Examples of EU obligation in a sentence
This designation allows Welsh Ministers to make Regulations for the purpose of implementing any EU obligation in exercise of the powers contained in section 2(2).
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).
Although the EU obligation only extends to the grounds of racial or ethnic origin and sex, the remit of the national equality body in most Member States also covers religion or belief, disability, age and sexual orientation and in many cases nationality, language or political opinion too.The forms of assistance which the national equality bodies are required to provide to victims of discrimination are not specified in EU law and vary across Member States.
But the courts might prefer to take a narrower view, i.e. that it covers only domestic legislation which is “necessary” for the purpose of implementing an EU obligation.
However, there may not be clear answer to the question whether a specific provision of legislation is “operating” for the purpose of implementing an EU obligation.
It will also, perhaps surprisingly, change the relationship between UK and devolved legislation; a devolved statute passed for the purpose of implementing an EU obligation would prevail over a later (but pre-Brexit) UK statute with which it was inconsistent.A similar issue arises with the third category of EU-derived domestic legislation – referred to above as a miscellaneous category of legislation relating to the EU/EEA.
This means that the ICSID obligation pursuant to which such an intra-EU award should be enforced could not trump the primacy of this EU obligation within the EU legal order.
In practice, this means that the supremacy principle will arguably apply to all domestic rules of law (and not just to legislation) which deal with the same subject matter as any pre-Brexit EU rule imposing an obligation whether or not the rule was made with the intention of implementing an EU obligation.
Estimates, returns and information that may under section 9 of the Statistics of Trade Act 1947 or section 3 of the Agricultural Statistics Act 1979 be disclosed to a government department, the Scottish Ministers or Minister in charge of a government department may, in like manner, be disclosed in pursuance of an EU obligation to an EU institution.
If there were either of these things, then the legislation would be “passed or made” for purpose of implementing an EU obligation.