Course detail

Basics of EU law

FP-FpeuPAcad. year: 2016/2017

The course covers the following issues: history and development of European integration. The emergence of three European Communities. Methods and forms of integration, nadstátnost. The European Community as a specific entity. The organizational construction of the Community. The so-called. Institutional Law. Establishing a Community Treaty as a constitution. The concept of European Community law - the right to primary and secondary law. Sources, bases its coexistence with the law of the Member States. The role of the European Court of Justice in the development and application of law. Basic principles of joint and single internal market.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. JUDr. Filip Křepelka, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Finances (ÚF)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will know the theoretical background and the resulting positive legal regulation. They will acquire the EU institutions, which is the subject of focus. They will be able to understand the legal standards in terms of their systematic arrangement, they will understand the basic legal terminology and will be able to use legal terminology needed in the application of commercial standards as in other related legal and economic subjects and in their future professional practice.

Prerequisites

Students must be aware of basic legal concepts.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures consist of an explanation of basic principles, methodology of the discipline, problems and their solutions.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credit is not awarded.
The test takes the form of a written test. The test consists of 30 questions with 4 response options, which is always only one correct answer. Validated knowledge is subject. The classification is in accordance with Directive Entrepreneurial faculties are.

Course curriculum

• Introduction to course
• The role of EU institutions in the development and application of economic and commercial law of the EU. Sources rights.
• Legal aspects of free circulation of goods, labor, capital, freedom to provide services and freedom of enterprise.
• Competition in EU law.
• Consumer protection in EU law.
• Company law governed by EU law

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The main objective of the course is the basic orientation of students in European Union law, that provide students with basic knowledge on the development of EC and EU since the inception of the present, institutional law, the concept and nature of EC and the EU including in relation to the law of national and EC law to the material, thus regulation EC single market with everything related to it. The course also deals with the second and third pillars of the EU and the relationship of CR to the EC as an associated state.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance at lectures is voluntary.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Křepelka F. a kol., Právo Evropské unie – multimediální učební text, 4. vydání, Masarykova univerzita – Právnická fakulta, Brno, elektronická verze 2013 Tomášek M., Týč V. a kol., Základy evropského práva, 2. vydání, Leges, 2017 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MGR Master's

    branch MGR-UFRP , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. JUDr. Filip Křepelka, Ph.D.

Syllabus

- History and development of European integration.
- Establishment of three European Communities. Methods and forms of integration, nadstátnost.
- The European Community as a specific entity. The organizational construction of the Community.
- The so-called. Institutional Law. Establishing a Community Treaty as a constitution.
- The concept of European Community law - the right to primary and secondary law.
- Origins of the principle of coexistence with the law of the Member States.
- The role of the European Court of Justice in the development and application of law.
- Basic principles of joint and single internal market.

E-learning texts

Skripta - právo Evropské unie
Krepelka_a_kol-mmt_Pravo_Evropske_unie_2013.pdf 0.69 MB
Otázky PEU
Právo Evropské unie.zip 0.4 MB
Křepelka a kol-mmt Právo Evropské unie 2013.pdf 0.69 MB
Pravo_EU-PF VUT-2018-Krepelka.ppt 1.01 MB