Business Law - EC Internal Market Law for students of the MBA program of the Faculty of Economics and Management |
29.03.08 |
Autumn Semester 2007; Wednesday, 18.00 - 21.30, Marstaļu iela 28/30, Auditorium 43; interim examination at 21.11.2007, final examination at 30.01.2008 |
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Final note
In February 2009, after the end of the autumn semester 2007, this website has been finished. It will stay available for the purpose of deepening and repetition. With best wishes for your future studies and career, yours Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmitz
Note: Judgment of the European Court of Justice in a case concerning a Latvian Service provider in Sweden
On December 19, 2007, the European Court of Justice has decided in the case C-341/05, Laval, concerning the freedom to provide services of a Latvian company in Sweden. In this preliminary ruling, the Court has interpreted Art. 12 and 49 EC-Treaty and the Posting Directive.
This course concentrates on an important part of Business Law: EC Internal Market Law. It is a modified and simplified version of the course "EC Internal Market Law" at the Faculty of Law which has been adapted to the needs of the legal education of students of economics.
The European Union represents not only the institutional framework but as well the location for the substantive law of the European integration. The law of the European internal market forms the biggest part of that substantive law. This course deals with this subject, in particular with the economic fundamental freedoms of the citizens of the Union (free movement of goods, freedom of movement for workers, freedom of establishment, freedom to provide services, freedom of the movement of capital and of payments). These economic freedoms have a great impact on business in the European Union. The course will present the general theory and the specific features of the fundamental freedoms. It will introduce to the latest developments like the adoption of the controversial Services Directive in 2006. The course also deals with the approximation of laws in the internal market and the competition law of the European Union. As well, it presents an overview of the European Economic and Monetary Union.
The handling of practical cases normally is the task of legal experts. It is useful, however, to know some basics of it, in order to understand what the well-paid legal experts are doing (or should be doing). Therefore, the course will also contain a very short introduction to the techniques of case-solving in the field of EC Internal Market law. The case studies will deal with the economic fundamental freedoms.
Conditions: Open for students of all faculties. In order to get 4 credit points, participants are required to pass an interim examination (50 %) and a final examination (50 %).
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Contents (Details) |
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Diagram 1 (The fundamental freedoms - an overview) |
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Diagram 2 (Violation of a fundamental freedom) |
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Diagram 3 (The free movement of goods) |
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Diagram 4 (The freedom of of movement for workers) |
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Test 1 (Interim examination, 21/11/2007) |
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Diagram 5 (The freedom of establishment) |
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Diagram 6 (The freedom to provide services) |
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Diagram 7 (The free movement of capital) |
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Diagrm 8 (An Overview of the Economic and Monetary Union) |
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Case 1 (concerning the free movement of goods) |
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Test 2 (Final examination, 30/01/2008) |
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Contribution of
students: André Poddubny and others:
Relevant Cases
of the European Court of Justice |
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Transparency
films presented in
the lectures (®
just aids for illustration) |
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Additional
general materials on the Law of the European Union
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informations) |
Contents (summary/details)
Part I: Introduction
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§ 1 The substantive Law of the European Union |
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§ 2 The European Union as framework for the economic development in Europe |
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§ 3 The European unified economic area - an overview |
Part II: The Fundamental Freedoms
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§ 4 General theory |
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§ 5 The free movement of goods (art. 23 et seq., 90 et seq. EC Treaty) |
