Law and Practice of EU External Relations: Salient Features of a Changing Landscape

by Edited by Alan Dashwood , Marc Maresceau

• ISBN13: 9780521182553
• ISBN10: 0521182557
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Expanding European Union activity on the international scene has led to development of the legal concepts, principles and rules that govern it. External relations law and practice have also been affected by events within the EU. This 2009 volume takes stock of the recent developments in the external relations law and practice of the EC/EU and investigates the increasing interaction between these different fields of Union competence. The first part of this book addresses issues that are broadly constitutional or institutional in character. The second part deals with various aspects of substantive external relations considered in a geographical or geopolitical perspective. The third part selects two specific substantive law areas - intellectual property law and environment law - as examples that illustrate the specific relationship between domestic policy and external relations.

Table of Contents

Constitutional and Institutional Questions:

Direct effect and interpretation of international agreements in the recent case law of the European Court of Justice

Defining competence in EU external relations: lessons from the Constitutional Treaty

Article 47 TEU and the relationship between first and second pillar competences

EC Law and UN Security Council resolutions - in search of the right fit

Fundamental rights and the interface between second and third pillar

The EU as a party to international agreements: shared competences? Mixed responsibilities?

Will the common commercial policy be impeded by non-ratification of the Constitutional Treaty?

The extent to which the EC legislature takes account of WTO obligations: jousting lessons from the European Parliament

Bilateral and Regional Approaches:

The relations between the EU and Switzerland

The relations between the EU and Andorra

The EU's Neighbourhood Policy towards Eastern Europe

The four common spaces: new impetus to the EU-Russia strategic partnership?

The EU's Strategic Partnership with the Mediterranean and the Middle East: a new geopolitical dimension of the EU's proximity strategies

The EU's transatlantic relationship

Selected Substantive Areas:

With eyes wide shut: the EC strategy to enforce intellectual property rights abroad

EU environmental law and its green footprints in the world

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