Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea -- TJUE - Sentencia del Tribunal de Justicia de 15.1.2014 (Gran Sala) - Association de médiation sociale, asunto C-176/12, "Política social - Directiva 2002/14/CE - Carta de los Derechos Fundamentales de la Unión Europea - Artículo 27 - Sujeción de la constitución de órganos representativos del personal a ciertos umbrales de trabajadores empleados - Cálculo del número de trabajadores empleados - Normativa nacional contraria al derecho de la Unión - Función del juez nacional". Eficacia directa versus primacía
ISSN: 1138-4026
Year of publication: 2014
Year: 18
Issue: 49
Pages: 1029-1045
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo
Abstract
The Court of Justice, in this judgment, before the breach by a Member State of a directive, reiterates once again its refusal to recognize the horizontal direct effect of directives, but clarifies the notion that the provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, if they meet the necessary requirements to do so, can produce direct effect in horizontal relations. The Court does not take a position on the exception to the principle of the primacy, that means the implementation by the national judge of the national law contrary to a directive breached or poorly implemented by the Member State in the case of relations between individuals, and refers to the individual affected by the breach of the directive, to plead once more to claim liability to the State which breaches EU Law.