EU Soft Law in the Member States: Theoretical Findings and Empirical Evidence

Acknowledgements\nContents\nList of Contributors\n1. Introduction\nPART I: \rNORMATIVE ASSUMPTIONS\n	2. Revisiting Soft Law: Governance, Regulation and Networks\n		1. Introduction\n		II. Governance\n		III. Soft Law and the EU Turn to New Governance\n		IV. The Over-Ambitious Turn to New Governance\n		V. Competition Law: The Interplay of Hard Law, Soft Law and Network\n		VI. Conclusion\n	3. Types of EU Soft Law and Their National Impact\n		I. Introduction\n		II. What is EU Soft Law?\n		III. Types of EU Soft Law\n		IV. EU Soft Law in SoLaR Research\n		V. The National Use of EU Soft Law\n		VI. Conclusion\n	4. ‘Whatever-Law ’ and Teenage Member States ? : The National\rReception of EU Soft Law and How to Study It\n		1. Introduction\n		II. National Reception of Soft Law: A Search for a Framework\n		III. How Should the Reception of Soft Law be Studied? Methodological Aspects\n		IV. Empirical Insights on Methodology\n		V. Conclusion\n	5. ‘Verba Volant, Quoque (Soft Law) Scripta ? ’: An Analysis of the\rLegal Effects of National Soft Law Implementing EU Soft Law\rin France and the UK\n		I. Introduction\n		II. Methodology\n		III. EU Competition Soft Law\n		IV. EU Environmental Soft Law\n		V. An Analysis\n		VI. Concluding Remarks\nPART II: \rCOUNTRY ANALYSES\n	6. EU Soft Law in Cyprus: In Search of Role and Value\n		I. Introduction\n		II. Cyrus: A Hybrid Legal System\n		III. Cyproit \'Soft Law\' Instruments: The Case of \'Circulars\'\n		IV. EU Soft Law in Competition Law and Financial Regulation in Cyprus\n		V. Concluding Remarks\n	7. The Finnish Soft Law Puzzle: How Can a Rule-Bound Parliamentary Democracy Be Reconciled with EU Soft Law?\n		I. Introduction\n		II. EU Soft Law and the Finnish Legal System\n		III. Soft Law in Action? Judicial and Administrative Practices in Finland\n		IV. The Finnish Soft Law Puzzle\n		V. Conclusion\n	8. No Longer Small Enough to Fall through the Cracks: A French Story\rof Adaptation to the Petites Sources of EU Law\n		I. Introduction\n		II. The Receptionof EU Soft Law in France: A Story of Fragmentation and Openness\n		III. The Application of EU Soft Law by French Courts\n		IV. Evaluation: Is There any Role for the General Principles of Law?\n		V. Conclusion\n	9. Soft Law in Germany: Still Opposing Dynamics in Status and Effect\n		1. Introduction\n		II. Status and Effects of Soft Law in Germany\n		III. Between Sceptical Judges and Pragmatic Bureaucrats: The Policy Field-Specific Use of Soft Law Instruments\n		IV. Conclsion: Caught Between Weak Legal and Strong Practical Relevance\n	10. The Approach of Hungarian Authorities to Soft Law: On the\rRoad to Where?\n		I. Introduction\n		II. Factors Influencing the Perception and Awareness of Soft Law in Hungary\n		III. Organisation of the Research and General Findings\n		IV. Sectoral Analysis of Soft Law Application in Hungary\n		V. Conclusion\n	11. Judges, Public Authorities and EU Soft Law in Italy: How You\rCannot Tell a Book by its Cover\n		I. Introduction\n		II. The Status and Effects of Domestic and European Soft Law in Italy\n		III. EU Soft Law in the Hands of the Italian Courts\n		IV. The Impact of EU Soft Law on the Principles of Transparency and Democratic Legitimacy: The Italian Authorities\' Perspective\n		V. Conclusion\n	12. Soft Law and Guidance in the Netherlands: At Odds with\rLegal Principles?\n		1. Introduction\n		II. Soft Law in the Dutch Legal System\n		III. Solar Results: Case Law and Interviews\n		IV. The Effects of EU Soft Law on Legal Principles\n		V. Conclusion\n	13. The Uneasy Reception of EU Soft Law in the Slovenian\rLegal Order\n		I. Introduction\n		II. The Slovenian Legal Order in Context\n		III. Legislative Reception of EU Soft Law\n		IV. The Judicial Reception of EU Soft Law\n		V. Administrative Reception of EU Soft Law\n		VI. Conclusion\n	14. In Search of Symmetry Lost: European and Spanish Soft Law\rbefore the Spanish Authorities\n		I. Introduction\n		II. Methodology\n		III. The Legal Nature of Soft Law Under Spanish Law\n		IV. Judicial Review\n		V. Interpretative Effects\n		VI. Indirect Invalidating Effects\n		VII. Soft Law and Constutional Principles\n		VIII. Conclusions\n	15. EU Soft Law in the UK on the Eve of Brexit: (Not) Much Ado\rabout Nothin\n		I. Introduction\n		II. The Significance of the UK Legal System\'s Nature\n		III. Findings Regarding the Impact of EU Soft Law on Specific Fields\n		IV. Conclusion\n	16. Three Worlds of Chinese Soft Law\n		I. Introduction\n		II. Rule-Making and Soft Law\n		III. From Soft Law to Social Governance to Social Management\n		IV. Soft Law in Legal Scholarship\n		V. Soft Law in Chinese Courts\n		VI. Conclusion\nPART III: \rEVALUATION\n	17. Judicial Review of Soft Law before the European and the National\rCourts: A Wind of Change Blowing from the Member States?\n		I. Introduction\n		II. Soft Law Before the European Courts\n		III. The Judicial Control of Soft Law Before the National Courts: Variations on a Theme\n		IV. Conclusions\n	18. Legal Effects and Reviewability of EU Acts: Between Institutional\rIntentions and Perceptions of Concerned Parties\n		I. Introduction\n		II. Reviewable Acts In EU Law\n		III. Intention of the Author: A Subjective or Objective Test?\n		IV. Perception of Concorned Parties\n		V. Intentions and Perceptions in Times of Conflict\n		VI. Conclusion\n	19. Soft Law and the Promise of Transparency in the\rMember States\n		I. Introduction\n		II. Transparency in a Soft Law Context\n		III. Access to Soft Law\n		IV. The Relational Aspect of Transparency\n		V. Conclusions\n	20. The National Politics of EU Soft Law: Sweden and the Balancing\rAct between Output and Input Legitimacy\n		1. Introduction\n		II. Soft Law and Legitimacy\n		III. The Swedish Politics of Soft Law\n		IV. Conclusion\n	21. Final Thoughts\nIndex