A Principle of Direct Effect: The Eurasian Economic Union’s Court pushes for more Integration

On 4 April 2017, the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union (the EAEU Court) decided in one of the most important cases of its history. It replied to a request of the Belarusian Ministry of Justice concerning the interpretation of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union 2014 (the EAEU Treaty) in the field of competition law. There, the Court formulated the ‘direct effect’ principle in order to coordinate between EAEU law and the domestic legal orders of the EAEU Member States.

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