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§ 6 The freedom of movement for workers (art. 39 et seq. EC Treaty) |
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§ 7 The freedom of establishment (art. 43 et seq. EC Treaty) |
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§ 8 The freedom to provide services (art. 49 et seq. EC Treaty) |
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§ 9 The free movement of capital and payments (art. 56 et seq. EC Treaty) |
Part III: The Realization and Safeguard of the Internal Market
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§ 10 The approximation of laws in the internal market |
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§ 11 The competition law of the European Union |
Part IV: The Economic and Monetary Union (overview)
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§ 12 Economic and budgetary policy in the European Union |
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§ 13 The Monetary Union |
[A. Textbooks] [B. Commentaries] [C. Works of reference, handbooks] [D. Exercises in legal case-solving, learning materials] [E. Law reports, casebooks] [F. Compendiums of laws] [G. Journals]
I. Textbooks specialized on European internal market law
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Barnard, Catherine: The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms, 2nd edition 2007 |
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Davies, Gareth: European Union internal market law, 2nd edition 2003 |
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Dutheil de la Rochère, Jacqueline: Droit matériel de l'Union européenne, 3rd edition 2006 |
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Ehlers, Dirk (editor): Europäische Grundrechte und Grundfreiheiten, 2nd edition 2005 |
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Epiney, Astrid; Meyer, Annekathrin; Mosters, Robert: Europarecht, Teil 2: Die Grundfreiheiten des EG-Vertrages, 2004 |
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Hailbronner, Kay; Jochum, Gerhard: Europarecht II. Binnenmarkt und Grundfreiheiten, 2006 |
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Jones, Alison; Sufrin, Brenda: EC Competition Law. Text, Cases, and Materials, 2nd edition 2007 [coming soon] |
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Nagel, Bernhard: Das Wirtschaftsrecht der Europäischen Union. Eine Einführung, 4th edition 2003 |
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Van Bael & Bellis (editor): Competition Law of the European Community, 4th edition 2005 |
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Woods, Lorna: Free Movement of Goods and Services within the European Community, 2004 |
II. Textbooks on European law in general
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Alehno, Ivo; Buka, Arnis; Butkevičs, Jānis; Jarinovska, Kristīne; Škoba, Laine: Ievads Eiropas Savienības tiesībās (Tiesu prakse un komentāri), 2nd edition 2004 |
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Blūzma, Valdis; Buka, Arnis; Deksnis, Eduards Bruno; Jarinovska, Kristīne; Jundze, Inese; Jundzis, Tālavs; Levits, Egils: Eiropas tiesĪbas, 2. Auflage 2007 |
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Craig, Paul; Búrca, Gráinne de: EU Law. Text, Cases and Materials, 4th edition 2007 |
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Fairhurst, John; Vincenzi, Christopher: Law of the European Community, 6th edition 2007 |
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Folsom, Ralph H.: European Union Law in a Nutshell, 2005 |
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Gautron, Jean-Claude: Droit européen, 12th edition 2006 |
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Herdegen, Matthias: Europarecht, 9th edition 2007 |
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Oppermann, Thomas: Europarecht, 3rd edition 2005 |
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Steiner, Josephine; Woods, Lorna; Twigg-Flesner, Christian: Textbook on EC Law, 9th edition 2006 |
B. Commentaries (article-by-article presentation)
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Calliess, Christian; Ruffert, Matthias (editors): Kommentar des Vertrages über die Europäische Union und des Vertrages zur Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft - EUV/EGV -, 2nd edition 2002 |
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Dabbah, Maher M.: EC and UK Competition Law. Commentary, Cases and Materials, 2004 |
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Groeben, Hans von der; Schwarze, Jürgen (editors): Kommentar zum Vertrag über die Europäische Union und zur Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft, 6th edition volume 1 - 4, 2003 - 2004 |
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Smit, Hans; Herzog, Peter; Campbell, Christian; Zagel, Gudrun (editors): The Law of the European Union (loose-leaf edition), volume 1 und 2, 2005 |
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Streinz, Rudolf (editor): EUV/EGV. Vertrag über die Europäische Union und Vertrag zur Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft, 2003 |
