Van Gend en Loos
An EU Court case stating that treaty articles can be binding without the need for adopting a specific law. This new principle invented by the Court is called „direct effect”.
The Van Gend & Loos judgment is one of the most important judgments in the development of the Community legal order.
The European Court of Justice specifies that the Community constitutes a new legal order of international law where the member states have limited their sovereign rights. Its subjects do not only comprise the member states as in normal international organisations; the Community can bind individuals and companies as well directly.
Links
See direct effect
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUr......o?uri=CELEX:61962J0026:EN:HTML
