The Maastricht Collection comprises a broad selection of legal instruments and provisions that have proven to be particularly relevant and useful to students and practitioners of international, European, and comparative law. The compilation is based on the long-standing expertise in teaching and researching European, international, and comparative national law at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law. It includes codes and statutory legislation from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, international treaties and instruments of international organisations, as well as the Treaties and selected secondary legal instruments of the European Union. The provisions contained in The Maastricht Collection are reproduced in the original English or in the authentic English version, where applicable, or they are freshly translated under critical editorship. Many existing translations of written law, including officious translations available on government websites, are significantly out of date and not sufficiently faithful to the original. They often seek to turn old-fashioned or ambiguous original texts into modern and elegant English. Or, instead of translating, they seek to explain how certain terms or formulations are interpreted in practice. The translations contained in The Maastricht Collection remain true to the content, style, and syntax of the original as far as possible, allowing the reader to appreciate not only the substance but also the authentic form of legal sources. Next to a comprehensive update and revision of all the instruments contained in The Maastricht Collection, this sixth edition also contains a number of useful additions, such as legislation relating to Brexit and statutory legislation on criminal procedure. With these updates and additions, The Maastricht Collection now presents itself as an even more comprehensive resource for students of European, international, and comparative law.
The sixth edition is divided into four reader-friendly volumes:
Vol. I – International and European Law
Vol. II – Comparative Public Law
Vol. III – International and European Private Law
Vol. IV – Comparative Private Law
The four volumes of The Maastricht Collection are available both separately and as a complete set.
Sascha Hardt is Assistant Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at Maastricht University. Nicole Kornet is Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at Maastricht University and programme coordinator of the European Law School.
Preface to the sixth edition
Contents
Volume II: Comparative Public Law
PART I Constitutional Law
France: Declaration of 1789
France: Preamble of 1946
France: Constitution
France: Electoral Code
Germany: Basic Law
German: Federal Elections Act
The Netherlands: Charter for the Kingdom
The Netherlands: Constitution
The Netherlands: Elections Act
United Kingdom: Bill of Rights 1689
United Kingdom: Parliament Act 1911/1949
United Kingdom: Human Rights Act 1998
United Kingdom: Constitutional Reform Act 2005
United Kingdom: Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010
United Kingdom: Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 2011
United Kingdom: Scotland Act 1998
United Kingdom: Northern Ireland Act 1998
United Kingdom: Government of Wales Act 2006
United Kingdom: European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
United States: Constitution and Amendments
PART II Administrative Law France: Code of Administrative Justice
France: Code of Relations between the Public and the Administration
France: Decree of exceptions to the application of the principle “silence amounts to acceptance”
Germany: Administrative Procedure Act
Germany: Administrative Court Procedure Act
The Netherlands: General Administrative Law Act
United Kingdom: Civil Procedure Rules 1998
United Kingdom: Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
United Kingdom: Senior Courts Act 1981
PART III Criminal Law
France: Criminal Code
France: Code of Criminal Procedure
Germany: Criminal Code
Germany: Administrative Offences Act
Germany: Code of Criminal Procedure
The Netherlands: Criminal Code
The Netherlands: Code of Criminal Procedure
United Kingdom: Miscellaneous Criminal Law Statutes
United Kingdom: Miscellaneous Criminal Procedure Statutes
EU: European Arrest Warrant
EU: Directive on Combating Terrorism
EU: Framework Decision on Freezing Orders