References for preliminary rulings

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National courts may also have to resolve conflicts between EU law and their national laws. The instances require a mechanism that involves the ECJ, allowing it to do what?

To offer authorative interpretations of EU law and to coordinate action at the national level.

What would happen without preliminary references?

The coherence and application of EU law would be at risk, since different national courts could give contradictory interpretations of EU law provisions.

In Case 6/64 Costa v ENEL [1964] ECR I-5357, the Court defined the principle of supremacy of EU law for the first time. It established that what?

That EU law, irrespective of its nature (whether it is a treaty provision or a directive), could not be overridden by domestic law, irrespective of the nature of national law. (In other words, if there is a conflict between EU law and national law (even a national constitution), EU law must prevail.)
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Further, in its famous ruling in Joined Cases C-6/90 and C-9/90 Andrea Francovich and ors v Italian Republic [1991] ECR I-5357, the Court established for the first time the principle of STATE LIABILITY, according to which what?

According to which individuals can seek compensation in national courts for loss suffered as a result of member states' breach of EU law.

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