National institutional autonomy within the EU legal order: uncovering and addressing its distinctive appearances, origins and impact on Member States' administrations

Project Information

EUDAIMONIA

Grant agreement ID: 948473

DOI

10.3030/948473

Project closed

EC signature date 1 December 2020

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 497 687,00

EU contribution

€ 1 497 687,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE
Belgium

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

The data management plan will allow to highlight the strategies used to gather disseminate and protect the data on the basis of which our project will take shape

Publications

Other (9)

Conclusions and recommendations: framing Member States’ administrative autonomy against the background of EU legislative administrative design obligations

Author(s): Van Cleynenbreugel, Pieter
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Self-published working paper

From codifying procedure to proceduralising code? – The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence, Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts as instruments of cyberspace regulation and enforcement

Author(s): Van Cleynenbreugel, Pieter
Published in: Issue 4, 2023
Publisher: Self-published working paper

When the legal confronts the social: the competent authorities, the golden algae and the 2022 ecological disaster in the transboundary Oder River

Author(s): Katarzyna Aleksandra Jancewicz
Published in: ICON-S and EUSA Conference presentation, 2025
Publisher: Self-published conference presentation

The EU’s Nature Restoration Law and administrative designs of the Member States: does the procedural organise the institutional?

Author(s): Katarzyna Aleksandra Jancewicz
Published in: Conference presentation European Environmental law forum, 2025
Publisher: Self-published conference presentation

‘Competent authority’ and ‘competent authorities’ in primary EU law: agents of transboundary cooperation?

Author(s): Katarzyna Aleksandra Jancewicz
Published in: 2023
Publisher: University of Liège

List of factors influencing Member States’ administrative designs in the context of the application and enforcement of EU substantive law

Author(s): Van Cleynenbreugel, Pieter
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Self-published working paper

National Institutional Autonomy and EU law: time to reframe the stakes of interdisciplinary scholarship?

Author(s): Bois, Julien; Van Cleynenbreugel, Pieter
Published in: Issue 2, 2021
Publisher: Self-published working paper

EUDAIMONIA questionnaire results

Author(s): Bois, Julien
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Self-published working paper

Administrative design obligations in European Union secondary legislation: the emerging contours and constitutional cracks of an implicit legislative template

Author(s): Van Cleynenbreugel, Pieter
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Self-published working paper

Book chapters (6)

Structuring ‘procedural fairness’ through the principle of effectiveness: a promising starting point for a more uniform legal protection in EU digital law and beyond?

Author(s): Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel
Published in: The Standards of Fairness in Digital Law, 2025, Page(s) 313-341
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035338689.00018

Articles 49-55 du DSA: commentaire des dispositions relatives à l'organisation des autorités de contrôle

Author(s): Van Cleynenbreugel, Pieter
Published in: Issue 4, 2025
Publisher: Bruylant

An individual right to breathe clean air, at last? The promises and perils of the right of compensation

Author(s): Tecqmenne, Maxime
Published in: Greening the EU and the Rule of Law - Opportunities and Limits of the EU's Legal Powers, 2026
Publisher: Edward Elgar

Les enjeux de droit administratif européen du DSA

Author(s): Van Cleynenbreugel, Pieter
Published in: La régulation juridique des plateformes, 2025, Page(s) 193-212, ISBN 9782386000591
Publisher: Mare & Marin

"Independent administrative authorities and the sectoral ""Europeanisation"" of national administrative law: a European Union law perspective"

Author(s): Van Cleynenbreugel, Pieter
Published in: Liber Amicorum Michel Pâques - Dire et faire le droit, Issue 1, 2025, Page(s) 707-722, ISBN 9782807937888
Publisher: Larcier

The new regulatory framework on market abuse involving crypto-assets

Author(s): Van Cleynenbreugel, Pieter
Published in: Issue 18, 2024
Publisher: Anthemis

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Navigating the Complexities of the DSA’s Enforcement Framework: Sincere Cooperation in Action?

Author(s): Pietro Mattioli
Published in: Utrecht Law Review, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 19-35, ISSN 1871-515X
Publisher: Igitur, Utrecht Publishing and Archiving Services
DOI: 10.36633/ulr.1074

The mismatch between regulatory ideals and practical implementation: the challenges faced by national regulatory bodies in pursuit of the single European railway area

Author(s): Julien Bois
Published in: Journal of European Integration, 2025, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0703-6337
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2025.2543339

Does the European Union need a ‘Drought Directive’? A legal perspective

Author(s): Katarzyna Aleksandra Jancewicz
Published in: Teisė, Issue 130, 2024, Page(s) 55-65, ISSN 2424-6050
Publisher: Vilnius University Press
DOI: 10.15388/teise.2024.130.5

The Quasi-Judicial Role of National Competent Authorities: an Ambiguity that the Principle of Effective Judicial Protection could help address?

