Primacy
- Costa v ENEL 6/64 ECR 585
Community law takes precedence over the Member States own domestic law.
- Simmenthal II 106/77 ECR 629
Duty to set aside provisions of national law which are incompatible with Community law.
- Marleasing C-106/89 ECR I-7321
National law must be interpreted and applied, insofar as possible, so as to avoid a conflict with a Community rule.
- Factortame I C-213/89 ECR I-2433
Duty on national courts to secure the full effectiveness of Community law, even where it is necessary to create a national remedy where none had previously existed.
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