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Travaux to the EU Treaties: Preparatory Work as a Source of EU Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2015

Samuli MIETTINEN  and
Merita KETTUNEN
Samuli MIETTINEN
Affiliation:
Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki
Merita KETTUNEN
Affiliation:
Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki
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Abstract

The Court of Justice of the European Union has historically rejected references to preparatory work in the interpretation of EU Treaties. However, the preparatory work for the EURATOM, Maastricht, and Constitutional Treaties have played a role in recent judgments. The ‘explanations’ to the Charter of Fundamental Rights are expressly approved in the current Treaties. We examine the emerging case law on preparatory work. Reference to the drafters’ intent does not necessarily support dynamic interpretation, and may potentially even ossify historical interpretations. Even if the consequence of their introduction is a conservative interpretation, their use raises questions of transparency and democracy, and complicates the already difficult task of interpreting the EU constitution.

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travaux préparatoiresdrafting historysources of lawTreaty interpretation
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Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies , Volume 17 , December 2015 , pp. 145 - 167
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We are grateful to Professor Kenneth Armstrong, the participants of the 2015 European Union Studies Association conference at which an earlier draft of this paper was presented, our anonymous reviewers, and our colleague Amalia Verdu for their insightful questions and comments.

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  1. 1.

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  2. 2.

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    1. (a)

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    2. (b)

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  3. 3.

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    1. (a)

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    2. (b)

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    3. (c)

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  4. 4.

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  1. (a)

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  2. (b)

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33 Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union 2012/C 326/02: ‘… with due regard to the explanations prepared under the authority of the Praesidium of the Convention which drafted the Charter and updated under the responsibility of the Praesidium of the European Convention’.

34 Article II-112: ‘The Explanations written as an aid to interpreting the Charter of Fundamental Rights are duly taken into consideration by the courts of the Union and the Member States’.

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44 Ibid, para 29.

45 Ibid, para 44.

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47 Ibid, para 137.

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90 Secretariat of the European Convention, Final Report of Working Group III on Legal Personality (2002) CONV 305/02, WG III 16.

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