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European Union Protection System

2014

Traditionally, the EU law (characterised as acquis communautaire) is divided into the primary law and the secondary law. This distinction of the EU law is not based on a hierarchy of norms but, as it is justly admitted in the legal literature, on sources: if the EU primary law originates from the EU Member States as ‘Masters of the Treaty’, the EU secondary law—directly from EU institutions. In the case of IGOs (as well as other IP objects such as trade marks, designs, patents, and plant variety rights), their regulation is ensured both by the EU primary law and the EU secondary law which will be reviewed separately in Part II of the book.

European Union lawbusiness.industryInternational tradeNational data protection authorityPrimary authorityData Protection DirectiveGeneral Data Protection RegulationPolitical scienceEuropean integrationSingle Euro Payments Areamedia_common.cataloged_instanceEuropean unionbusinessmedia_common
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The Concept of Authority

1995

There is a general agreement that the concept of practical authority can be analysed as a right to impose obligations or commands on its subject and that this right is correlated with a duty to obey. Usually it is also implied that these rights and duties are mutually recognized. Thus authority is considered as a consensus-based notion. But it is important to notice that political authorities can have other functions, too. They can change the normative positions of their subjects by permitting, authorizing, delegating, exercising a veto, by declaring acts valid or invalid, etc. They can create and change definition rules, e.g. determine the values of units of payment. They are often authori…

Noticemedia_common.quotation_subjectVetoNormativeDelegated authorityBusinessPrimary authorityPolitical authoritiesTraditional authorityDutymedia_commonLaw and economics
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