Autonomous Interpretation of Conflicting EU Law and Uniform Private Law Conventions: The Role of National Courts

There is a genuine conflict of norms when, within the same legal order, two norms regulating the same object are in force and stand at the same level of hierarchy.

When the contradictory norms do not stand at the same level or do not belong to the same legal order, there is no antinomy;1 there is rather some ‘tension’.