EU procedural law The European Union is unique amongst international organisations in that it has a highly developed and coherent system of judicial protection. The rights derived from Union law can be enforced in court as opposed to other international organisations whereby enforceability is often far less certain. At the heart of the system of judicial protection in the European Union is the core principle of upholding the rule of law. As such the stakes are high in the sense that the system ofthe judicial protection in the European Union must live up to its promise in which individuals Member States and U