RUDN Journal of LawRUDN Journal of Law2313-23372408-9001Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)5676Supranational in the European Union and the effect of community lawMescheryakovaO MКафедра международного права; Российский университет дружбы народов; Peoples' Friendship University of Russiaom23375@gmail.comPeoples' Friendship University of Russia15042011417217907092016Copyright © 2016, Legal Science2016Article is devoted to concept «supranational» and to the sovereignty of states-members of the European Union. The dissertation represents complex research of legal aspects of supranational in modem law of the European Union. Article is devoted such important during an epoch of creation of integration communities to a problem as a question on a parity of the supranational in the European Union which as the main principle assumes a principle a priority of the right of the Union over the national right of member states, and also a principle of direct action of the right of the European Union and sovereign statehood of the countries-participants. After all the European Union is an integration community which, certainly, assumes that its participants and founders are the sovereign states. However presence of two specified principles is not absolutely combined with the developed representations about the internationalcommunity lawLisbon Treatysupranationalsovereignty of member-states of the European UnionintegrationEuropean Uniondivision of competencesspecial measures of legal regulationglobalizationauthoritysupranationalinternational organizationкоммунитарное правоЛиссабонский договорнаднациональностьсуверенитет государств - членов Европейского СоюзаинтеграцияЕвропейский Союзразграничение компетенцийспециальные меры правового регулированияглобализацияполномочиемеждународная организация