Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rcrh6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-27T20:45:00.396Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

EU Law qua Global Governance Law? Deciphering Regulatory and Constitutional Competence Between EU Environmental Law and Global Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Elaine Fahey  and
Ester Herlin-Karnell

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

This special issue looks at the normative implications of EU global regulatory efforts in the area of environmental policy. The EU Environmental Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) represents an example of successful application of EU environmental standards where global standards harmonization had failed. The intersection between EU law and global law, however, seems increasingly porous and difficult to decipher. Post-Lisbon, the EU increasingly functions like a State in its actions with the world. Nonetheless, the operation of international law internally within the EU legal order has been the subject of many distinctive constitutional periods, both prior to and after the Treaty of Lisbon. In the recent judgment of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice on the EU-Emissions Trading System, the Court rejected claims that the application of the EU-ETS scheme to the aviation sector, specifically US airlines, was unlawful under EU and international law. In the realm of the environment, EU environmental protection is both a value and normative aspiration. Yet what is a successful legal outcome of the adoption of ambitious and aggressive global legal regulatory frameworks in this domain? How should contemporary EU global policy and value ambitions be adjudicated in law? The case raises broader issues about the legitimacy of EU law and externalities arising from extended EU competences to positively promote EU constitutional values beyond Europe. While using this case as its starting point, this special issue sets out to look at the wider constitutional questions asked by it.

Type
Special Issue: EU Law qua Global Governance Law
Information
German Law Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 11: Special Issue - Deciphering Regulatory and Constitutional Competence Between EU Environmental Law and Global Governance , 01 November 2012 , pp. 1147 - 1150
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 by German Law Journal GbR 

References

1 Directive 2008/101, of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 amending Directive 2003/87/EC so as to include aviation activities in the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community, 2009 O.J. (L 8/3). See also Analysis of Options to Move Beyond 20% Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions and Assessing the Risk of Carbon Leakage, COM (2010) 265 final (May 26, 2010); International Climate Policy Post-Copenhagen: Acting Now to Reinvigorate Global Action on Climate Change, COM (2010) 86 final (Mar. 9, 2010).Google Scholar

2 See Piet Eeckhout, EU External Relations Law 338 (2d ed. 2011); see also Daniel Thym, Foreign Affairs, in Principles of European Constitutional Law 309 (Armin Von Bogdandy & Jürgen Bast eds., 2d ed. 2009).Google Scholar

3 Case C-366/10, Air Transp. Ass'n of America v. Sec'y of State for Energy and Climate Change, 2011 E.C.R. I-000.Google Scholar

4 See Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union art. 3, 13 Dec. 2007, 2010 O.J. (C083).Google Scholar

5 See Witte, Bruno De, Too Much Constitutional Law in the European Union's Foreign Relations?, in EU Foreign Relations Law: Constitutional Fundamentals 1, 11 (Bruno De Witte & Marise Cremona eds., 2008).Google Scholar

6 See Cremona, Marise, Values in EU Foreign Policy, in Beyond the Established Legal Orders: Policy Interconnections Between the EU and the Rest of the World 275 (Malcolm Evans & Panos Koutrakos eds., 2011).Google Scholar

7 Weiler, Joseph H.H., Prologue: Global and Pluralist Constitutionalism—Some Doubts, in Worlds of European Constitutionalism 8 (Gráinne de Búrca & Joseph H.H. Weiler eds., 2011); Gareth Davies, Constitutional Disagreement in Europe and the Search for Pluralism, in Constitutional Pluralism in the European Union and Beyond 269 (Matej Avbelj & Jan Komarek eds., 2012).Google Scholar

8 Halberstam, Daniel, Constitutional Heterarchy: The Centrality of Conflict in the European Union and the United States, in Ruling The World? Constitutionalism, International Law and Global Governance 326 (Jeffrey L. Dunoff & Joel P. Trachtman eds., 2009).Google Scholar

9 Weiler, supra note 7.Google Scholar