EU law worksheet with answers

Which TFEU article prohibits restrictions on the freedom to provide services across borders?

1. AArticle 102
2. BArticle 56
3. CArticle 30
4. DArticle 49

The Schengen area mainly concerns:

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

Article 30 TFEU prohibits between member states:

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

Under Article 51 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the Charter binds member states:

1. AIn all their activities, including purely national matters
2. BOnly when they are implementing EU law
3. COnly when their constitution allows it
4. DNever, as it binds only the EU institutions

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

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

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

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 ASet the national law aside of its own motion, without waiting for it to be repealed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

The Kadi judgment (2008) is significant because the CJEU held that:

1. AThe EU has no competence in foreign policy
2. BEU measures implementing UN Security Council resolutions must respect EU fundamental rights
3. CIndividuals can never challenge sanctions
4. DUN Security Council resolutions always prevail over EU fundamental rights under the UN Charter

In Mangold (2005) and Kücükdeveci (2010), the Court allowed an individual to rely on EU law against a private employer because:

1. AThe directive on equal treatment in employment had horizontal direct effect in itself after the transposition deadline
2. BThe prohibition of age discrimination is a general principle of EU law, given expression in a directive
3. CThe national law had been annulled by the Commission
4. DThe employer was an emanation of the state