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The EU-Ukraine association agreement : assessment of an innovative legal instrument
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EUI LAW; 2014/09
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VAN DER LOO, Guillaume, VAN ELSUWEGE, Peter, PETROV, Roman, The EU-Ukraine association agreement : assessment of an innovative legal instrument, EUI LAW, 2014/09 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/32031
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This paper analyses the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA). It argues that this new legal framework, which has the objective to establish a unique form of political association and economic integration, is characterised by three specific features : comprehensiveness, complexity and conditionality. After a brief background of the EU-Ukraine relations, the following aspects are scrutinised: legal basis and objectives, institutional framework and mechanisms of enhanced conditionality and legislative approximation. In addition, constitutional challenges for the effective implementation of the EU-Ukraine AA are discussed. Based upon a comparison with other EU external agreements, it is demonstrated that the AA is an innovative legal instrument providing for a new type of integration without membership.