THE EUROPEANISATION OF LAW: THE LEGAL EFFECTS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION STUDIES IN EUROPEAN LAW AND INTEGRATION General Editors Professor Francis Snyder Professor Miguel Maduro Advisory Editors Professor Christian Joerges (EUI, Florence) Professor Jo Shaw (Leeds) Professor Joseph Weiler (Harvard) Professor Stephen Weatherill (Oxford) Titles in this Series Rein Wesseling: Constitutional Developments in EC Competition Law Candido Garcia Molyneux: The Unfair Trade Instruments of the EU and USA Francis Snyder (ed.): The Europeanisation of Law: The Legal Effects of European Integration The Europeanisation of Law: The Legal Effects of European Integration Edited on behalf of the Department of Law, European University Institute by FRANCIS SNYDER Professor of European Community Law, European University Institute, Florence; Professor of Law, College of Europe, Bruges; Honorary Visiting Professor of Law, University College London OXFORD – PORTLAND OREGON 2000 Hart Publishing Oxford and Portland, Oregon Published in North America (US and Canada) by Hart Publishing c/o International Specialized Book Services 5804 NE Hassalo Street Portland, Oregon 97213-3644 USA Distributed in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg by Intersentia, Churchillaan 108 B2900 Schoten Antwerpen Belgium © The contributors severally 2000 The contributors have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, to be identified as the authors of this work Hart Publishing Ltd is a specialist legal publisher based in Oxford, England. To order further copies of this book or to request a list of other publications please write to: Hart Publishing Ltd, Salter’s Boatyard, Folly Bridge, Abingdon Road, Oxford OX1 4LB Telephone: +44 (0)1865 245533 or Fax: +44 (0)1865 794882 e-mail:
[email protected] www.hartpub.co.uk British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data Available ISBN 1 84113–025–7 (cloth) Typeset by Hope Services (Abingdon) Ltd. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, www.biddles.co.uk Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Table of Cases Table of Legislation 1. The EUI Law Department and the Europeanisation of Law: An Introduction Francis Snyder PART I . 1 JURIDIFICATION OF POLITICS 2. Integration Through Law Revisited: Some Thoughts on the Juridification of the European Political Process Renaud Dehousse 3. Should Public Prosecution Be Independent? Luis María Díez-Picazo PART II . vii ix xi xvii 15 31 CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNANCE 4. The Science of Private Law and the Nation-State 47 Christian Joerges 5. The Role of Institutional Principles in the Judicial Development of the European Union Legal Order 83 Bruno de Witte 6. European Media Law: A Perspective on the Challenge of Multimedia 101 Karl-Heinz Ladeur 7 Legal Pluralism as an Evolutionary Achievement of Community Law 125 Massimo La Torre PART III . PARTIAL CONVERGENCE OF NATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEMS 8. The Protection of Public Interests and Regulation of Economic Activities Giuliano Amato and Laraine Laudati 9. The Convergence of the Administrative Laws of the EU Member States Jürgen Schwarze 141 163 vi Contents 10. Some Basic Elements of Legal Phenomenology Patrick Nerhot 11. Trade Union Rights in EU Law Brian Bercusson PART IV . 195 UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES 12. Why Should Europe Be a Democracy: The Corruption of Political Culture and the Principle of Toleration J.H.H. Weiler 13. Simplification of European Law Roland Bieber and Celsa Amarelle 14. Legal Irritants: Good Faith in British Law or How Unifying Law Ends Up in New Divergences Gunther Teubner 15. Global or R