Author(s): Pietro Mattioli
Published in: Review of European Administrative Law, Issue 17, 2025, Page(s) 99-120, ISSN 1874-7981
Publisher: Paris Legal Publishers
DOI: 10.7590/187479824x17198441525157

Member States’ Discretion in Emergency Pesticide Authorisations: The Role of the EU Principles of Good Administration and the Precautionary Principle in Shaping Better National Administrative Practices

Author(s): Pietro Mattioli
Published in: Nordic Journal of European Law, Issue 8, 2025, Page(s) 70-101, ISSN 2003-1785
Publisher: Nordic Journal of European Law, Lund University
DOI: 10.36969/njel.v8i1.27003

Turning 'public interest litigation' into a positive obligation deriving from Article 47 of the Charter

Author(s): Tecqmenne, Maxime
Published in: Common Market Law Review, Issue 60, 2024, Page(s) 1745-1772, ISSN 0165-0750
Publisher: Kluwer Law International

Contested courts: from national administrative bodies to national regulatory authorities

Author(s): Pietro Mattioli
Published in: Revue de la Faculté de Droit de l'Université de Liège, Issue 2023(2), 2023, Page(s) 295-310, ISSN 1780-5511
Publisher: Larcier

The European Court of Justice, the EU Charter and the interpretation of fundamental social rights: Judicial law-making in disguise?

Author(s): Maxime Tecqmenne
Published in: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Issue 31, 2026, Page(s) 254-272, ISSN 1023-263X
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/1023263x241288909

Studying contemporary legal controversies: An Actor-Network Theory Approach of the European Union legal order

Author(s): Bois, Julien
Published in: Louvain Law Review, Issue 13, 2026, ISSN 2566-1329
Publisher: Larcier

Local Community Engagement in Pesticide Regulation: A Commentary on the Italian Council of State's Judgment in the Municipality of Malles Case

Author(s): Pietro Mattioli
Published in: Review of European Administrative Law, Issue 18, 2025, Page(s) 161-176, ISSN 1874-7981
Publisher: Paris Legal Publishers
DOI: 10.7590/187479825x17562060647915

How Can New Scientific and Technical Knowledge Affect the Authorisation of Plant Protection Products at Member State Level? Some Clarifications from the Court of Justice

Author(s): Pietro Mattioli
Published in: European Journal of Risk Regulation, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 824-830, ISSN 1867-299X
Publisher: Lexxion
DOI: 10.1017/err.2024.96

Turning “public interest litigation” into a positive obligation deriving from Article 47 of the Charter: Deutsche Umwelthilfe

Author(s): Maxime Tecqmenne
Published in: Common Market Law Review, Issue 60(6), 2023, Page(s) 1745-1772, ISSN 0165-0750
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
DOI: 10.54648/cola2023123

Digital Services Coordinators and other competent authorities in the Digital Services Act: streamlined enforcement coordination lost?

Author(s): Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel, Pietro Mattioli
Published in: European Law Blog, 2024, ISSN 2950-1970
Publisher: University of Amsterdam
DOI: 10.21428/9885764c.f18f26b8

Monographic books (1)

Shaping the EU's Shadow administration through law - Legal and empirical perspectives on Member States’ administrative organisation obligations

Author(s): Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel Julien Bois Pietro Mattioli Katarzyna Aleksandra Jancewicz
Published in: Larcier EU Law Series, 2027
Publisher: Larcier

Conference proceedings (4)

Inconsistent administrative enforcement of EU law at Member State level: the Lisbon Treaty’s hidden constitutional challenge?

Author(s): Katarzyna Aleksandra Jancewicz Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel Julien Bois
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Self-published working paper

A Patchwork or a Uniform? Organisational Designs of Member States’ Administrations in the EU

Author(s): Katarzyna Aleksandra Jancewicz
Published in: EULEN Working Paper, 2024
Publisher: EULEN Working Paper Series

The role of science in the EU plant health regime: insights from the Xylella fastidiosa outbreak.

Author(s): Mattioli, Pietro
Published in: Issue 2, 2025
Publisher: Self-published working paper

EU’s water management and climate change: Towards a European Union Water Agency?

Author(s): Katarzyna Aleksandra Jancewicz
Published in: The 2023 Annual Max Planck European Law Group Conference on the Past and Future of European Law, 2023
Publisher: Self-published conference paper

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Les limites de l'office du juge de l'Union mises à l'épreuve de l'évolution des standards de droits fondamentaux: Vers une conception renouvelée du droit à (ré)concilier vie familiale et professionnelle?

Author(s): Maxime Tecqmenne
Published in: Revue de la Faculté de Droit de l'Université de Liège, Issue 2023(2), 2023, Page(s) 267-294, ISSN 1780-5511
Publisher: Larcier

Thesis and dissertations (2)

From periphery to core: The influence of regulatory context on judicial protection in EU environmental, equality, and asylum law

Author(s): Tecqmenne, Maxime
Published in: Issue 3, 2025
Publisher: University of Liège

Between autonomy and integration: framing the complementarity of EU and Member States' law in the administrative design of national competent authorities

Author(s): Pietro Mattioli
Published in: 2026
Publisher: University of Liège