Community acquis

With acquis communautaire or Community acquis ( in adjektivierter form) is officially in German the whole of the current EU law referred to in the European Union.

This Community acquis referred to in English as Community acquis [k ( ə ) mjunəti aki ː ] and in French as the acquis communautaire [ aki kɔmynotɛr ]. In addition, also the short form of the EU acquis is occasionally used.

The acquis comprises all acts which are binding on the Member States of the EU. The acquis needs to be taken over by a State acceding to the EU, in its full extent. This applied, for example, at the same time the ten states that joined in the context of EU enlargement on 1 May 2004 the European Union. However, the accession negotiations between the EU and the candidate countries are generally agreed upon various exemptions and transitional arrangements in the frame.

The part of the three countries, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein under the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) adopted EU law is called the EEA acquis.

Importance

" The acquis is clear after accession practice since 1973, not at the disposal of the negotiations ". The scope is not to be underestimated.

Scope

Among the acts of the acquis include:

  • Primary law, ie the EU Treaty and the FEU Treaty,
  • Secondary legislation, ie regulations, directives and decisions of the EU ( and its predecessor organizations, the European Communities organs, and the acts of the common foreign and security policy and cooperation in justice and home affairs, which took place outside the EC framework )
  • The decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union,
  • Resolutions and declarations of the EU institutions,
  • Concluded by the EU with other states or confederations international treaties and agreements.

Expenditure and scientific systematization

Since the acquis communautaire is composed of the various types of legal sources, there was initially no own complete edition. As part of the 2004 Dutch Presidency of the initiated and designed by Rem Koolhaas exhibition The Image of Europe has prepared a 31- volume complete edition of the acquis with about 85,000 pages. Online, the EU legislation on the EUR-Lex website available, which is operated by the Publications Office of the European Union.

The establishment of the so-called acquis group led by Hans Schulte- Nölke of the University of Bielefeld took place in 2002 due to pulses of important EU institutions, including the European Parliament's resolution on the approximation of the civil and commercial law, the conclusions of the Laeken European Council and Tampere and the Commission Communication on European Contract Law. The objective is to create a network of researchers from the EU Member States and the candidate countries for penetration and systematization of existing EU legislation. The numerous members are listed on the homepage of the Acquis Group.

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