The Boundaries of the EU Internal Market
Participation without Membership

A comprehensive analysis of the legal constraints to third countries' participation in the European Union's internal market.

Marja-Liisa Öberg (Author)

9781108499729, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 November 2020

304 pages
15 x 23 x 2 cm, 0.65 kg

'This topical, thoughtful, and well set out book analyses how the EU exports its internal market acquis and explores the constitutional and institutional constraints that get in the way.' Panos Koutrakos, Professor of EU Law and Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, City, University of London

The book examines the twofold 'boundaries' of the concept of the European Union's internal market – the geographical and the substantive – through the prism of expanding the internal market to third countries without enlarging the Union. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the conditions under which the internal market can effectively be extended to third countries by exporting EU acquis via international agreements without sacrificing its defining characteristics. Theoretical rather than empirical in approach, the book scrutinises and meticulously questions the required level of uniformity within flexible integration relating to the substantive scope of the internal market, the role of foundational principles in the European Union's market edifice, and the institutional framework necessary for granting third country actors full participation in the internal market while safeguarding the autonomy of the Union's legal order.

1. Introduction
2. Expanding the internal market: the phenomenon
Part I. Expanding the Internal Market: The Concept: 3. Internal market acquis: the concept
4. Internal market: unity
5. Internal market: the constitutional context
Part II. Expanding the Internal Market: Institutional Implications: 6. Autonomy of the EU legal order
7. Institutional framework: defining the core of the internal market
8. Institutional framework: safeguarding the core of the internal market
9. Conclusion: internal market – united in everything but membership?

Subject Areas: Constitutional & administrative law [LND], International economic & trade law [LBBM], International economics [KCL], European history [HBJD]