Sentence examples for shared competences from inspiring English sources

The killer clause for anti-federalists, though, is Article 12 on "shared competences".

Indeed, in a section on "shared competences" there are many areas (including, again, those concerning "social cohesion") where the EU should really be kept out.

In setting that earlier project aside, Habermas adopts a more naturalistic, "postmetaphysical" approach (1992a), characterized by the fallible hermeneutic explication or "reconstruction" of shared competences and normative presuppositions that allow actors to engage in familiar practices of communication, discourse, and inquiry.

At the moment, it is difficult to imagine how, in practice, those shared competences will influence the effectiveness of the work of the respective Commissioners.

The TFEU divides competences into three categories (Title I) (1.1.5): exclusive competences, shared competences and competences to carry out actions to coordinate, support or supplement the actions of the Member States.

But there are many grey areas of shared competence.

Instead, the Union is given vaguely specified "shared competence" in wide areas of policy.

Section II is a historical overview of the development of shared competence.

The necessary condition for exercise of shared competence is an agreement that is both a Community and national agreement, which inevitably creates a rather confusing situation.

But in saying that, "Where the Union has not exercised or ceases to exercise its competence in an area of shared competence, the member states may exercise theirs," it seems to be saying, to Eurosceptic ears, that national governments will only be free to act in these areas when the Union chooses not to.

The conferral of competencies allows the European Community (EC) to act with a single voice in its external trade relations in those areas where, according to the Treaties of the European Communities, there is shared competence between the Member States and the EC.