Evolving Practice In EU Enlargement With Case Studies In Agri-Food And Environment Law

Following some ten years as a practicing lawyer and consultant, Kirstyn Inglis has been researching the evolving legal practice of EU enlargement for over ten years. This book, succinctly, introduces this evolving practice, covering ‘transitional arrangements’ in accession treaties, the Treaty of Lisbon, recent European Court case law, the specific governance challenge of incorporating Bulgaria and Romania and the strategy for future enlargements to bring in the Western Balkans and Turkey. In part two, the examples of the environment and the agri-food acquis are explored, including the analysis of the transitional arrangements in practice. Overall, the diversity and complexity of the pre-accession and post-accession challenge of enlargement becomes apparent, as do key challenges for the evolution of the acquis communautaire in an enlarging Union at a time when Croatia is waiting to sign its own accession treaty. Readership: Those interested in EU external relations law, particularly EU enlargement practice and governance, including the preparations strategy (pre-accession), accession treaties and transitional arrangements, and how it is implemented in the agri-food and environment acquis.

Introduction PART I EVOLVING PRACTICE IN EUROPEAN UNION ENLARGEMENT Chapter 1: Eligible candidates and procedural steps to accession Chapter 2: The Copenhagen criteria: efforts required before and after accession Chapter 3: The pre-accession strategy: from Agenda 2000 to date Chapter 4: Accession Treaties: transitional arrangements and other means to ease the impact of enlargement Chapter 5: New flexibility mechanisms in the 2003 and 2005 Accession Treaties PART II CASE STUDIES ON EC ENVIRONMENT AND AGRI-FOOD LAW Chapter 6: EC environment law Chapter 7: EC agri-food law Conclusions