EU law is created by the institutions of the European Union (Commission, Council of Ministers, European Parliament and European Court of Justice) and builds on the body of European Community law that flowed from the founding legal and institutional rules in the 1957 Treaty of Rome.
The UK Parliament passed the European Communities Act 1972 to join the organisation that we now know as the European Union, and it became a member state in January 1973. The 1972 Act accepted the primacy of European Union law and provided that such law could be directly applicable in the UK where clear and precise.
Your organisation does not have access to this article.
Sign up today to give your students the edge they need to achieve their best grades with subject expertise
Subscribe
