Practice question · True or false
A regulation is binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
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- Article 288 TFEU uses exactly these words for one of the instruments.
- It is the instrument that needs no national transposition.
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True
Why
True, and the wording of Article 288 TFEU is worth having verbatim. Direct applicability means no national act is needed for the regulation to be part of the law applied by national courts; indeed a state that "re-enacts" a regulation in its own statute is in breach, because it disguises the Union origin of the rule.
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