Supranational Law: Main Features
This article discusses the new phenomenae: supranational (suprastate) integrational public legal formations and a kind of unfinished supranational (suprastate) law. The integration of economic and political entities sometimes have only elements of regional international law and embryos of a peculiar similarity of internal legal regulations, but the European Union has formed unfinished law of supranational nature, it is identified the nature of that law and its features. In particular: the emergence of supranational law on the basis of concordance of the wills of the Member States and its subsequent development of the activities of law-making institutions of the EU; complex and incomplete character of EU law; the supremacy of EU law in relation to the domestic law of the Member States; operation of EU legal acts on the territory of the Member States is direct, without transformation of EU law into national law of the Member States; original methods of application of EU law.