The partial or total invalidity of the European Union acts

Abstract

The Court of Justice of the European Union acts as a constitutional jurisdiction reviewing European legislative acts. However, the competence of the Courtto declare the partial or total invalidity of such acts has not been defined in the Treaties, unlike it happens in the legal systems of the Member States relating to their constitutional courts, and that competence has been unsatisfactorily defined in the Court of Justice jurisprudence on that subject. Therefore,in this article it is proposed a reformulation of that jurisprudence, defining specific criteria for partial annulment of legislative acts, taking into account the intention of the legislature to establish the severability or non-severability of the acts, and excluding the understanding of the inseverability of a legislative act provision as a dismissing action’s cause.