The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and deep and comprehensive free trade area : a new legal instrument for EU integration without membership / by Guillaume Van der Loo.
2016
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Title
The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and deep and comprehensive free trade area : a new legal instrument for EU integration without membership / by Guillaume Van der Loo.
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2016]
Call Number
KJE5112.U38 V36 2016
ISBN
9789004298644 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9004298649 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9789004298651 (e-book)
9004298649 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9789004298651 (e-book)
Description
xvii, 416 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)928614981
Note
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Ghent University, 2014).
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-411) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Van der Loo, Guillaume. EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and deep and comprehensive free trade area. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2016 9789004298651 (DLC) 2015045359
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Karel De Gucht
ix
Acknowledgements
xii
List of Tables
xiv
List of Abbreviations
xv
Introduction
1
1.
EU-Ukraine AA and the Union's Neighbourhood Relations: An Introduction
4
2.
Research Objectives and (Academic) Relevance
10
pt. 1
Integration Agreements Concluded by the EU: Criteria and Overview
1.
`Integration Agreements' Concluded by the EU: A Useful but Tricky Legal Concept
23
2.
conditio sine qua non: The Obligation to Apply, Implement or Incorporate a Predetermined Selection of EU acquis
28
3.
Criteria to Ensure the Uniform Interpretation and Application of the EU Law
35
3.1.
Procedures to Amend or Update the Incorporated Acquis
39
3.2.
Obligation for ECJ Case-law Conform Interpretation of the Incorporated Acquis
42
3.3.
Judicial Mechanisms to Ensure a Uniform Interpretation and Application of the EU Law
44
4.
Overview EU integration agreements
49
pt. 2
EU and Ukraine: From Partnership and Cooperation towards Association
5.
Background of the EU-Ukraine AA: The PCA and ENP
61
5.1.
EU-Ukraine Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
62
5.1.1.
Political and Historical Background
62
5.1.2.
Legal Basis, Objectives and "Essential Elements" of the PCA
67
5.1.3.
Trade-related Provisions
70
5.1.4.
Direct Effect of the PCA(s)
76
5.1.5.
Institutional Framework
78
5.1.6.
Concluding Remarks
79
5.2.
ENP and the EaP: The Policy Framework of the EU-Ukraine AA
82
5.2.1.
Objectives and Instruments of the ENP
82
5.2.2.
EU-Ukraine Action Plan and Association Agenda: Instruments for EU Integration without Membership?
88
5.2.3.
ENP and Article 8 TEU
95
6.
Legal and Political Hurdles towards the Signing and Conclusion of the EU-Ukraine AA
100
6.1.
Long and Winding Road towards the Signing and Conclusion of the EU-Ukraine AA
100
6.1.1.
EU's Pre- and Post-Lisbon Institutional Set-up for Negotiating the EU- Ukraine AA
101
6.1.2.
Negotiating the EU-Ukraine AA: A post-factum Analysis
104
6.1.3.
Initialling the EU-Ukraine AA and Political Hurdles towards the 2013 Vilnius Eastern Partnership Summit
110
6.1.4.
`Maidan Revolution' and the Two-phase Signature of the EU-Ukraine AA
115
6.1.5.
Procedural Requirements for the Provisional Application and Ratification of the Mixed EU-Ukraine AA
120
6.2.
EU-Ukraine AA and the Triangular EU-Ukraine-Russia Relationship
131
6.2.1.
Ukraine's Reluctant Economic Integration in the Post-Soviet Area
131
6.2.2.
Russia's Trade-related Retaliation Measures and Political Pressure against the EaP AAs and DCFTAs
135
6.2.3.
EU-Ukraine-Russia `Trilaterals': Dispelling Russia's Trade-related Concerns?
141
6.2.4.
Reconciling Economic Integration Initiatives in the EU-Ukraine-Russia Triangular Relationship: Prospects, Opportunities and Challenges
153
7.
Legal Analysis of the EU-Ukraine AA
165
7.1.
