64 research outputs found
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PRIMARY SOURCES OF EUROPEAN UNION LAW: IS THERE A ‘HIERARCHY’ WITHIN UNION PRIMARY LAW?
Sentient beings and tradable products: The curious constitutional status of animals under Union law
This article aims to make sense of the ways in which a paradox manifests itself in the Union’s constitutional architecture: the dual status attributed to animals as both “products” and “sentient beings”. The introduction of the notion “sentient beings” in Article 13 TFEU purports to reshape the existing understanding of animal welfare in EU law. But, in practice, this shift creates clear tensions with the previous status of, and protections for, animals as “products” under Union law. The article seeks to explore the reasons for this “duality” and its possible consequences. In particular, the discussion is framed by the constitutional limits as to what the EU can achieve in the context of animal welfare, and the social and political context within which animal welfare has to operate. This leads to the question of whether the formal tensions under Union primary law relating to the dual status of animals are perhaps inevitable in contemporary legal systems which employ an animal welfare paradigm
Computed Tomography Imaging Features and Changes in Hemostatic Agents After Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy
Cooperative interactions between androgen receptor (AR) and heat-shock protein 27 facilitate AR transcriptional activity
Waiting Time From Initial Urological Consultation to Nephrectomy for Renal Cell Carcinoma—Does it Affect Survival?
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