This is an intriguing work, starting from its lengthy title and subtitle, and a very worthwhile one. It is basically a scholarly account of the law and procedure that have developed in the more than three decades since the adoption of the EEC Treaty with regard to the ways in which compliance by the Member States of the European Communities’ with their obligations under Treaty and under growing Community law has been and is being assured. The book should be evaluated in several respects: first, as a treatise for the practitioner in European Community law; second, as a scholarly history of the development of the law and procedure of the European Communities, with possible lessons to be learned for the future; and finally, as a case study ofjurisprudential development in a fast-moving area of administrative and constitutional law. It provides a valuable contribution to the literature in each of those areas.
Blaise G.A. Pasztory