The nature of Directives
Directives have no equivalent within the English legal system. Directives are instructions from the EU to the member states requiring them to achieve certain legal results within their national legal systems, but leaving it for each member state to decide how this should be done. Each Directive will specify a date by which member states must comply with its terms.
It is clear from the nature of Directives that they are not a source of law in the same way that the Treaties and Regulations are sources of law, because they depend on member states for their implementation. Nevertheless, there is plainly a sense in which they are sources – even if only conditional sources – of law, because they bind member states to produce specific legal consequences.
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