Globalisation & Law Network seminar with Filipe Brito Bastos

The book explores the notion of composite administrative procedures, whereby national and European public authorities make decisions jointly. Such procedures have become a key tenet of EU law and can nowadays be found in a wide range of sectors, from banking supervision to electronic communications. However, composite administrative procedures make it difficult to determine whether individual protections must be afforded at the national or EU-wide level. The book undertakes a rigorous analysis of the case law of the European Court of Justice to distil the main principles relating to composite decision-making. Such principles require national and Union administrations to observe the rule of law requirements jointly and constitute what the book calls the ‘Unitary Protection’ doctrine. This doctrine stands in contrast to the European Executive Federalism, which used to be considered a constitutional doctrine reaffirmed by the Treaties, and paves the way towards European postfederal administrative law.

The discussion that followed Filipe’s talk concerned the future of composite administrative procedures in light of the recent developments, including the Opinion of Advocate General Ćapeta in the pending case C-97/23 P WhatsApp Ireland v EDPB.

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