrest Warrant:

1. AMust ask the European Court of Human Rights for permission
2. BMust always surrender the person, whatever the prison conditions
3. CMay postpone surrender if there is a real risk of inhuman or degrading detention conditions for that person
4. DCan refuse any warrant from a state it distrusts in general