Acquis Communautaire- seminar

obligatory courses

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The conversatory/seminar concentrates on identification and description of process of changes in catalogue of the sources of EU law and in the methods of harmonisation of law in the EU

The objective of the conversatory consists in the discussion of the latest processes and phenomena identyfied in the EU law, with a particular focus on changes in the methods of harmonisation of the EU market as well as changes in the catalogue of source of the EU law.

The list of topics considered and discussed in the course of classes includes:

1. The sources of the law of the European Union (types of legal acts, binding and not binding acts, legislative and nonlegislative acts, delegated and implemented acts - examples)

2. Documents of the Basel Committee for Banking Supervison and the International Accounting Standards as examples of functional sources of the EU law (legal character, role, subject of the regulation, addressees, impact on the acts of the EU law).

3. The regulation and its features.

4. The directive and its features.

5. The guidelines and the recommendations of European Supervisory Authorities. The recommendations of of European Systemic Risk Board (legal character, role, subject of the regulation, addressees).

6. The proportionality rule and the principle of subsidiarity (the genesis and the evolution, legal character, contents)

7. The changes in the method of the harmonization of the market of the EU and the change in the catalogue of sources of law in the EU, introduced in the aftermath of financial crisis on the example of the European Stability Mechanism and the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union.

8. The pro-EU interpretation of law (the features and the principles).

Workload of the student:

seminar - 30 h,

preparation for the seminar - 30 h,

learning before the exam - 30 h,

altogether - 90 h

A. Wróbel (red.), Traktat ustanawiający Wspólnote Europejską. Komentarz, t.III pod red. D. Kornobis-Romanowskiej i J. Łacny, Warszawa 2009.

J. Barcz i in., Wytyczne polityki legislacyjnej i techniki prawodawczej. Zapewnienie efektywności prawu Unii Europejskiej w polskim prawie krajowym (w wersji dostępnej na stronie: www.rcl.gov.pl/079_Wytyczne_v04_2009.pdf)

C. Kosikowski (red.), System Prawa Finansowego. Tom I. Teoria i nauka prawa finansowego, Warszawa 2010.

C. Kosikowski (red.), Przyszłość Unii Europejskiej w świetle jej ustroju walutowego i finansowego, Białystok 2013.

S. Wronkowska (red.), Polska kultura prawna a proces integracji europejskiej, Kraków 2005.

M. Olszak, Bankowe normy ostrożnościowe, Białystok 2011.

B. Kurcz, Dyrektywy Wspólnoty Europejskiej i ich implementacja do prawa krajowego, Kraków 2004.

K. Kowalik-Bańczyk, Prowspólnotowa wykładnia prawa polskiego, Europejski Przegląd Sądowy 2005, nr 12.

P. Craig, G. de Búrca, EU law: text, cases, and materials, Oxford 2008.

Europejski Przegląd Sądowy

Państwo i Prawo

Przegląd Sejmowy

Common Market Law Review

Europarecht

After the completion of the lecture student can:

- list and describe types, features of acts in the European law (legally binding and non-binding);

- list and describe legal character, role, subject of regulation, addressees of: documents (acts) of Basel Committee on Banking Supervison and the International Accounting Standards;

- list and describe features of regulation and directive;

- list and describe legal character, role, subject of regulation, addressees of: guidelines and recommendations of European Supervisory Authorities, recommendations of European Systemic Risk Board;

- describe genesis, legal character and the subject of the principle of proportionality and the principle of subsidiarity;

- list and describe: methods of harmonisation of law in the EU and changes in this area introduced in the aftermath of financial crisis and describe changes in catalogue of the sources of EU law introduced in the aftermath of financial crisis;

- list and describe features and principles of the pro-EU interpretation of law.

There are three prerequisites for completion of the conversatory: attending to the classes; 2) preparation of the presentation [e.g. in power point] and oral presenetation of the topic suggested by the teacher from the list of topics which are to be considered and discussed during the classes and answering questionsarising duinr or after the presentations; 3) passing test which covers the topics which have been discussed during the classses (i.. written work covering two questions (up to ten points each), to pass the test the student is expected to obtain at least 60% of points (e.g. 12 out of 20). If any of those three conditions is not met, the student will not complete the conversatory. If the student meets all these three conditions, then the final grade for the conversatory depends on three factors: 1) the student's active work during the class (up to 10% of the total number of points); 2) the quality of the presentation[e.g. in power point] and of the oral speech on the topic considered during the class (up to 40% of the total number of points); 3) the quality of the written test (up to 50% of the total number of points).