The EU has long faced difficulties in ensuring compliance with its legal provisions, and as a result has developed sophisticated enforcement techniques that penetrate deep into the law and politics of member states. This book gathers leading experts to assess the legal procedures and political mechanisms at work in the EU to promote compliance.

• Introduction


• 1: Lisa Conant: Compliance and What EU Member States Make of It


• 2: Edoardo Chiti: The Governance of Compliance


• 3: Sibylle Grohs: Article 258/260 TFEU Infringement Procedures: The Commission Perspective in Environmental Cases


• 4: Michael Dougan: From the Velvet Glove to the Iron Fist: Criminal Sanctions for the Enforcement of Union Law


• 5: Darinka Piqani: The Role of National Constitutional Courts in Issues of Compliance


• 6: André Nollkaemper: The Role of National Courts in Inducing Compliance with International and European Law - A Comparison

Marise Cremona is Professor of European Law at the European University Institute, Florence.