C. Works of reference, encyclopaedias and handbooks (for scientific research)
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Dauses, Manred A. (editior): Handbuch des EU-Wirtschaftsrechts (loose-leaf edition), updated 2007 |
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Debard, Thierry; Le Baut-Ferrarèse, Bernadette; Nourissat, Cyril: Dictionnaire du droit de l'Union européenne, 2nd edition 2007 |
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Frenz, Walter: Handbuch Europarecht, volume 1: Europäische Grundfreiheiten, 2004; volume 2: Europäisches Kartellrecht, 2005; volume 3: Beihilfe- und Vergaberecht, 2006 |
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Jones, Christopher; Woude, Marc van der: EC Competition Law Handbook 2005/2006, 2005 |
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Ritter, Lennart; Braun, David W.: European Competition Law. A Practitioner's Guide, 3rd edition 2005 |
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Toth, A.G.: The Oxford Encyclopaedia of European Community Law, volume II: The Law of the Internal Market, 2005 |
D. Exercises in legal case-solving and learning materials (especially for law students)
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Epping, Volker; Lenz, Sebastian: Fallrepetitorium Europarecht. Fälle und Lösungen, 2005 |
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Fox, Eleanor M.: Cases and materials on the competition law of the European Union, 2002 |
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Schäfer, Peter: Studienbuch Europarecht. Das Wirtschaftsrecht der EG. Übersichten, Prüfungsschemata, Fallmethodik, 3rd edition 2006 |
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Weatherill, Stephen: Cases and Materials on EU Law, 7th edition 2005 |
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European Court of Justice [Eiropas Kopienu Tiesa] (editor): Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance, Part I: Court of Justice, Part II: Court of First Instance (official reports of the case-law of the ECJ and of the Court of First Instance) |
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European Court of Justice (editor): Case-law of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance (internet law reports in different languages at the website of the ECJ) |
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Emmert, Frank (editor): European Union Law. Cases, 2001 |
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Hummer, Waldemar; Vedder, Christoph (editors): Europarecht in Fällen, 4th edition 2005 |
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Kacsorowska, Alina (Herausgeber): Law of the European Union. 150 Leading Cases, 3. Auflage 2004 |
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Koenig, Christian; Pechstein, Matthias (editors): Entscheidungen des Europäischen Gerichtshofs. Studienauswahl, 3rd edition 2005 |
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Publications Office [Publikāciju birojs] (editor): EUR-Lex. The access to European Union law [Piekļluve Eiropas Savienības tiesību aktiem] (Online compendium in the different official languages of the EU. Here you can find almost all regulations and directives and the Official Journal of the EU. Look here for the founding treaties and the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (not in force). |
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European Commission [Eiropas Komisija] (editor): Activities of the European Union - Summaries of legislation: Internal Market (specialised online compendium of legislation concerning the European internal market) |
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Simmonds, K. R. (editor): Encyclopedia of European Community Law, volume 1 - 9 (loose-leaf edition), updated 2006 |
G. Important journals in the field of European law
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CMLRev: Common Market Law Review, since 1964 |
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ELJ: European Law Journal, since 1995 |
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ELRev: European Law Review, since 1975 |
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EuR: Europarecht, since 1965 |
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EuZW: Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht, since 1990 |
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FCE: Forum Constitutionis Europae, since 1998 (Internet-Zeitschrift) |
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JMWP: Jean Monnet Working Papers, since 1995 (Internet-Zeitschrift) |
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RMC: Revue du Marché commun et de l'Union européenne, since 1958 |
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WHI-Papers: since 1997 (Veröffentlichungsreihe zu Grundlagenfragen der europäischen Integration) |
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ZEuS: Zeitschrift für europarechtliche Studien, since 1998 |
For detailed references to articles in journals see the bibliographical data base Rave of the University of Düsseldorf and the project European Integration Current Contents of the NYU School of Law.
