Article 117 [National Measures]

Article 117 TFEU belongs to the chapter of the Treaty dedicated to law approximation, but—unlike all other four articles (Articles 114, 115, 116 and 118 TFEU) of the same chapter—it does not include any prerogatives whatsoever that would allow the adoption of approximation legislation on the EU level (→ para 2). Moreover, a combined reading of Articles 116 and 117 TFEU (→ Article 116 TFEU para 18) reveals that the latter—even if only by double reference (in both paragraphs) to it – is, in various aspects, subsidiary to the former and, more generally, interdependent with it (→ para 3).