Overview

In recent years, the EU has negotiated a number of so-called 'new generation' Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with a significant number of emerging and industrialized partners, such as Canada, Singapore, Japan, Vietnam and others. This timely book gives an overview of the main constitutional issues the EU faces in negotiating, concluding and implementing these FTAs. Featuring contributions by international specialists on EU external action, this book demonstrates why these FTAs have become challenging for the EU, as well as analysing how the EU has dealt with its institutional constraints in order to remain a major international trade actor. Chapters first examine questions around EU competences and democratic issues raised by these agreements, before dealing with their implementation and enforcement, approaching these topics specifically from an EU law perspective. Drawing on a broader research project conducted by the well-regarded LAwTTIP network, this invaluable book addresses contemporary debates and future challenges for EU institutions and Member States. Scholars and advanced students of international economic relations and international and European economic law, particularly those with an interest in EU external action, will find this book essential reading. It will also prove useful to those working in EU institutions and WTO administration. Contributors include: J. Auvret-Finck, I. Bosse-Platière, F. Casolari, E. Castellarin, F. Castillo De La Torre, M. Chamon, L.-M. Chauvel, A. de Nanteuil, J.F. Delile, M. Gatti, E. Neframi, N. Neuwahl, C. Rapoport, G. Sangiuolo, A. Suse, C. Tovo, W. Weiss, J. Wouters

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Author:   Isabelle Bosse-Platière ,  Cécile Rapoport
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781788974790

ISBN 10:   1788974794
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   02 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword Lucia Serena Rossi Preface 1. Negotiating and implementing EU free trade agreements in an uncertain environment 1 Isabelle Bosse-Platière and Cécile Rapoport PART I THE CONCLUSION OF EU FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS 2. The Opinion on the free trade agreement with Singapore and its aftermath: some personal reflections 23 Fernando Castillo de la Torre 3. Mixity in the EU’s post-Lisbon free trade agreements 39 Merijn Chamon 4. Autonomy and EU competences in the context of free trade and investment agreements 58 Eleftheria Neframi and Mauro Gatti 5. Like a bridge over troubled water: the 2/15 Opinion through the lens of EU loyalty 85 Federico Casolari 6. EU law and diplomacy regarding negotiations during Brexit and in the transition period: the case of UK/North America trade 104 Nanette Neuwahl vi The conclusion and implementation of EU free trade agreements 7. The role of national parliaments in the negotiation and conclusion of EU free trade agreements 125 Carlo Tovo 8. The European Parliament and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership 143 Josiane Auvret-Finck 9. The role of the European Citizens’ Initiative in the negotiation and implementation of FTAs 159 Louis-Marie Chauvel PART II THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EU FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS 10. The provisional application of the EU’s mixed trade and investment agreements 176 Andrei Suse and Jan Wouters 11. The joint committees established by free trade agreements and their impact on EU law 203 Emanuel Castellarin 12. Joint organs in EU free trade agreements as a threat to democracy 222 Wolfgang Weiß 13. The internationalization of the judicial control of EU free trade agreements: when better is the enemy of good 240 Jean Félix Delile 14. Settlement of disputes in new EU free trade agreements: ‘democratizing’ international adjudication? 255 Arnaud de Nanteuil 15. An international court system for a transformative Europe? 271 Giorgia Sangiuolo Index 289

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`This book could not come at a more appropriate time. New trade agreements between the EU and major trading partners around the world are giving rise to important questions about trade policy and the relationship between EU and international law. Opinions of the EU Court of Justice are proving controversial, and legal difficulties surround attempts by the UK to contemplate its own trade deals. This book's penetrating and well argued discussions of these issues by European experts could not be more topical or more relevant.' -- Sir Francis Jacobs, King's College London, UK `This publication, edited by Professor Isabelle Bosse-Platiere and Professor Cecile Rapoport, is the first of a series of three volumes being prepared within the LawTTIP Jean Monnet Network of the University of Bologna, King's College, London and the University of Rennes I. It could not come at a more timely moment. In recent years, and notwithstanding the suspension of the negotiations on the bilateral trade and investment agreement between the EU and the US, a particularly complex labyrinth of bilateral Free Trade Agreements has been established with a variety of important partners of the EU in the world. While this unprecedented development, no doubt, is a demonstration of the dynamic character of the EU's external trade policy, it also gives rise to important constitutional and even existential questions. For the first time, a comprehensive legal analysis of this recent practice is now being made available, and every practitioner and scholar in EU external relations will benefit enormously from the immense in-depth research which has been undertaken.' -- Marc Maresceau, Ghent University, Belgium

`This publication, edited by Professor Isabelle Bosse-Platiere and Professor Cecile Rapoport, is the first of a series of three volumes being prepared within the LawTTIP Jean Monnet Network of the University of Bologna, King's College, London and the University of Rennes I. It could not come at a more timely moment. In recent years, and notwithstanding the suspension of the negotiations on the bilateral trade and investment agreement between the EU and the US, a particularly complex labyrinth of bilateral Free Trade Agreements has been established with a variety of important partners of the EU in the world. While this unprecedented development, no doubt, is a demonstration of the dynamic character of the EU's external trade policy, it also gives rise to important constitutional and even existential questions. For the first time, a comprehensive legal analysis of this recent practice is now being made available, and every practitioner and scholar in EU external relations will benefit enormously from the immense in-depth research which has been undertaken.' -- Marc Maresceau, Ghent University, Belgium

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Edited by Isabelle Bosse-Platière and Cécile Rapoport, University of Rennes 1, France

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