Cases involving the Institutions of the EU (unfinished)

Re Tachographs: EC Commission v UK (1979)

• There was a regulation that required all heavy goods vehicles to be fitted with a tachograph machine to limit the number of hours a driver is allowed on the road without a break
• Regulations are primary legislation, meaning that they are directly applicable
• The case held as the UK didn't bring this law into effect and so breached the Treaty
• The ECJ forced the UK to implement the law