A Brief And Practical Guide To Eu Law

A Brief and Practical Guide to EU Law Third Edition David Medhurst Barrister, Temple b Blackwell Science A Brief and Practical Guide to EU Law Also by David Medhurst EU Public Procurement Law 0-632-03813-6 A Brief and Practical Guide to EU Law Third Edition David Medhurst Barrister, Temple b Blackwell Science # David Medhurst 1990, 1994, 2001 Blackwell Science Ltd Editorial Offices: Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0EL 25 John Street, London WC1N 2BS 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh EH3 6AJ 350 Main Street, Malden MA 02148 5018, USA 54 University Street, Carlton Victoria 3053, Australia 10, rue Casimir Delavigne 75006 Paris, France Other Editorial Offices: Blackwell Wissenschafts-Verlag GmbH KurfuÈrstendamm 57 10707 Berlin, Germany Blackwell Science KK MG Kodenmacho Building 7±10 Kodenmacho Nihombashi Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104, Japan Iowa State University Press A Blackwell Science Company 2121 S. State Avenue Ames, Iowa 50014-8300, USA The right of the Author to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First edition published 1990 Second edition published 1994 (1st & 2nd editions published under the title A Brief and Practical Guide to EC Law) Third edition (A Brief and Practical Guide to EU Law) published 2001 Set in 10.5/12.5 pt Palatino by DP Photosetting, Aylesbury, Bucks Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books, Bodmin, Cornwall The Blackwell Science logo is a trade mark of Blackwell Science Ltd, registered at the United Kingdom Trade Marks Registry DISTRIBUTORS Marston Book Services Ltd PO Box 269 Abingdon Oxon OX14 4YN (Orders: Tel: 01235 465500 Fax: 01235 465555) USA Blackwell Science, Inc. Commerce Place 350 Main Street Malden, MA 02148 5018 (Orders: Tel: 800 759 6102 781 388 8250 Fax: 781 388 8255) Canada Login Brothers Book Company 324 Saulteaux Crescent Winnipeg, Manitoba R3J 3T2 (Orders: Tel: 204 837-2987 Fax: 204 837-3116) Australia Blackwell Science Pty Ltd 54 University Street Carlton, Victoria 3053 (Orders: Tel: 03 9347 0300 Fax: 03 9347 5001) A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library ISBN 0-632-05184-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Medhurst, David. A brief and practical guide to EU law/David Medhurst.Ð3rd ed. p. cm. Rev. ed. of: A brief and practical guide to EC law. 2nd ed. c1994. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-632-05184-1 1. LawÐEuropean Union countries. I. Medhurst, David. Brief and practical guide to EC law. II. Title. KJE949 .M43 2001 341.242'2Ðdc21 00-052931 For further information on Blackwell Science, visit our website: www.blackwell-science.com CONTENTS Preface Alphabetical table of cases Numerical table of EC cases Table of EC treaties Table of EC conventions Table of EC directives Table of EC regulations Table of EC Commission decisions Alphabetical table of UK statutes Chronological table of UK statutes Alphabetical table of UK statutory instruments Chronological table of UK statutory instruments Table of EC court rules and practice notes Table of English court rules Table of EC Commission notices Abbreviations 1 The 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 treaties Introduction The Union The ECSC Treaty ± the Treaty of Paris The EC Treaty ± the Treaty of Rome The Euratom Treaty The Merger Treaty and the Convention on Common Institutions 1.7 The First Accession Treaty 1.8 The Second Accession Treaty 1.9 The Third Accession Treaty 1.10 The Single European Act 1.11