Volltext: Rapport national [Englisch]

XVI. Congress of the Conference of European Constitutional Courts 
Cooperation of Constitutional Courts in Europe - 
Current Situation and Perspectives 
National Report by the State Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein 
Author: Univ.-Doz. Dr. Peter Bussjüger, Judge at the State Court of the Principality of 
Liechtenstein and Research Fellow Law at the Liechtenstein Institute, Bendern 
In the following text, the questions asked are answered from the point of view of the State 
Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein. 
I. Constitutional courts between constitutional law and European law! 
1. Is the constitutional court obliged by law to consider European law in the 
performance of its tasks? 
Such an obligation exists in various ways, namely as a result of Liechtenstein's membership to 
the EEA, to the Schengen Area, its association in the field of application of the Dublin 
Regulation, and Liechtenstein's membership to the ECHR. It is important to note that as a 
result of the uncontested monistic understanding of international law in Liechtenstein, 
international law applies directly?, which is of particular importance for the EEA (see right 
below). 
EEA Agreement 
The Agreement on the EEA (EEAA) leads to an obligation of Member States to apply EEA 
law, which among other things includes the obligation to transpose Directives into national 
law and to apply regulations directly. The State Court has ruled very early that "EEA law — 
  
! In the present context, "European law" is understood to mean the law of the European Union, the law of the 
European Economic Area (EEA), the Schengen/Dublin acquis, and the law of the Council of Europe, in particular 
the European Convention on Human Rights. 
? To this effect StGH 1995/14, cons. 1.4 = LES 1996, p. 119 — 124 (p. 122); see also Daniel Thürer, Liechtenstein 
und die Vólkerrechtsordnung, Archiv des Vólkerrechts vol. 36 issue 2 1998, p. 98 — 127 (p. 109); Peter 
Bussjáger, Rechtsfragen des Vorrangs und der Anwendbarkeit von EWR-Recht in Liechtenstein, 
Liechtensteinische Juristen-Zeitung 2006, p. 140 — 146 (p. 140 et seq.).
	        

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