National Courts and the Application of EU Law : Lessons from Poland

The monograph titled National Courts and the Application of EU Law : Lessons from Poland by Prof. Monika Szwarc, Prof. Dawid Miąsik, i Prof. Monika Domańska is the result of the implementation of the publishing project Excellence in Legal Research. Promoting Polish achievements in the area of legal sciences abroad (DIALOG, 2019-2023).

Book presents the case law of Polish courts, namely the Supreme Court, administrative courts and the Constitutional Tribunal, in which the principles of EU law have been successfully applied. It discusses how Polish courts apply principles of consistent interpretation, primacy and direct effect of EU law in their daily adjudicating practice in order to ensure effet utile of EU law, resulting in effective protection of individuals’ rights derived from the EU legal order. The book explores the legal nature of these principles and, in particular, the requirement that national rules that are found to be incompatible with legally binding and enforceable EU law should be disapplied by the domestic courts. It explains Polish courts’ reasoning concerning the inseparable relationship between the principle of primacy of EU law and the remedy of disapplication of national law.

As the guidelines provided for the national courts by the Court of Justice of the European Union are often quite vague, the work will be important and useful for academics and practitioners from different European jurisdictions to observe the manner in which these principles of EU law are applied in jurisdictions other than their own.


Publisher: Routledge
Autors: Monika Domańska, Dawid Miąsik, Monika Szwarc
Year: 2024
ISBN: 9781003376019
DOI: 10.4324/9781003376019
Pages: 318
The publication is available in the Library of ILS PAS: