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

by Edited by Alan Dashwood , Marc Maresceau

• ISBN13: 9780521899239
• ISBN10: 0521899230
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-27
• 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 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 geo-political perspective. The third part selects two specific substantive law areas - intellectual property law and environment law - as examples which illustrate the specific relationship between domestic policy and external relations.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. viii
Notes on contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Constitutional and institutional questions	p. 11
Direct effect and interpretation of international agreements in the recent case law of the European Court of Justice	p. 13
Defining competence in EU external relations: lessons from the Treaty reform process	p. 34
Article 47 TEU and the relationship between first and second pillar competences	p. 70
EC law and UN Security Council Resolutions - in search of the right fit	p. 104
Fundamental rights and the interface between second and third pillar	p. 129
The EU as a party to international agreements: shared competences, mixed responsibilities	p. 152
The Common Commercial Policy enhanced by the Reform Treaty of Lisbon?	p. 188
The extent to which the EC legislature takes account of WTO obligations: jousting lessons from the European Parliament	p. 202
Bilateral and regional approaches	p. 225
The relations between the EU and Switzerland	p. 227
The relations between the EU and Andorra, San Marino and Monaco	p. 270
The EU's Neighbourhood Policy towards Eastern Europe	p. 309
The four Common Spaces: new impetus to the EU-Russia Strategic Partnership?	p. 334
The EU's Strategic Partnership with the Mediterranean and the Middle East: a new geopolitical dimension of the EU's proximity strategies	p. 360
The EU's transatlantic relationship	p. 376
Selected substantive areas	p. 399
With eyes wide shut: the EC strategy to enforce intellectual property rights abroad	p. 401
EU environmental law and its green footprints in the world	p. 429
Table of Treaty Provisions	p. 465
Index	p. 467
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