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I. Free Movement of Goods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2008

Karl Newman  and
Stephen Weatherill
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The last contribution on this topic, which was published in the July 1997 issue of the Quarterly,1 examined the Court's remarkable ruling in CIA Security International S.A. v. Signalson SA and Securitel SPRL,2 in which the Full Court decided that where a member State neglects to notify draft national technical regulations to the Commission in breach of the obligations set out in Directive 83/189,3 it may not rely on those regulations in subsequent proceedings before national courts. The Court's ruling attaches a meaningful penalty to State failure to abide by the obligations of notification stipulated by the Directive. It thereby induces compliance with requirements of transparency on which the Commission pins great faith in its “post-1992” strategy for the management of the internal market. The case law since CIA Security has generated a sufficient number of further illuminating rulings to justify a further tour of the area in this contribution.

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Current Developments: European Community Law
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International & Comparative Law Quarterly , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 217 - 223
Copyright
Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1999

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