Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo

Sommario

1. Introduzione: la dichiarazione relativa all’art. 10 del Trattato di Nizza. – 2. Tentativo di classificazione degli accordi interistituzionali sulla base di un criterio cronologico e gli accordi interistituzionali di «terza generazione». – 3. Sul problema della natura e della base giuridica degli accordi interistituzionali: il dibattito in dottrina. – 4. Segue: il percorso della giurisprudenza della Corte.

Abstract

This paper deals with the legal value of interinstitutional agreements. This area is receiving renewed attention from scholars, thanks to an explicit mention of these types of agreements in the Declaration adopted by the Intergovernmental Conference and annexed to the Treaty of Nice. Growing research by community institutions with more flexible forms of collaboration inter se, as per inter-institutional agreements, beyond the more classical institutional context and with no precise legal foundations in specific provisions of the Treaty, is witnessing the significance of the problem in relation to the legal validity of these agreements. This article gives some brief outlines for reflection on this matter, starting with an attempt to classify the different kinds of interinstitutional agreements. It also reports on the path that the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Communities has already followed in this field.