Judgment by the Danish Supreme Court on accession to the Treaty on European Union (12 August 1996)
Text On 12 August 1996, the Danish Supreme Court rules that ordinary citizens have a legal interest in having the constitutionality of Denmark’s Act of Accession to the European Union tried on the merits. The Treaty on European Union implies a transfer to the EU of various legislative powers affecting a number of general aspects of daily life, meaning that accession to the treaty is sufficiently important to the Danish people to establish locus standi.
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Source: Højesteret dom af 12. august 1996, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen, U.1996.1300H, http://www.codices.coe.int/NXT/gateway.dll/CODICES/full/eur/den/den/den-1996-2-002#JD_Full_DEN_DEN-1996-2-002.
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