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Accentuating the Positive: The ‘Selling Arrangement’, The First Decade, and Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2008

Abstract

The ‘selling arrangement’ is a judicial device which removes national law from thescrutiny of European Community law relating to the free movement of goods. National provisions affecting the marketing of products may fall for consideration as ‘selling arrangements’ where the treatment of the domestic and imported goods has been even handed. Measures relating to the substance of the goods remain subject to Community law rules on the free movement of goods. The prime example of the selling arrangement is the advertisement, but in the years since creation, other areas of national activity with respect to the free movement of goods have been enveloped inthe selling arrangement. Certain measures which have related to the conduct of business may also fall for similar treatment as selling arrangements. A recent development would appear tomean that the concept of the selling arrangement may apply where the obligation imposed by the national measure has beenidentified as being general, as opposed to specific in nature. Were this to be so, the selling arrangement would have the potential to break free of the traditional boundaries established for itunder Criminal Proceedings against Bernard Keck and Daniel Mithouard.1

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Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2005

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182 The measure related only to the internet advertisement of auction of goods from insolvent companies.Google Scholar

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223 By Art 3 Winkelsluitingswet. (Act on Shop Closing) 1976. Joined cases C-401–402/92 [1994] ECR I-2199 para 3.Google Scholar

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226 Without indicating opening hours and offered for sale a number of articles not linked to road travel in contravention of the national law.Google Scholar

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232 ‘National legislation such as that at issue pursues an aim which is justified under Community law, and that national rules restricting the opening of shops on Sundays reflect certain choices relating to particular national or regional socio-cultural characteristics. It is for the Member States to make those choices in compliance with the requirements of Community law’. Joined Cases C-418–21, 460–2, and 464/93, C9–11, 14–15, 23–4, and 332/94 Semeraro Casa Uno Srl and others v Sindaco del Comune di Erbusco and Others [1996] ECR I-2975 para 25.Google Scholar

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246 ‘It has no significant effect on the global volume of imports and it does not prevent a trader in another Member State from enjoying full access to the market’ Advocate General Jacobs (n 238) para 48.Google Scholar

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248 Case C-405/98 [2001] ECR I-1795 para 21. Likewise in Joined Cases C-34/95–36/95 Konsumentombudsmannen (KO) v De Agostini (Svenska) Forlag AB and TV-Shop I Sverige AB [1997] ECR I-3843 para 42, the Court held ‘it cannot be excluded that an outright ban, applying in one Member State, of a type of promotion for a product… might have a greater impact on products from other Member States’.Google Scholar

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