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Nález Ústavního soudu k Lisabonské smlouvě z pohledu ústavního práva

Title in English The Judgement of the Czech Constitutional Court to the Lisbon Treaty in terms of constitutional law
Authors

FILIP Jan

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Časopis pro právní praxi
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Law

Citation
Field Law sciences
Keywords Lisbon treaty; extend of preventive review; problems of proper formulation of proposal; problems of extend and formulation of the judgement of the Constitutional Court
Description The article analyses the judgement of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic concerning a review of constitutionality of the Treaty of Lisbon. Since it is the first case of application of the respective provisions of the Constitutional Court Act the main attention is paid to the procedural issues of this kind of proceeding such as formulation of the proposal of the Senate, the nature of the proceeding, extend of the review (the review only on those provisions of the Lisbon Treaty whose consistency with the constitutional order the petitioner expressly contested hence if it assessed the constitutionality of the entire treaty, it could constitute a barrier rei iudicatae for other potential petitioners. The author analyses the styling of the judgement and its structuring. The attention is always paid to the key notion of material (substantial) core of the constitutional order and to a Euroconforming interpretation of the constitutional provisions.
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