Legal Basis of the EU-Ukraine AA
165
7.1.1.
Two-Phase and `Split' Substantive Legal Bases of the EU-Ukraine AA
166
7.1.2.
Quid Article 8 TEU?
172
7.1.3.
(Absence of a) Legal Basis for EU Integration Agreements
175
7.2.
`Integration without Membership' Dimension of the Preamble and Objectives of the EU-Ukraine AA
175
7.3.
Comprehensive Character of the EU-Ukraine AA
190
7.3.1.
CFSP Dimension of the EU-Ukraine AA
191
7.3.2.
AFSJ Dimension of the EU- Ukraine AA: Provisions on the Treatment of Workers and Mobility of Persons and (The Preclusion of) Their Direct Effect in the EU Legal Order
193
7.3.3.
Comprehensive Institutional Framework of the EU-Ukraine AA
204
7.4.
Enhanced Conditionality in the EU-Ukraine AA: Common Values Conditionality vs. Market Access Conditionality
206
7.4.1.
Common Values Conditionality
208
7.4.2.
Market Access Conditionality
210
7.5.
Concluding Remarks
213
pt. 3
EU-Ukraine DCFTA: A New Legal Instrument for Integration into the EU Internal Market?
8.
EU-Ukraine DCFTA: A "Deep" and "Comprehensive" FTA?
217
9.
`Traditional' Scope of the DCFTA: Trade in Goods and Flanking Measures
226
9.1.
Scope and Pace of Elimination of Customs Duties
226
9.2.
EU's Autonomous Trade Preferences: Unilateral Implementation of the DCFTA Tariff Elimination
233
9.3.
Export Duties, Trade Remedies, Rules of Origin and the Application of the DCFTA in Crimea
237
9.4.
Comparison with the Moldova and Georgia DCFTAs
243
9.5.
Concluding Remarks
246
10.
DCFTA: Market Access Conditionality and Mechanisms to Ensure the Uniform Interpretation and Application of the EU Acquis
247
10.1.
Technical Barriers to Trade
248
10.2.
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
255
10.3.
Establishment, Trade in Services and Electronic Commerce
259
10.4.
Public Procurement
270
10.5.
DCFTA Chapters without Market Access Conditionality
276
10.5.1.
Competition
276
10.5.2.
Trade-related Energy
280
10.5.3.
Intellectual Property, Movement of Capital, Customs and Trade Facilitation, Transparency and Trade and Sustainable Development
284
10.6.
Economic and Sector Cooperation
289
11.
Horizontal DCFTA Provisions and Mechanisms
292
11.1.
DCFTA DSM
292
11.2.
DCFTA Dispute Settlement Procedures Regarding Legislative Approximation: Challenges for the Autonomy of the EU Legal Order?
296
11.3.
Horizontal Provisions Related to Legislative Approximation
301
12.
Assessment of the EU-Ukraine DCFTA
304
12.1.
Legal Instrument for Gradual Integration in the EU Internal Market?
304
12.2.
Innovative EU Trade Agreement?
311
12.3.
EU-Ukraine DCFTA Compared to the Moldova and Georgia DCFTAs
313
12.4.
(too) Complex and Costly Agreement?
319
12.5.
Blueprint for Other EU `Neighbourhood' (Integration) Agreements?
329
12.5.1.
Remaining -- Non-associated -- EaP Countries
330
12.5.2.
`Mediterranean' DCFTAs
333
12.5.3.
Micro-States and Switzerland
337
13.
Sectoral Integration Agreements in the ENP: The Energy Community Treaty and the Common Aviation Area
342
13.1.
Energy Community Treaty
343
13.2.
(EU-Ukraine) Common Aviation Area Agreement
349
13.3.
Sectoral Integration into the EU Internal Market: The Way Ahead?
356
Conclusion
358
1.
Final Conclusion
358
2.
Outlook (1 July 2015)
364
Bibliography
369
Index
412