sentences:  They have the ability to enforce legal norms against and for member states and citizens, in a way that public international law does not.According to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the early case, 26/62, of "NW Algemene Transporten Expeditie Onderneming van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Adminstratie der Belastingen" [1963] ECR 1, (often known as just "Van Gend en Loos") it constitutes "a new legal order of international law"