23
Oktober
2018
Italian and Romanian version now available
03 April 2020

Anwendung der Charta der Grundrechte der Europäischen Union im Rahmen der nationalen Gesetzgebung und Politikgestaltung

As a very modern human rights catalogue containing many rights not found in established bills of rights, the Charter indeed looks good on paper. Those familiar with the
main principles of EU law can usually quickly recite that the Charter is always binding
on the EU, and binding on Member States only when they are “implementing EU law”.
But what does this often-quoted language from Article 51 of the Charter actually mean?