Title:Fair Trade in the European Union: Regulatory and institutional aspects
Author(s):CREMONA, Marise; MARIN DURAN, GraciaDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter establishes the current regulatory and institutional framework for fair trade in the European Union, both in some of its Member States (part I) and at the level of the EU itself (part II). Enquiring into how ...
Title:The International Fair Trade Movement: Actors and regulatory approaches
Author(s):CREMONA, Marise; MARIN DURAN, GraciaDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter examines the international fair trade movement, which is presently composed of two main private networks: that operating under the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), and that operating under Fairtrade ...
Title:Who Can Make Treaties? The European Union
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:The European Union is unique as a treaty-making actor. It is one of the most prolific makers of treaties, and although it is certainly true that treaties in general have gained in importance as a source of law over the ...
Title:The Two (or Three) Treaty Solution: The New Treaty Structure of the EU
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:The Treaty of Lisbon is essentially an amending Treaty; it amended the Treaty on European Union and EC Treaty, renaming the latter the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU). These amendments are major ones and include ...
Title:Coherence and EU External Environmental Policy
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter explores the rules and principles underpinning the concept of coherence in EU external policy, in the specific context of external environmental policy. The focus will be on inter-policy coherence, and the ...
Title:Member States Agreements as Union Law
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:International agreements concluded by the European Union are binding on the institutions of the Union and on its Member States. They have been said by the European Court of Justice to be an integral part of the Union legal ...
Title:EU External Action in the JHA Domain: A Legal Perspective
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:Despite the importance of the external dimension of the EU’s policy on freedom, security and justice (AFSJ), reaffirmed in the Stockholm Programme, it is not possible to speak of a single ‘AFSJ external policy’; the scope ...
Title:Values in EU Foreign Policy
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:The focus of this chapter is on the role played in the EU’s foreign policy by those values which the EU claims as (in some sense) ‘its own’, and the legal instruments and processes through which values are both imported ...
Title:Introduction
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookSeries/Report no.:Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law
Title:External Relations and External Competence of the European Union: The emergence of an integrated policy
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:The objective of this chapter is to examine three inter-connected themes which have emerged in the evolutionary development of the Union as an international actor. The first theme relates to the relationship between internal ...
Title:The EU and Global Emergencies: Competence and instruments
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter addresses the Union’s competences and the instruments it may use in emergency situations. Based on the principle of conferred powers, the Union is not all-competent. It must base its actions on a legal basis ...
Title:Coherence in Foreign Policy: The legal dimension
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter discusses the role which may be played by legal norms (rules and principles) in seeking to achieve coherence in EU foreign policy. The premise is not that legal norms are the best way (or a better way) to ...