Cooperation Between Institutions of the European Union and Its Member States in the Creation of Climate Protection Policy
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2019
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Wydawnictwo KUL
Abstract
The climate policy is a complex area of cooperation between Member States
and the European Union institutions. The ambitious goals that the EU sets for
itself in this matter are not always possible to be met by all Member States, hence
the ability to work out compromise solutions is of great importance. Member
States have various internal conditions, which determine the objectives of their
economic and energy policies, therefore they do not always have convergent interests
in this area.
The decision-making centre where the EU climate protection policy is created
is: the European Council, where key elements of this policy are agreed (such as
reduction targets), and the so called an ‘institutional triangle’, i.e. the EU Council,
European Parliament and European Commission which are directly involved
in the legislative process. This configuration is a platform where cooperation
of the Member States manifests itself in various forms and intensity and where
those countries may attempt to force their interests in the process of creating the
EU policy.
The article presents the legal bases of the European Union’s competences
in the field of the climate policy and the role of the EU institutions in its creation
with particular focus on mechanisms that allow Member States to influence the
shape of that policy.
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Climate protection policy, conclusions of the European Council, conferred competences, the European emission allowance trading system (EU-ETS), institutional triangle, pre-emption effect, shared competences
Citation
"Review of European and Comparative Law" 2019, T. 38, nr 3, s. 33-60