Proportionality

Proportionality

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on proportionality explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.

Meaning of Proportionality

Here is a very short concept of proportionality in the European Union framework: Proportionality is the principle, often linked with the principle of subsidiarity, that Community legislation should be the minimum necessary to achieve its purpose.

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See Also

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Further Reading

• The entry “proportionality” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press