EU obligation definition
Examples of EU obligation in a sentence
B4.17 It will be the responsibility of the lead Whitehall Department formally to notify the devolved administrations at official level of any new EU obligation which concerns devolved matters and which it will be the responsibility of the devolved administrations to implement in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland (although the arrangements for policy formulation and negotiation described above should ensure that the devolved administrations are already aware of new obligations).
B4.16 It will be the responsibility of the lead Whitehall Department formally to notify the devolved administrations at official level of any new EU obligation which concerns devolved matters and which it will be the responsibility of the devolved administrations to implement in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland (although the arrangements for policy formulation and negotiation described above should ensure that the devolved administrations are already aware of new obligations).
This study was undertaken to establish if countries, whilst implementing EU policy but in the absence of an EU obligation for particular policy instruments, show path-dependent behaviour in their choice of policy instruments.
Based on the outcomes of this study, we, therefore, need to rephrase our initial hypothesis as follows: In the absence of an EU obligation for a particular policy instrument, Member States do not necessarily prefer to follow the available instrumental paths, but they prefer to follow the existing implementation style.
Currently there is a lake of proper motivation – beyond the EU obligation – for the spread of e-Mobility, the infrastructure is poor, the common control and payment system is missing, and business models are underdeveloped.