Article 189 EEC Treaty

E1029229

provision of primary EU law treaty article

Article 189 of the EEC Treaty is the provision that defined the legal nature and binding force of Community acts—such as regulations, directives, and decisions—within the European Economic Community’s legal order.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Article 189 EEC	1
Article 189 EEC Treaty canonical	1
ex Article 189 EEC	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13133736 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: Article 189 EEC Treaty
Context triple: [Costa v ENEL, articleInterpreted, Article 189 EEC Treaty]

A. Article 177 EEC Treaty
Article 177 EEC Treaty is the foundational provision establishing the preliminary reference procedure, enabling national courts to refer questions on the interpretation and validity of Community law to the European Court of Justice.
B. Article 12 EEC Treaty
Article 12 EEC Treaty is a foundational provision of the original European Economic Community Treaty that prohibits member states from introducing new customs duties or increasing existing ones in trade between them, and was famously recognized as having direct effect in EU law.
C. Article 82 EC Treaty
Article 82 EC Treaty is a core provision of European Union competition law that prohibits the abuse of a dominant market position by undertakings within the internal market.
D. Article 81 EC Treaty
Article 81 EC Treaty was a core provision of European Union competition law that prohibited anti-competitive agreements and concerted practices between undertakings affecting trade between Member States.
E. Article 95 of the EC Treaty
Article 95 of the EC Treaty was a key internal market provision empowering the European Community to adopt harmonizing legislation to remove obstacles to trade and distortions of competition within the EU.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Article 189 EEC Treaty
Target entity description: Article 189 of the EEC Treaty is the provision that defined the legal nature and binding force of Community acts—such as regulations, directives, and decisions—within the European Economic Community’s legal order.

A. Article 177 EEC Treaty
Article 177 EEC Treaty is the foundational provision establishing the preliminary reference procedure, enabling national courts to refer questions on the interpretation and validity of Community law to the European Court of Justice.
B. Article 12 EEC Treaty
Article 12 EEC Treaty is a foundational provision of the original European Economic Community Treaty that prohibits member states from introducing new customs duties or increasing existing ones in trade between them, and was famously recognized as having direct effect in EU law.
C. Article 82 EC Treaty
Article 82 EC Treaty is a core provision of European Union competition law that prohibits the abuse of a dominant market position by undertakings within the internal market.
D. Article 81 EC Treaty
Article 81 EC Treaty was a core provision of European Union competition law that prohibited anti-competitive agreements and concerted practices between undertakings affecting trade between Member States.
E. Article 95 of the EC Treaty
Article 95 of the EC Treaty was a key internal market provision empowering the European Community to adopt harmonizing legislation to remove obstacles to trade and distortions of competition within the EU.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	provision of primary EU law ⓘ treaty article ⓘ
adopted	1957 ⓘ
adoptedBy	Member States of the European Economic Community ⓘ linked to: Member States of the European Union
alsoKnownAs	Article 189 EEC ⓘ linked to: Article 189 EEC Treaty ex Article 189 EEC ⓘ linked to: Article 189 EEC Treaty
appliesTo	decisions of the European Economic Community ⓘ directives of the European Economic Community ⓘ linked to: EU acquis communautaire opinions of the European Economic Community ⓘ recommendations of the European Economic Community ⓘ regulations of the European Economic Community ⓘ linked to: Regulation (EC)
appliesWithin	territory of the Member States of the European Economic Community ⓘ
characterizes	decisions as binding in their entirety upon those to whom they are addressed ⓘ directives as binding as to the result to be achieved ⓘ directives as leaving to national authorities the choice of form and methods ⓘ opinions as having no binding force ⓘ recommendations as having no binding force ⓘ regulations as binding in their entirety ⓘ regulations as directly applicable in all Member States ⓘ regulations as generally applicable ⓘ
citedBy	Court of Justice of the European Communities ⓘ linked to: Court of Justice of the European Union
defines	binding force of Community acts ⓘ legal nature of Community acts ⓘ
establishes	binding effect of Community secondary legislation ⓘ hierarchy of Community legal acts ⓘ
formsPartOf	institutional framework of the European Economic Community ⓘ
governs	effects of Community acts in Member States ⓘ
influenced	doctrine of direct applicability of regulations ⓘ doctrine of direct effect of certain directives ⓘ
inForceFrom	1 January 1958 ⓘ
language	Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ
legalSystem	European Economic Community legal order ⓘ linked to: European Union legal order
locatedInInstrument	Treaty of Rome ⓘ
partOf	Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ⓘ linked to: Treaty of Rome
region	Europe ⓘ
subjectMatter	secondary legislation of the European Economic Community ⓘ sources of Community law ⓘ
successorProvision	Article 249 EC Treaty ⓘ Article 288 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Costa v ENEL → articleInterpreted → Article 189 EEC Treaty ⓘ

Article 189 EEC Treaty → alsoKnownAs → Article 189 EEC ⓘ

linked to: Article 189 EEC Treaty

Article 189 EEC Treaty → alsoKnownAs → ex Article 189 EEC ⓘ