60 years of Van Gend & Loos: Direct effect of EU law and a ‘new legal order’

The 5 February 1963 judgment of the Court of Justice in Case 26/62 N.V. Algemente Transport- en Expeditie Onderneming van Gend & Loos v Nederlandse administratie der belastingen (in short ‘Van Gend & Loos’) is one of the milestones of the Court’s jurisprudence and a fundamental building block of EU constitutional law, ‘universally celebrated as perhaps the most important case of the Court’, alongside the Costa v ENEL ruling of 15 July1964.

February 7, 2023
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