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Abstract:
This book explores the management of the internal market from a legal perspective. While the EU agenda is currently dominated by the processes of Treaty reform, this assessment of both market and constitutional governance evaluates the coherence or otherwise of the project at the very core of European integration. Confronted with a free market nearing completion, with a relatively formulaic application of internal market law, the book portrays how this is mirrored in a growing tendency to hand the market ‘back’ to the Member States and, increasingly, to authorities and bodies (both public and private) therein. We see too, however, an internal market framework that strains to cope with a series of challenges, both internal and external to the EU itself.
The approach of the contributors is twofold – on one hand they reflect thematically on questions of regulation which cut across the spectrum of the market and its freedoms. On the other hand they adopt more sector-specific lenses (including, for example, regulation of the media and the Internet) through which contemporary regulatory dynamics can be reconsidered.
Providing analysis of contemporary challenges facing the internal market, this book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students working in the field of EC law. It will also appeal to national and Community policy makers as it seeks to locate the constitutional and regulatory boundaries of the internal market sphere.
Contents:
1. The internal market: history and evolution - Laurence W. Gormley
2. Supply of and demand for internal market regulation: strategies, preferences and interpretation - Stephen Weatherill
3. Non-market values in internal market legislation - Bruno de Witte
4. Competition and the liberalised market - Erika Szyszczak
5. European Community media regulation in a converging environment - Rachael Craufurd Smith
6. The legal framework for financial services and the internet - Michel van Huffel
7. Monetary movements and the internal market - John Usher
8. Abstractness and concreteness in the preliminary reference procedure: implications for the division of powers and effective market regulation - Gareth Davies
9. The internal market and the individual - Robert Lane
10. The external dimension of the internal market and the individual - Panos Koutrakos
11. Internal market governance in a globalised marketplace: the case of air transport - Nick Bernard
12. The legality of the EC mutual recognition clause under WTO law - Lorand Bartels
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