direct effect
Unmediated causal result
Direct effect is a principle in European Union law holding that certain EU provisions create rights individuals can enforce in national courts, without needing implementation by member states.
A treaty article or directive with direct effect gives citizens standing to sue based on EU law itself: The regulation has direct effect throughout the Union.
The doctrine establishes EU law's immediate legal force within member countries.
- causationProduction of effects
- consequenceResult of an action
- unmediatedWithout intervening agency
- directiveFormal command or instruction
- immediacyQuality of being direct
reaction · supremacy · impact · proximate · enforcement · compliance · outcome · policy · case law · Treaty of Rome · firsthand · treaty · jurisdiction · behavior · regulation · correlation · precedent · trigger
- international lawinternational law, treaty, treaties, conventions, protocols
- EU lawTreaty of Rome, acquis communautaire, directives, transposition, infringement
- causalitycausation, causality, causal chain, cause, antecedent
- EU ParliamentEuropean Parliament, MEPs, MEP, plenary, committees
- ultrasonicstransducer, ultrasonic cleaning, fish finder, sonogram, echosounder
direct effectsecondary effect
Consequence beyond primary impact
knock-on effect · ripple effect · downstream effect · chain reaction · domino effect
direct effectunintended consequence
Unexpected outcome of action
side effect · unintended outcome · byproduct · collateral damage · spillover effect