LEARNING OUTCOMES

The module aims at providing to students the essential research and analysis tools in the field of EU (and international) transport law by studying, on the one hand, the specificities of the Union, its sources of law and relationships with domestic law, and, on the other, the relevant legal framework and policy in transport matters (maritime, air, road, and rail transport), highlighting common and divergent marks between the different fields, and their impact on safety, access - and management - of infrastructures, and access to the market.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students are invited to subscribe to the Aulaweb page, to access materials and newsletter

TEACHING METHODS

Traditional frontal lectures, with presentations of both decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union and ppt presentations by Students. 

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

A) EU law

- International law and transports.

- EU and transport: competences and conditions for their excerise.

- EU and transport: sources of law.

- The decision-making process.

- Judicial protection in the EU.

- EU and persons: free movement of people, workers, freedom of establishment, services, recognition of professional qualifications. 

B) Transport

- The shared compentence of the EU in transport matters

- The principle of subsidiarity

- Primary EU law

     i. Transport

     i. Infrastructure networks

- EU transport policy

- Transport and Liberalisation

i) The principle of separation of operators of the infrastructure from providing services to customers

ii) The principle of separation in:

    a. Ports, and maritime transport

    b. Airoports, and air transport

    c. Railway, and rail transport

    d. Road, and road transport

iii) State aid

    a. prohibition of State aid

   b. State aid as a tool to revitalise transports

- The protection of the transport customer

- Transport and EU environmental policy: sustainable mobility

- Rules concerning the liability of the carrier:

   i. international uniform rules

   ii. problems of private international law (overview)

- Techincal harmonisation

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

for the first part: Klaus-Dieter Borchardt, The ABC of European Union Law, Luxembourg, 2010 [available online]

for the second part: Margherita Colangelo, Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich, Introduction to European Union Transport Law, Rome, 2015 [available online]