Translation of "General principle" in German

The principle of protection of legitimate expectations is a general principle of Community law.

As a general principle, the strengthening of the EU's role in multilateral frameworks has been approved.

That must indeed be the general principle.

However, general principle policies do tend to fail in practice.

I personally think that it is impossible to create a general precautionary principle which applies in all situations.

However, we should be focusing, as a general principle, on the European value-added of these programmes to a greater extent.

I want to raise the question of the general principle behind this initiative.

This quotation, however, only set out a general principle.

Still, the general principle seems like an important step towards fiscal sanity.

This general principle has three important consequences:

The precautionary principle is a general risk management principle used by the public authorities.

The general principle laid down in Article 61(1) of the EEA Agreement is that State aid is prohibited.

Article 38 sets out the general principle for information disclosures.