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II. External Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2008

Extract

Each time this writer has prepared a three-yearly update on the external relations of the Union, the Treaty framework has changed and the sense that Europe's leaders are being distracted from vital problems grows. The Constitution for Europe now on offer, the result of a mandate from the European Council at Laeken to effect a simplification of the treaties with a view to making them better understood without changing their meaning, would introduce new legal uncertainties into the framework for the conduct of external relations. Its entry into force, however, now appears unlikely.

Type
Current Developments European Union Law
Copyright
Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2005

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References

1 See Council Decision 2003/432/CFSP of 12 June 2003, OJ L 147/42, 14 June 2003.

2 Known as the EU SOFA, OJ 2003/C 321/02.

3 Joint Action 2004/551/CFSP of 12 July 2004, OJ L 245/17, 17 July 2004.

4 For comparative analysis of the two documents, see S Duke in (2004) 9 European Foreign Affairs Review 459. See also A Toje in (2005) 10 EFA Review 117.

5 Text in Council Doc 16336/04, Arts 3, 4, and 5.

6 Dromoland Castle 26 June 2004, Council Doc 1076/1/04 REV 1 (Presse 206).

7 The Observer, 1 May 2005. See also Iran's Nuclear Programme: A Collection of Documents. Jan 2005, Cm 6443; E Denza in (2005) 10 EFA Review 289.

8 See Commission Communication European Neighbourhood Policy Strategy Paper May 2004, COM(2004) 373.

9 See articles by R Aliboni; RA Del Sarto and T Schumacher; S Pardo and L Zemer on the ENP in EFA Review 10 (2005) 1–78; Copsey, N and Mayhew, A (eds) European Neighbourhood Policy and Ukraine (Sussex European Institute Brighton 2005), esp Cremona paper on ‘Partnership, Security and the Rule of Law’.Google Scholar

10 Cases C-466–469/98; C-471–472/98; C-475476/98.

11 See CMR Greaves, 2003 ICLQ 499; R Holdgaard (2003) 8 EFA Review 365; R Franklin (2005) 10 EFA Review 79.

12 Regulation 847/2004, OJ L 195/3, 2 June 2004. See House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union, 17th Report 2002–3 ‘Open Skies’ or Open Markets? and Supplementary Report, 36th Report, 2002–3, HL Papers 92 and 151.