EP Legal Affairs Committee

The new Committee VI on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market is responsible for matters relating to the following:

• Legal aspects of the creation, interpretation and application of Community law, including the choice of legal basis for Community acts and compliance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality.
• Legal aspects of the creation, interpretation and application of international law, in so far as it affects the European Union.
• All matters relating to the simplification of Community law, in particular legislative proposals for its official codification.
• Coordination at Community level of national legislation in the sphere of the internal market, in particular:
  1. the establishment and operation of the internal market (Arts. 14 & 15 EC);
  2. the right of establishment and the freedom to provide services (Arts. 43-55 EC), except for financial services;
  3. the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market [which of course has nothing to do with harmonisation in the internal market and is in reality the Community Trade Marks Office in Alicante].
• Intellectual property law.
• Civil liability law, contract law and procedural law, irrespective of the sector concerned.
• Consumers’ legal protection.
• Ethical questions related to new technologies.