The Implementation and Enforcement of European Union Law in Small Member States: A Case Study of Malta

The objective of this book is to examine how the legal order of Malta, the EU's smallest Member State, manages to cope with the obligations of the EU's acquis commu­nautaire. As far as the legal obligations are concerned, size does not matter. Smaller Member States have the same obligations as the largest, yet they have to meet these same obligations with very fewer resources. This book examines how the Maltese legal system manages to fulfil its obligations both in terms of the supremacy of EU law, as well as how the substantive EU law is transposed and implemented. It also explores how Maltese courts look at EU law and how they manage, or not manage, to enforce it within the context of national law. It can serve as a model to demonstrate how EU law is being implemented in the small­est Member State and can serve as a basis to study the effectiveness of EU law into the domestic law of its Member States in general.

Ivan Sammut is Head of Department of European and Comparative Law, and Deputy Dean within the Faculty of Laws at the University of Malta, Malta. He has read PhD at the IALS University of London and LL.M. from the College of Europe, Belgium. He is also a graduate of the Universities of Malta and Birmingham. He is a quali­fied lawyer, and his academic interests lie broadly in the areas of EU law, private law and the law of the Internal Market.

Jelena Agranovska is Lecturer in European and Comparative Law within the Faculty of Laws, University of Malta, Malta. Before joining the University of Malta in 2016 she had read the degrees of PhD at King's College London, UK, and LL.M in European and International Law at London Metropolitan University, UK, and LL.B at the Moscow State University, Russia. Jelena's academic interests lie broadly in the areas of EU law, corporate law and the law of the Internal Market.