Die Verbundaufsicht

The European Community depends on the national authorities for the proper enforcement of Community law. The treaty violation proceeding, which the Commission basically has at its disposal in order to ensure that the Member States conduct themselves according to Community law, is however very time-consuming. For this reason, Meike Eekhoff studies the extra-judicial supervisory proceedings and mechanisms which are available to the European Community. She deals with the structures of the supervision of the Member State administrations and exposes inconsistencies. She also studies the legality of the codification of supervisory mechanisms in secondary law as well as the legality of the application of these mechanisms in individual cases by the European Community. Finally, the author shows the opportunities of legal protection for the Member States and their citizens against the mentioned measures of supervision.