CHARTA ZÁKLADNÝCH PRÁV EÚ V KONANÍ O SÚLADE PRÁVNYCH PREDPISOV: ZATIAĽ RUTINA NAMIESTO DOKTRÍNY

The article deals with the interpretation and application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in proceedings on the conformity of legal provisions before the Constitutional court of the Slovak Republic. The authors analyse the only findings of the Constitutional court concerning the Charter. They proceed from the existing theoretical basis of the problem and the case law of the court justice of the EU and some other constitutional courts. The important conclusion of the authors is that the Constitutional court have missed the opportunity to clarify several crucial questions, mainly the scope of application of the Charter in the national legal order and the relations between the Charter and the Constitution of the Slovak Republic and the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental freedoms. The authors propose some points of departure for the Constitutional court in proceedings on the conformity of legal provisions which might lead to the better understanding of the position and the scope of application of the charter in these proceedings with specific regard of its capacity to be an independent basis of the judicial review.