Sentences with phrase «unexercised competence»

Here the AG found that the Union did have sufficient «interest» in the matter following from an as yet unexercised competence contained in Article 223 (2) TFEU to adopt a uniform election procedure or common principles.

For the Court, the matter as a whole fell within Union law following not from the existence of an interest or unexercised competence but rather from the obligation contained in Article 14 (3) TEU and the 1976 Act on the elections to the European Parliament that such elections be «universal and direct».