Date: 2008
Type: Article
Exporting the 'acquis communautaire' into the legal systems of third countries
European foreign affairs review, 2008, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 33-52
PETROV, Roman, Exporting the 'acquis communautaire' into the legal systems of third countries, European foreign affairs review, 2008, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 33-52
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This article explores the role of the EU as a global actor in international relations and
a promoter of its own standards and values abroad. In particular, this article studies selected
substantive and procedural means of exporting the acquis communautaire into the legal systems
of third countries. It is argued that the substantive means refer to the fundamental ways of
implementing the acquis into third country legal orders. The procedural means relate to specific
technical/procedural tools which either directly or indirectly encourage the implementation
of the acquis into third country legal orders. The article concludes that these substantive and
procedural means are not uniformly applicable, but are rather exercised in accordance with the
specific objectives of EU external agreements. Analysis of the selected EU external agreements
illustrates that their objectives unquestionably constitute a driving force behind understanding
the role and mechanism of the substantive and procedural means of exporting the acquis
communautaire
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/7994
ISSN: 1384-6299
Publisher: Kluwer Law International