BALV3400 European Union and EEA Law Course description

This course presents and discusses the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) from a legal perspective. The focus is on the institutions, the decision-making processes, the sources of law of the European Union, their effects in the national systems, etc. The aim is to provide knowledge on the EU/EEA dimension, shedding light on Norway's relationship with the European Union.

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Knowledge

The student will have knowledge of:

• The development of the EU and the EEA, and their main principles and aims
• Fundamental topics of EU/EEA law such as sources of law, decision making-processes, institutions, etc.
• Topical issues such as the effects of EU law in the national legal systems and Norway's relationship with the European Union

Skills

The student will be able to:

• Understand the scope of the European integration process
• Illustrate how the decision-making processes within the EU/EEA dimension work
• Identify and utilize legal sources of EU/EEA law
• Solve basic issues of EU/EEA law independently
• Discuss critically the connection between the EU and the Norwegian legal systems

General competence

The student will be able to:

• Reflect and write on topics such as legal sources, institutions, etc., and on the relationship between national and supranational legal systems
• Use English legal terminology connected to the topics studied

The course is based on lectures, group work, homework assignments, and literature.

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A written digital examination of four hours. The students must write their exam in English.

• Dictionary (English-Norwegian, English-foreign language)
• Legal documents: TEU, TFEU, the EEA Agreement, directives, regulations, decisions of the Courts, etc.

It is possible to bring to the exam also specific parts of the above-mentioned documents.

Books and slides are not allowed. 

A grade scale with five grades from A to E for pass and F for fail is used as the assessment form.

All the exam papers will be assessed by an internal examiner. A selection of at least 25% of the exam papers will be assessed by an external examiner. An external examiner will also be used when there is doubt about whether an exam paper should be awarded a pass grade. The grades awarded to exam papers assessed by the external examiner will be used to determine the level of all exam papers.

Diego Praino