Direct and indirect effect of European Union directives in the context of European Union Court of Justice decisions

The objective of this article is to analyze the direct effect of EU directives in vertical and horizontal legal relationships as well as the indirect effect of EU directives in the context of EU Court of Justice decisions. In particular, attention is paid to the study of the consolidated legal positions regarding the possibility of the " vertical direct effect", "horizontal direct effect" and "indirect effect" of EU directives. Dialectical, comparativelegal, historical, and formal dogmatic methods were used in the research. As the result of analyze was made the conclusion that the EU directives, which are used by national courts to fulfill their obligations regarding the respective interpretation, can not be considered with direct effect, because in such disputes they serve as a means of determining the scope of other legal provisions that the national court treats or interprets. In such situations, the directive may be applied in cases indirectly, that is, by virtue of another (national) provision, as interpreted.