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Reappraising Subsidiarity's Significance after Amsterdam - Contents

• I. Introduction
  • Setting the context
  • 'Appropriate' levels of decision-making
  • Exclusive compartments or overlapping spheres?
  • Internal and external dimensions
• II. The adoption of subsidiarity into EC and EU law
  • Seeking definition: legal and political dimensions
  • Popular alienation and democratic concerns
  • The dual legal expression of subsidiarity at Maastricht
    • Discovering the objectives of the Community
    • The formal scope of subsidiarity: identifying 'non-exclusive' competence
    • Integrating proportionality
• III. Fleshing out the subsidiarity concept: The Amsterdam Protocol
  • When is Community action appropriate?
  • Linking subsidiarity and proportionality
    • Softer forms of law and shared policy-making
    • The proceduralisation of subsidiarity: reasoning, consultation and reporting
    • Subsidiarity and the inter-institutional dimension
  • Subsidiarity and the Court of Justice
• IV. Conclusion

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