Exporting the Acquis Communautaire through European Union External Agreements

This book is a study of the legal dimensions of the concept of acquis communautaire . Using primary sources, it identifies and delimits the scope of the term in different contexts within EU legal discourse. The book starts by tracing the internal and external dimensions of acquis communautaire. These dimensions are distinguished by different objectives. The major objective of acquis communautaire in its internal dimension is to enable the consistent development of European Union (EU) law while ...