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European Citizens Initiative “STOP TTIP” Can Proceed Says General Court

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2017

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Reader in Law and Associate Dean (International), City Law School, City, University of London; Elaine.fahey.1@city.ac.uk.

References

1 Case T-754/14 Efler and Others v Commission ECLI:EU:T:2017:323. See <stop-ttip.org/the-eci-result-in-numbers> and <stop-ttip.org/sign>, accessed 18 August 2017.

2 Established after the EU-US Summit in 2011, followed by an Interim Report on 19 June, 2012. See Final Report High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth, 11 February 2013, available at <trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2013/february/tradoc_150519.pdf>.

3 Eg De Ville, F and Siles-Brugge, G, TTIP: The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (Polity, 2015)Google Scholar; Cremona, M, “Guest Editorial: Negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)” (2015) 52 CMLR 351 Google Scholar.

4 See <ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ceta/index_en.htm>, accessed 18 August 2017. See such descriptions in many press releases and EU official briefings on CETA: <trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1570>, accessed 18 August 2017) (eg EU Council president, or from EU Commissioner for Trade).

5 Fahey, E, “CETA and Global Governance: What Kind of Model Agreement is it in Law?” (2017) 2(1) European Papers, European Forum, Insight Google Scholar of 9 February 2017, 293-302; Petersmann, E-U, “Transformative Transatlantic Free Trade Agreements without Rights and Remedies of Citizens?” (2015) 18(3) Journal of International Economic Law 579 Google Scholar.

6 Such a proposal would not deploy any autonomous legal effect beyond the fact of the legal act at issue not being adopted.

7 Karatzia, A, “The European Citizens’ Initiative and the EU institutional balance: On realism and the possibilities of affecting EU lawmaking” (2017) 54(1) CMLR 177 Google Scholar; S Schill, “The Constitutional Frontiers of International Economic Law” EJIL Talk (7 March 2017) available at <www.ejiltalk.org/the-constitutional-frontiers-of-international-economic-law/>.

8 Karatzia, supra, note 7.

9 Van Bogdandy, A, “The European Lesson for International Democracy: The Significance of Articles 9-12 EU Treaty for International Organisations” (2012) 23(2) EJIL 315 Google Scholar; Mendes, J, “Participation and the role of law after Lisbon: A legal view on Article 11 TEU” (2011) 48(6) CMLR 1849 Google Scholar.

10 Case T-646/13 Bürgerausschuss für die Bürgerinitiative Minority SafePack [2017] ECLI:EU:T:2017:59.

11 Karatzia, supra, note 7.

12 See Fahey, E, “On the Benefits of the TTIP Negotiations for the EU Legal Order: Legal Perspectives” (2016) 43(4) LEIE 327 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

13 Fahey, supra, note 12.