Evolving Practice in EU Enlargement with Case Studies in Agri-Food and Environment Law

XVIII, 446 Pp. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18166-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 828 g

Reihe: Studies in EU External Relations

Following some ten years as a practicing lawyer and consultant, Kirstyn Inglis has been researching the evolving legal practice of EU enlargement for over ten years and successfully defended her PhD on the subject in 2006. This book, succinctly, introduces this evolving practice, covering ‘transitional arrangements’ in accession treaties, the Treaty of Lisbon, recent European Court case law, the specific governance challenge of incorporating Bulgaria and Romania and the strategy for future enlargements to bring in the Western Balkans and Turkey. In part two, the examples of the environment and the agri-food acquis are explored, including the analysis of the transitional arrangements in practice. Overall, the diversity and complexity of the pre-accession and post-accession challenge of enlargement becomes apparent, as do key challenges for the evolution of the acquis communautaire in an enlarging Union at a time when Croatia is waiting to sign an own accession treaty.

Zielgruppe

Those interested in EU external relations law, particularly EU enlargement practice and governance, including the preparations strategy (pre-accession), accession treaties and transitional arrangements, and how it is implemented in the agri-food and environment acquis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Inglis, Kirstyn

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Energie-, Agrar- und Fischereirecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I EVOLVING PRACTICE IN EUROPEAN UNION ENLARGEMENT

Chapter 1: Eligible candidates and procedural steps to accession
Chapter 2: The Copenhagen criteria: efforts required before and after accession
Chapter 3: The pre-accession strategy: from Agenda 2000 to date
Chapter 4: Accession Treaties: transitional arrangements and other means to ease the impact of enlargement
Chapter 5: New flexibility mechanisms in the 2003 and 2005 Accession Treaties

PART II CASE STUDIES ON EC ENVIRONMENT AND AGRI-FOOD LAW

Chapter 6: EC environment law
Chapter 7: EC agri-food law

Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Kirstyn Inglis qualified as a Scottish solicitor in 1990 and moved to Brussels to specialise in European law. Later, she shifted into academic research, defending her PhD thesis at Ghent University (2006). She is now Post-doc Research Fellow (FWO) there.