EU law worksheet with answers

Article 30 TFEU prohibits between member states:

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

How is the President of the European Commission chosen?

1. AAppointed by the Court of Justice
2. BChosen by the outgoing Commission
3. CProposed by the European Council by qualified majority, then elected by the European Parliament
4. DElected directly by EU citizens in a separate vote

Which are the four freedoms of the EU internal market?

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

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

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

According to the Dassonville formula, a measure having equivalent effect to a quantitative restriction is:

1. AOnly a rule that fixes a numerical limit on imports
2. BAny tax on goods coming from another member state
3. COnly a rule that openly discriminates against imported goods in favour of domestic products of the same kind
4. DAny trading rule capable of hindering, directly or indirectly, actually or potentially, intra-EU trade

Van Gend en Loos (1963) established that:

1. ATreaty provisions can have direct effect and create rights for individuals in national courts
2. BDirectives have horizontal direct effect
3. CTreaty provisions bind only the member states and never create rights for individuals before national courts
4. DMember states can leave the EU at will

In Säger v Dennemeyer (1991), the Court held that Article 56 TFEU requires the abolition of:

1. AOnly rules adopted after the provider has arrived
2. BAny restriction, even if non-discriminatory, liable to prohibit or impede the services of a provider from another member state
3. COnly rules that openly discriminate on grounds of nationality
4. DAll national licensing requirements, without exception, even where they protect service recipients and are applied proportionately

In Plaumann (1963), a clementine importer challenged a Commission decision addressed to Germany. The Court held that a non-addressee is individually concerned only if:

1. AThey belong to the economic sector affected and carry on the commercial activity that the act regulates, like any other importer
2. BThey suffer a financial loss from the act
3. CThe act affects them because of attributes or circumstances that distinguish them from all other persons
4. DThey have written to the Commission before the act