National Courts and the Enforcement of EU Law: Report on Croatia for the FIDE XXIX Congress, The Hague, 2020 – Topic 1
N. Bacic Selance, T. Capeta, I. Goldner Lang and D. Petric, National Courts and the Enforcement of EU Law: Report on Croatia for the FIDE XXIX Congress, The Hague, 2020 – Topic 1, 2020 Forthcoming
16 Pages Posted: 21 May 2020 Last revised: 4 Apr 2023
Date Written: May 9, 2020
Abstract
This report demonstrates how the application of EU law in line with the acquis has been increasingly accepted by the Croatian judiciary. In principle, the Croatian Constitutional Court proclaimed the supremacy of the Constitution over EU law. However, in practice, the Croatian judiciary has been recognising the supremacy of EU law over national law and its obligation to apply it (directly or indirectly) to legal situations falling within the scope of EU law that have arisen after Croatia’s accession to the EU.
Keywords: EU law, national courts, Court of Justice of the European Union, direct effect, supremacy, Croatia, Constitutional Court
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