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Examine the law making powers of the Community Institutions and the legal effects of Community laws.  

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Examine the law making powers of the Community Institutions and the legal effects of Community laws The four main EC institutions that will be focussed on in this essay are the Commission, the Council, the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice. While others exist, it is these four institutions that are of interest for the purposes of this essay as they are the main bodies concerning legislation. This essay will examine each of these institutions in terms of their makeup, relative legislative power and then discuss the legal effects of each of the major types of EC laws. The College of Commissioners, more commonly known as the Commission, consists of 20 members each appointed on a renewable five year terms. According to the Treaty of Rome there must be at least one commissioner from each member state with a maximum of 2. The current convention is that the 5 larger...

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