Enhancing Fundamental Rights Protection - Proposals for Ex Ante Review of EU Legislation (PEARL)

Abstract

The EU should ensure fundamental rights’ compatibility of EU legislation before its adoption. To that effect, we propose three distinct paths to improve the EU control mechanisms. Whilst mechanisms to ensure quality control do exist, primarily in the form of impact assessments, these mostly remain a merely formal exercise. Henceforth, we suggest strengthening the ex ante fundamental rights review of EU legislation through enhanced involvement of FRA in the legislative process.

Keywords

• CJEU
• Charta der Grundrechte | Europäische Union
• Constitutional Law
• ECJ
• EU
• EU