The rule of law in the European Union rests on a precarious decentralised judicial architecture with the two pillars of the judicatures of the EU and of the Member States. Judicial protection emerges as the meta-norm for the governance of this complex governance scheme. It re-orientates the entire EU judicial architecture towards protecting individual rights grounded in EU law. The article makes three supporting arguments: First, the norm of judicial protection has become institutionalised in law, through the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the Treaty on European Union and relating jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court). Further, as judicial protection becomes a meta-norm, capable of overriding even conflicting primary EU law that would preserve the discretion of the political EU institutions or the procedural autonomy of the Member States. Finally, by reference to the norm of judicial protection, the Court’s doctrine has been shaping a single code of procedure that welds the entire twin-pillared EU judicial architecture into a coherent whole. The article documents this single code of procedure for a horizontal dimension of the Court of Justice of the EU and a vertical dimension of the Member States courts. The implications of this rise of judicial protection to meta-norm applies to a wide variety of debates on the judicial architecture, ranging from a EU federal question jurisdiction of Member States courts, enforcement of the independence of the judiciary in the sovereign Member States, to the integration of international and third-country courts. The article concludes that the ultimate legitimacy of European integration depends on rights being taken seriously through their guaranteed judicial protection.

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司法保护作为欧盟司法体系中的元规范

欧洲联盟的法治基于a可危的权力下放的司法体系，具有欧盟和成员国司法体系的两个支柱。司法保护已成为该复杂治理方案治理的元规范。它重新定位了整个欧盟司法体系，以保护以欧盟法律为基础的个人权利。该条提出了三个支持性的论点：首先，通过《基本权利宪章》，《欧洲联盟条约》以及欧洲联盟法院（法院）的相关判例，司法保护的规范已在法律上制度化。此外，随着司法保护成为元规范，能够推翻甚至冲突的欧盟基本法律，从而保留欧盟政治机构的裁量权或成员国的程序自主权。最后，通过参考司法保护规范，法院的学说一直在塑造一个单一的程序代码，将整个双柱式欧盟司法体系融合为一个连贯的整体。该文章记录了欧盟法院水平和成员国法院垂直尺寸的单一程序代码。司法保护的兴起对元规范的影响适用于关于司法体系的各种辩论，包括欧盟对成员国法院的联邦管辖权问题，在主权成员国中司法机构的独立性的执行，整合国际法院和第三国法院。文章的结论是，欧洲一体化的最终合法性取决于权利受到保障的司法保护的重视。