| European
internal market |
| Section
A: The scope of the ‘four freedoms’ |
| ·
Introduction to the four freedoms
|
| ·
Material scope: notion of economic
activity |
| ·
Wholly internal situations |
| ·
Personal scope: public and private
parties |
| ·
Personal scope: third country
nationals |
| Section
B: Free movement 1 - Equal treatment and non-discrimination
|
| ·
Equal treatment and
non-discrimination |
| ·
Distinctly applicable/directly
discriminatory rules |
| ·
Indistinctly applicable/indirectly
discriminatory rules |
| ·
Amplifying/dampening
non-discrimination claims: citizenship and fiscal sovereignty
issues |
| ·
Treaty-based limitations and
exceptions to the market freedoms |
| Section
C: Free movement 2 - Beyond discrimination |
| ·
Restrictions on internal market
freedoms |
| ·
Mandatory requirements/overriding
requirements of the general interest |
| ·
Proportionality |
| ·
Mandatory requirements and
distinctly applicable/discriminatory measures |
| ·
Procedural requirements applied to
justifications and exceptions |
| ·
The limits of a restrictions-based
analysis |
| Section
D: Regulation of the internal market |
| ·
Creating and regulating the
internal market – history and overview |
| ·
Mutual recognition and
co-ordination of national regulatory systems – harmonisation
|
| ·
Legal basis and legislative
procedural issues relating to internal market legislation
|
| ·
Sectoral examples of harmonising
legislation |
| ·
Regulatory structures and actors:
comitology and regulatory agencies – private and self-regulation
|
Sequence:
Section A, followed by Section B. |
Textbooks:
Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca, EU Law: Text, Cases, and
Materials 3rd ed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002),
ISBN: 0199249431 |
| Catherine
Barnard and Joanne Scott (eds), The Law of the Single
European Market: Unpacking the Premises (Oxford: Hart
Publishing, 2002), ISBN: 9781841133447 |
| Catherine
Barnard, The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms
2nd ed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007),
ISBN 9780199298369 |
