Traduction de «disposition du droit constitutionnel » (Français → Anglais) :

Born 1952; law degree at the University of Vilnius (1974-79); Doctor of Legal Science of the Law University of Lithuania (1999); Member of the Lithuanian Bar (1979-90); Member of the Supreme Council (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania (1990-92), then Member of the Seimas(Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania and Member of the Seimas‘ State and Law Committee (1992-96); Judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania (1996-2005), then Adviser to the President of the Lithuanian Constitutional Court (from 2006); Lecturer in the Constitutional Law Department of the Law Faculty of Mykolas Romeris University (1997- ...[+++]2000), then Associate Professor (2000-04) and Professor (from 2004) in that department, and finally Head of the department (2005-07); Dean of the Law Faculty of Mykolas Romeris University (2007-10); Member of the Venice Commission (2006-10); signatory of the act of 11 March 1990 re-establishing Lithuania’s independence; author of numerous legal publications; Judge at the Court of Justice since 6 October 2010.

Also, in that regard, at first blush, there may be some concern therefore that while the existing legislation has allowed, under civil law, delictual law in Quebec or the common law of tort, remedies to be taken, this legislation, either that proposed by the government or that proposed by us, raises some constitutional concerns because it attaches civil remedies to federal legislation when such civil remedies are normally thought to be matters within a provincial jurisdiction.

Born 1931; Professor of Constitutional Law and General and Comparative Public Law at the Universities of Padua, Bologna and Rome; Member of the High Council of the Judiciary (1976-78); Member of the Constitutional Court and President of the Constitutional Court (1986-87); Minister for Community Policy (1987-89); elected to the European Parliament (1989-94); Judge at the Court of Justice from 7 October 1994 to 31 December 1994; Advocate General at the Court of Justice from 1 January 1995 to 14 December 1999; Judge at the Court of Justice from 15 December 1999 to 3 May 2006.

The members of the Council are accountable to the national parliaments for all of these legal acts in accordance with the standards of their respective constitutional provisions.

Until a few years ago, the relationship between Community law, on the one hand, and national constitutional law, on the other, seemed largely to have been clarified: although the Community Treaties contain no explicit provisions governing the question of hierarchy, the European Court of Justice had consistently upheld, since its 1964 and 1970 judgments in the cases of Costa v. ENEL and Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, the absolute supremacy of both primary and secondary Community law over all provisions of national law - including constitutional law and the fundamental rights guaranteed thereby. While the Member States' national const ...[+++]itutional courts initially concurred with this legal viewpoint to a very large extent, recent years have seen the development of resistance, which has been spearheaded by the decidedly nationally-minded judgments, which are only partially supportive of integration, issued by the German Federal Constitutional Court and the Danish Supreme Court.

- the only criteria which the EU Court of Justice needs to use when deciding on the validity of Community legislation are the Treaties and recognized legal principles of Community law (in other words, national constitutional provisions, in particular basic rights, count as criteria for the Court of Justice only to the extent that they arise as Community basic rights out of the constitutional traditions common to the Member States).