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Deuxième séance de travail — Les retombées
Second working session — The impact
PANEL DE discussion
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DISCUSSANTS
Van Gend en Loos
from the
perspective of new Member
States
Maciej Szpunar
PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA, KATOWICE
Thank you very much for the invitation. It is a great honour to partici-
pate in this important event and to listen to all distinguished speakers.
I will try to look at the consequences of the judgment in the case of
Van
Gend en Loos
from the perspective of a lawyer from a country that inherited
the entire doctrine of direct effect and supremacy. At the time we joined the
Union, the basic principles of the application of Community Law had been
already established. One must remember of course that even though these
principles stem in the first place from the judgement in the case of
Van Gend
en Loos
, they were fully shaped in the subsequent case-law of the Court.
In my brief intervention I would like to underline three aspects:
—— uniform application of the EU law
—— terminology
—— shadows of the judgment in the case of
Van Gend en Loos
(as suggested
in the paper of Professor Weiler)
