General Principles of EU Law: Systemic Implications of "Twin" TFEU Article 11 and EUCFR Article 37

Title
General Principles of EU Law: Systemic Implications of "Twin" TFEU Article 11 and EUCFR Article 37
Publication Date
2023
Author(s)
Quirico, Ottavio
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8268-7501
Email: oquirico@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:oquirico
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Publicacions URV
Place of publication
Spain
DOI
10.17345/rcda3546
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/55363
Abstract
Under the basic tenet of sustainable development, TFEU Article 11 compels the integration of environmental protection into the regulatory action of the European Union (EU). Such a provision is paralleled in the human rights framework by ‘twin’ EUCFR Article 37. What are the implications of this dual system? The analysis assesses the systemic implications of the inclusion of TFEU Article 11 and EUCFR Article 37 as core twin provisions in different sources of EU law, particularly in light of the foreseeable accession of the EU to the ECHR envisaged in TEU Article 6(2). Arguably, TFEU Article 11 and EUCFR Article 37 create an imbalance between the EU and ECHR legal systems and might foster the full establishment of environmental protection as a fundamental right in both EU law and the ECHR.
Link
Citation
Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental, 14(1), p. 1-31
ISSN
2014-038X
Start page
1
End page
31
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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