EU law worksheet with answers

Which are the four freedoms of the EU internal market?

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

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU has the same legal value as the Treaties since:

1. AThe Treaty of Lisbon (2009)
2. BThe Brexit agreement (2020)
3. CThe Treaty of Rome (1957)
4. DThe Maastricht Treaty (1993)

Article 30 TFEU prohibits between member states:

1. AAgreements between companies to share markets
2. BCustoms duties on imports and exports and charges having equivalent effect
3. CDiscriminatory internal taxation of products coming from other member states
4. DQuotas on the number of foreign workers employed

In Foto-Frost (1987), the Court held that national courts:

1. ACannot declare an EU act invalid themselves and must refer the question
2. BMust apply EU acts even if the Court of Justice has already declared them invalid
3. CCannot refer validity questions to the Court of Justice
4. DCan freely declare EU acts invalid

In Brasserie du Pêcheur and Factortame III (1996), the Court held that state liability:

1. ANever applies to acts of a national parliament
2. BCan arise from acts of the national legislature, if the breach is sufficiently serious
3. CRequires proof that the state acted intentionally
4. DOnly arises from failure to transpose a directive, not from other acts of the national legislature

Directives generally do NOT have:

1. AVertical direct effect against the state
2. BBinding force after the transposition deadline
3. CHorizontal direct effect between private parties
4. DAny legal effect at all

In Wightman (2018), the Court of Justice held that a member state that has notified its intention to withdraw under Article 50 TEU:

1. ACan revoke it only after the withdrawal agreement enters into force
2. BCannot revoke the notification under any circumstances
3. CMay revoke the notification unilaterally, in an unequivocal and unconditional way, before withdrawal takes effect
4. DCan revoke it only with the unanimous consent of the other member states

In Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (2013), the Court interpreted "regulatory act" in Article 263(4) TFEU to mean:

1. AAn act of general application other than a legislative act
2. BAny act adopted by the Commission or the Council
3. CAn act addressed to a specific individual
4. DAny regulation, whether legislative or not