The Impact of the European Community's internal Market on the EFTA

The Impact of the European Community's internal Market on the EFTA
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1990-12-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781557751744

This paper provides an overview of the likely impact of the creation of the European Community (EC) internal market on the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) members. The focus is on the four freedoms and the institutional and legal changes required for increased economic cooperation between the EC and EFTA. Although not formally part of the negotiations, certain tax issues are also raised. The paper is in ten parts and includes a summary and glossary. The paper also discusses the institutional and legal changes that may prove necessary for greater EC-EFTA cooperation and the implications of the internal market for trade, production, and resource allocation in the EFTA countries. It examines issues related to trade in goods-mainly industrial goods-and transport services and considers issues of labor mobility and trade in financial services. Changes would also appear desirable in the areas of industrial and intellectual property rights-notably counterfeiting, trademarks, copyrights, and patents.

The EU Internal Market in Comparative Perspective

The EU Internal Market in Comparative Perspective
Author: Dominik Hanf
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789052014241

The European Union's internal market is the «hard core» of integration and by far its most precious asset. However a number of deep-seated factors have impeded the development of a systematic and wide-ranging academic research programme dedicated to the internal market. The purpose of this book is to begin to address this predicament with a tri-disciplinary analysis of the internal market, as scant opportunities for mutual understanding and learning across disciplines (law, economics and politics) currently exist. Internal market scholars from all three disciplines collaborated on this project, in which each chapter was read and critiqued by a scholar from a different discipline. The editors trust that this unique exercise reveals to many readers the enormous potential for in-depth and continuous analysis of the internal market and all that it entails. It also provides an accessible text for students and scholars from all three disciplines interested in the internal market.

The Boundaries of the EU Internal Market

The Boundaries of the EU Internal Market
Author: Marja-Liisa Öberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2020-11-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108603645

The book examines the twofold 'boundaries' of the concept of the European Union's internal market – the geographical and the substantive – through the prism of expanding the internal market to third countries without enlarging the Union. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the conditions under which the internal market can effectively be extended to third countries by exporting EU acquis via international agreements without sacrificing its defining characteristics. Theoretical rather than empirical in approach, the book scrutinises and meticulously questions the required level of uniformity within flexible integration relating to the substantive scope of the internal market, the role of foundational principles in the European Union's market edifice, and the institutional framework necessary for granting third country actors full participation in the internal market while safeguarding the autonomy of the Union's legal order.

The Impact of the EC's Internal Marketon Nonmember Countries

The Impact of the EC's Internal Marketon Nonmember Countries
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 133
Release: 1990-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451961006

This paper presents an overview of the impact of the EC’s Internal Market on the EFTA countries. It starts by examining the history of EC-EFTA relations; the institutional and legal changes that closer cooperation may require; and the general implications of the Internal Market Program for EFTA countries. This is followed by an exploration of specific issues relating to the goods trade, transport services, labor mobility, financial services and capital flows. Subsequent chapters focus on the potential impact of the EC’s proposed monetary unification on EFTA countries and the implications of the EC’s efforts in the area of tax harmonization.

The Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA)

The Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA)
Author: Thérèse Blanchet
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780198258841

The EEA Agreement extends the European Community internal market to the European Free Trade Area countries. This book gives lawyers and business people an in-depth but non-technical guide to the new EEA rules governing the free movement of goods, including product coverage and rules of origin, technical barriers to trade, intellectual property, product liability, public procurement, competition, and state aids.