me theoretical knowledge about harmonization of the EU and to understand the different categories that the concept of harmonization can be divided in and also what the degree and scope of harmonization is. The section ends with the highlighting of the different methods that are used as instruments for eliminating (limiting) unfair differences in legal regimes in the EU. Thereafter section 3 discusses the enforcement of law in the EU and which actions that can be taken against a member state that does not implement a EU directive about law harmonization. Finally the last section (section 4) briefly concludes the discussed issues and relates it to my main research question.
2.1 What does law harmonization mean?
Harmonization can broadly be described as making the governmental policies and the regulatory requests of different jurisdictions as similar as possible, or if possible, to make them identical.
David W Leebon finds four different types of harmonization categories (Rules, Policy Goals, Principles and Institutions) , which are briefly explained below. It got to be noticed that Leebon claims that the categories are fuzzy, but helpful for the understanding of harmonization of laws, and should therefore broadly be seen as kind of ideal models.
Rules: Harmonization of particular rules that control the outcome, performance and the characteristics of economic goods, transaction, institutions, and productive facilities. This kind of harmonization is not only referring to the characteristics of the outcome but also to how it is produced. One example of this could be to make pollution regulations for farmers more similar between the EU-member states. Another example could be to make the regulation for working place safety in the member states more alike.
Policy goals: This refers to harmonization of the objective of governmental policies. This means for example that the member states can agree on that the inflation got to...