Product Description

* The ideal text for general European courses at undergraduate level * Serves as a reference work for legal practitioners on points of principle * Presents detailed commentary on, and analysis of, the European Union and its substantive law * Covers the constitutional structure of the EU, examining the functioning of the institutions, the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, and the nature of the European legal order * Provides detailed coverage of the free movement of goods, persons and services, competition law, and state aids * Includes boxed summaries at the start of each chapter summarising the key points * Provides a list of further reading at the end of each chapter New for the 5th Edition * New chapters on the Constitutional Treaty, Corporate Establishment and Cross Border Investment, Citizenship, Fundamental Rights, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. * Key recent case law from the European Courts * Recent developments in EU citizenship rights and the new residency directive of 2004 (in force 2006) * Accession treaties 2003 and 2005 and transitional arrangements for EU 10 workers * Company law harmonisation and its contribution to the internal market and the removal of obstacles to cross frontier activity caused by national tax rules * Harmonisation of labelling rules and the need to enforce mutual recognition through Community legislation * Regulation 1/2003, radically restructuring the enforcement of Arts 81-82 * The new Community framework for state aid in the form of public service compensation * The impact of the Treaty of Nice and the Treaties of Accession * The EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, looking at the background to the Charter's drafting and its incorporation in the new Constitutional Treaty * Policy developments such as the Commission's latest Internal Market Strategy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #302674 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 1224 pages

Customer Reviews

Rubbish
This book totally sucks. Its too big and the writing is too tiny so it means it takes forever to read, its not in a great order and so not worth the money of the space on the book shelf.

It got me even more confused about EU Law and I didn't understand a word.

Good luck!

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