The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area : A New Legal Instrument for EU Integration Without Membership.

Intro -- The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area: A New Legal Instrument for EU Integration without Membership -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Karel De Gucht (European Commissioner for Trade (2010-2014)) -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The EU-Ukraine AA and the Union's Neighbourhood Relations: An Introduction -- 2 Research Objectives and (Academic) Relevance -- PART 1: Integration Agreements Concluded by the EU: Criteria and Overview -- 1: 'Integration Agreements' Concluded by the EU: A Useful but Tricky Legal Concept -- 2: The conditio sine qua non: The Obligation to Apply, Implement or Incorporate a Predetermined Selection of EU acquis -- 3: Criteria to Ensure the Uniform Interpretation and Application of the EU Law -- 3.1 Procedures to Amend or Update the Incorporated Acquis -- 3.2 Obligation for ECJ Case-law Conform Interpretation of the Incorporated Acquis -- 3.3 Judicial Mechanisms to Ensure a Uniform Interpretation and Application of the EU Law -- 4: Overview EU integration agreements -- PART 2: The EU and Ukraine: From Partnership and Cooperation towards Association -- 5: Background of the EU-Ukraine AA: The PCA and ENP -- 5.1 The EU-Ukraine Partnership and Cooperation Agreement -- 5.1.1 Political and Historical Background -- 5.1.2 Legal Basis, Objectives and "Essential Elements" of the PCA -- 5.1.3 Trade-related Provisions -- 5.1.4 Direct Effect of the PCA(s) -- 5.1.5 Institutional Framework -- 5.1.6 Concluding Remarks -- 5.2 The ENP and the EaP: The Policy Framework of the EU-Ukraine AA -- 5.2.1 Objectives and Instruments of the ENP -- 5.2.2 The EU-Ukraine Action Plan and Association Agenda: Instruments for EU Integration without Membership? -- 5.2.3 The ENP and Article 8 TEU.

6: Legal and Political Hurdles towards the Signing and Conclusion of the EU-Ukraine AA -- 6.1 The Long and Winding Road towards the Signing and Conclusion of the EU-Ukraine AA -- 6.1.1 The EU's Pre- and Post-Lisbon Institutional Set-up for Negotiating the EU-Ukraine AA -- 6.1.2 Negotiating the EU-Ukraine AA: A post-factum Analysis -- 6.1.3 Initialling the EU-Ukraine AA and Political Hurdles towards the 2013 Vilnius Eastern Partnership Summit -- 6.1.4 The 'Maidan Revolution' and the Two-phase Signature of the EU-Ukraine AA -- 6.1.5 Procedural Requirements for the Provisional Application and Ratification of the Mixed EU-Ukraine AA -- 6.2 The EU-Ukraine AA and the Triangular EU-Ukraine-Russia Relationship -- 6.2.1 Ukraine's Reluctant Economic Integration in the Post-Soviet Area -- 6.2.2 Russia's Trade-related Retaliation Measures and Political Pressure against the EaP AAs and DCFTAs -- 6.2.3 The EU-Ukraine-Russia 'Trilaterals': Dispelling Russia's Traderelated Concerns? -- 6.2.4 Reconciling Economic Integration Initiatives in the EU-Ukraine-Russia Triangular Relationship: Prospects, Opportunities and Challenges -- 7: A Legal Analysis of the EU-Ukraine AA -- 7.1 The Legal Basis of the EU-Ukraine AA -- 7.1.1 The Two-Phase and 'Split' Substantive Legal Bases of the EU-Ukraine AA -- 7.1.2 Quid Article 8 TEU? -- 7.1.3 The (Absence of a) Legal Basis for EU Integration Agreements -- 7.2 The 'Integration without Membership' Dimension of the Preamble and Objectives of the EU-Ukraine AA -- 7.3 The Comprehensive Character of the EU-Ukraine AA -- 7.3.1 The CFSP Dimension of the EU-Ukraine AA -- 7.3.2 The AFSJ Dimension of the EU-Ukraine AA: Provisions on the Treatment of Workers and Mobility of Persons and (The Preclusion of ) Their Direct Effect in the EU Legal Order -- 7.3.3 The Comprehensive Institutional Framework of the EU-Ukraine AA.

7.4 Enhanced Conditionality in the EU-Ukraine AA: Common Values Conditionality vs. Market Access Conditionality -- 7.4.1 Common Values Conditionality -- 7.4.2 Market Access Conditionality -- 7.5 Concluding Remarks -- PART 3: The EU-Ukraine DCFTA: A New Legal Instrument for Integration into the EU Internal Market? -- 8: The EU-Ukraine DCFTA: A "Deep" and "Comprehensive" FTA? -- 9: The 'Traditional' Scope of the DCFTA: Trade in Goods and Flanking Measures -- 9.1 The Scope and Pace of Elimination of Customs Duties -- 9.2 The EU's Autonomous Trade Preferences: Unilateral Implementation of the DCFTA Tariff Elimination -- 9.3 Export Duties, Trade Remedies, Rules of Origin and the Application of the DCFTA in Crimea -- 9.4 Comparison with the Moldova and Georgia DCFTAs -- 9.5 Concluding Remarks -- 10: The DCFTA: Market Access Conditionality and Mechanisms to Ensure the Uniform Interpretation and Application of the EU Acquis -- 10.1 Technical Barriers to Trade -- 10.2 Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures -- 10.3 Establishment, Trade in Services and Electronic Commerce -- 10.4 Public Procurement -- 10.5 DCFTA Chapters without Market Access Conditionality -- 10.5.1 Competition -- 10.5.2 Trade-related Energy -- 10.5.3 Intellectual Property, Movement of Capital, Customs and Trade Facilitation, Transparency and Trade and Sustainable Development -- 10.6 Economic and Sector Cooperation -- 11: Horizontal DCFTA Provisions and Mechanisms -- 11.1 The DCFTA DSM -- 11.2 DCFTA Dispute Settlement Procedures Regarding Legislative Approximation: Challenges for the Autonomy of the EU Legal Order? -- 11.3 Horizontal Provisions Related to Legislative Approximation -- 12: An Assessment of the EU-Ukraine DCFTA -- 12.1 A Legal Instrument for Gradual Integration in the EU Internal Market? -- 12.2 An Innovative EU Trade Agreement?.

12.3 The EU-Ukraine DCFTA Compared to the Moldova and Georgia DCFTAs -- 12.4 A (too) Complex and Costly Agreement? -- 12.5 A Blueprint for Other EU 'Neighbourhood' (Integration) Agreements? -- 12.5.1 The Remaining - Non-associated - EaP Countries -- 12.5.2 The 'Mediterranean' DCFTAs -- 12.5.3 The Micro-States and Switzerland -- 13: Sectoral Integration Agreements in the ENP: The Energy Community Treaty and the Common Aviation Area -- 13.1 The Energy Community Treaty -- 13.2 The (EU-Ukraine) Common Aviation Area Agreement -- 13.3 Sectoral Integration into the EU Internal Market: The Way Ahead? -- Conclusion -- 1 Final Conclusion -- 2 Outlook (1 July 2015) -- Bibliography -- Index.

In The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, Guillaume Van der Loo provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of this complex and controversial international agreement.

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