A. Links concerning the general subject of the course
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Homepage of the European Union: Main server "Europa" |
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Institutions: European Council, Council of the European Union, European Commission, European Parliament, European Court of Justice, European Economic and Social Committee, European Central Bank, Agencies of the European Union |
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Compendiums of Laws: EUR-Lex; Founding Treaties (not in Latvian; see also the Treaty of Lisbon and the failed Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe); Summaries of legislation concerning the individual activities of the Union |
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Case-law:
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Overview (in German); see the Compendium
Rechtsprechung zur
europäischen Integration (in German and English, with direkt links to the
inidvidual judgements);
Latvian
translations
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Websites concerning the individual activities of the Union: Overview (Main Server), Overview (Commission); The EU Single Market (Commission), Internal Market (Main Server), Competition (Commission), Competition (Main Server), Economic and Financial Affairs (Commission), Economic and Monetary Affairs (Main Server), Monetary policy (ECB) |
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Other official documents: see the extensive official document registers of the European Union |
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Practical informations: Your Europe (Commission, as well in Latvian) |
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See for more links my general homepage (in German); see the "Links zum Öffentlichen Recht" / "A. Europarecht" |
B. Links concerning special subjects
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concerning 1 I/II: detailed datas on the history of the European Union (Main Server) |
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concerning § 3 II: Informations on the Customs Union (Main Server/Commission); Legislation on the Customs Union: Common Customs Tariff (CCT) and Customs Codex (CC) [Caution: not bearable without a glass of wine or wodka! The lecturer denies any responsiblity for damages caused by reading these materials. Yes, European law can be that boring and bureaucratic!] |
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concerning § 3 III: The Internal Market Scoreboard of the Commission (indicates the state of development of the Internal Market) |
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concerning § 4 - § 9: Overview on important decisions of the ECJ concerning the fundamental freedoms (excerpt from: Schmitz, Rechtsprechung zur europäischen Integration, website at the university of Göttingen) |
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concerning § 4 I: ECJ, case 26/62, van Gend & Loos (direct applicability of fundamental freedoms) |
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concerning § 4 III: ECJ, case 60/00, Carpenter (indirect protection of fundamental rights via fundamental freedoms) |
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concerning § 4 III, § 5 II: ECJ, case C-265/95, French blockades (duties of protection) |
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concerning § 5 III: ECJ, joined cases 2 and 3/69, Diamandarbeiders (large concept of charges having equivalent effect to customs in art. 25 EC Treaty); ECJ, case 8/74, Dassonville (large concept of measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions on imports in art. 28 EC Treaty: includes indistinctly applicable restrictions [understood in a very broad sense]); ECJ, case 120/78, Cassis de Dijon (regulations on necessary properties of products as measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions on imports; inherent limits of the free movement of goods); ECJ, case 178/84, purity requirement ["Reinheitsgebot"] for beer ([no] mandatory requirements of consumer protection); ECJ, case 249/81, Buy Irish (support of advertising campaigns for domestic products as encroachment on the free movement of goods); ECJ, joined cases C-265, C-268/91, Keck (reduction of the Dassonville formula: only product-related, not sales-related rules as encroachements on the free movement of goods) |
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concerning § 6
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Annex VIII (rules concerning Latvia, also
in Latvian
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concerning § 6 II/IV:
secondary law on the free movement of workers (EUR-Lex, also
in Latvian
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concerning § 6 III: ECJ, case 36/74, Walrave and Koch (third-party effect of the freedeom of movement for workers); ECJ, case C-415/93, Bosman (restrictions as encroachments on the free movement of workers; third-party effect of the freedom of movement for workers in the field of professional football); ECJ, case C-190/98, Graf (no encroachment, if effect is too uncertain or indirect) |
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concerning § 7
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secondary law on the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide
services
(EUR-Lex, also
in Latvian
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concerning § 7 II/III: ECJ, case C-221/89, Factortame (large, specific concept of "establishment" in Community law"); ECJ, case C-55/94, Gebhard (restrictions as encroachments on the freedom of establishment) |
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concernin § 8 II-IV: new - case concerning a Latvian company: ECJ, case C-341/05, Laval (judgement from December 18, 2007) |
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concerning § 8
II/IV: The Services Directive (directive
2006/123/EC):
text of the directive (also
in Latvian
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concerning § 8 III: ECJ, case 33/74, van Binsbergen (restrictions as encroachments on the freedom to provide services) |
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concerning § 9 II/IV:
secondary law on the free movement of capital and payments (EUR-Lex),
in partiular the
Capital Directive (directive 88/361, also
in Latvian
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concerning § 11: Antitrust Enforcement Regulation (regulation 1/2003), State Aids Regulation (regulation 659/1999) |
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concerning § 12: the binding Broad economic policy guidelines 2006 - 2008 |
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concerning § 13: The European System of Central Banks (ESCB); materials of the ECB for students |
