Europeisation of the medical law - the influence of the Council of Europe and the EU on harmonisation of the national law
2011
Abstract
The role of European institutions in coordinating, harmonising or even unifying the national laws as the issue of biomedicine and public health is concerned is difficult - on one hand there are the legal binding measures permitted under specific provisions of EU Treaties to define the minimum standard, on the other hand the subsidiarity of Union's action in the area of public health and the doctrine of complementary competence introduced by Art. 168 TFEU occur to be rather dominant.