Legal Implications of Brexit: Customs Union, Internal Market Acquis for Goods and Services, Consumer Protection Law, Public Procurement
This in-depth analysis addresses the implications of several scenarios of the UK withdrawing from the EU in relation to the EU Customs Union, the Internal Market law for Goods and Services, and on Consumer Protection law, identifying the main cross-cutting challenges that have to be addressed irrespective of the policy choices that will be made in due course. The analysis takes the fully-fledged EU membership as a point of departure and compares this baseline scenario to a membership of the UK in the European Economic Area (EEA), the application of tailor-made arrangements, as well as the fall-back scenario, in which the mutual relationship is governed by WTO law. Following an analysis of the EU legal framework defining the withdrawal of a Member State from the EU the study develops an analytical framework that allows for the identification of the legal impact of different Brexit scenarios on policy fields falling within the ambit of the IMCO Committee. In this context, the general impact of the EEA model, the tailor-made model and the WTO model on key pieces of the currently existing acquis communautaire in these policy areas are highlighted.
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External author
Fabian AMTENBRINK, Menelaos MARKAKIS and René REPASI Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam / European Research Centre for Economic and Financial Governance (EURO-CEFG) Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Publication type
Policy area
- Adoption of Legislation by EP and Council
- Consumer Protection
- Contract Law, Commercial Law and Company Law
- Democracy
- EU Law: Legal System and Acts
- Evaluation of Law and Policy in Practice
- Forward Planning
- Internal Market and Customs Union
- Private international law and judicial cooperation in civil matters
Keyword
- consumer protection
- consumption
- cooperation policy
- customs union
- economic analysis
- economic geography
- ECONOMICS
- EU Member State
- Europe
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- GEOGRAPHY
- impact study
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international trade
- international trade
- interparliamentary relations
- negotiation of an agreement (EU)
- parliament
- political geography
- POLITICS
- public contract
- single market
- tariff policy
- TRADE
- trade agreement
- trade cooperation
- trade policy
- Treaty on European Union
- United Kingdom
- withdrawal from the EU
- world organisations
- World Trade Organisation