European Public Administration

Recommended Prerequisites

Notions of Private and Public Law I History of the Public Administration, Administrative Law I.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and practical classes.

Learning Outcomes

The objective is for the students to understand the essential elements of the european integration process, including, without limitation, the fondamental principles and rules of EU Law, with a special enfasis with the executive and administrative functions developed by the EU institutions, organs and organisms, and the member States, including the guarantees to the individuals.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I. Introduction to the EU

1. The legal nature of the EU

2. EU competences

3. Main characteristics of EU law

II. Institutional Architecture of the EU

1. The institutions, particularly the legislative and executive (European Commission, EP and Council)

2. European Commission

3. Organs and organisms: in particular, committees and agencies.

4. The role of the Council and of the Member States

III. Forms of European Administration between EU and member States

- Direct

- Indirect

- Descentralized

- Co-administration and network adm.

IV. EU and member States

 1. The influence of EU law in the member States

 2. Portuguese adminstration and administrative law vis a vis EU Law

V. Legal principal of EU administrative law

VII. Administrative and judicial control vis-a-vis EU lawa.

Head Lecturer(s)

Miguel Maria Tavares Festas Gorjão-Henriques da Cunha

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 50.0%
Mini Tests: 50.0%

Bibliography

Miguel Gorjão-Henriques, Direito da União, 9a de., Almedina, Coimbra, 2019

 Jónatas Machado, Direito da União Europeia, 3a ed., Coimbra editora, 2018

Dulce M. J. Lopes, Eficácia, Reconhecimento e Execução de Actos Administrativos Estrangeiros, diss. Doutoramento, Almedina, 2018

Miguel Gorjão-Henriques, Atribuição e harmonização na União Europeia : o caso dos medicamentos, diss. Doutoramento, Almedina, 2018

Alexandra Aragão, “A governância na Constituição Europeia: uma oportunidade perdida?”, in Colóquio Ibérico – Constituição Europeia. Homenagem ao Doutor Francisco Lucas Pires, Coimbra Editora, 2005;

Suzana Tavares da Silva, Direito administrativo europeu, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, 2010;

João Nuno Calvão da Silva, Agências europeias de regulação, Gestlegal, 3a ed., 2019.