Evolving practice in EU enlargement : with case studies in agri-food and environment law / / by Kirstyn Inglis.

• Superior document: Studies in EU external relations, v. 4
• Author: Inglis, Kirstyn.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in EU external relations ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Eligible candidates and procedural steps to accession -- The Copenhagen criteria : efforts required before and after accession -- Instruments of the pre-accession strategy : from Agenda 2000 to date -- Accession treaties : transitional arrangements and other means to ease the impact of enlargement -- New flexibility mechanisms in the fifth and sixth accession treaties -- EU environment law -- EU agri-food law.