LEGAL PERSONALITY AND POWERS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
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Authors:
• Augustin FUEREA, email: augustinfuerea@yahoo.com, Afiliation: Faculty of Law, “Nicolae Titulescu” University, Bucharest -
Abstract:
Based on legal personality, EU won through Treaty of Lisbon, in accordance with the system of division of competences between the Union and the Member States as provided for in the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, competences not conferred upon the Union in the Treaties remain with the Member States. When the Treaties confer on the Union a competence shared with the Member States in a specific area, the Member States shall exercise their competence to the extent that the Union has not exercised, or has decided to cease exercising, its competence. The representatives of the governments of the Member States may decide to amend the Treaties upon which the Union is founded, including either to increase or to reduce the competences conferred on the Union in the said Treaties