TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1 MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1 CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2 REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION European Union has 28 member states which are located in Europe. The present report includes post World War 2 treaties and main trade barriers of free movement of goods in EU and its member nations. MAIN BODY Free-movement of goods It comes first among four fundamental freedoms of EU and internal market. It involves various principles like mutual recognition, technical and physical barriers' elimination, etc. for completing internal market.1 Development of free-movement of goods Originally, free movement of goods was analysed as a part of custom union. Later, after World War 2, along with elimination of custom duties, remaining barriers were also eliminated with a view to create internal market as an area which allows free movement as a national market. In Cassis de Dijoncase, it was stated that if goods are produced as per law of one member state, why they couldn't be allowed in other member states2. Further, with reference to judgement of above case, principal was laid down that if goods are manufactured legally and as per the manufacturing rules of that country, state has to allow movement of those goods in all over the nation freely. Post World War 2 period, EU has faced some barriers m it was not having efficient resources for trade practices, there was a low standard of sanitary and phytosanitary products. Article 34 states that some selling arrangements are not covered within the scope of article, only if all relevant operations of national territory are being applied and also have effect in same manner3. 1Nugent, Neill.The government and politics of the European Union. Palgrave, 2017. 2De Wildt, Tristan E., et al. "A comprehensive approach to reviewing latent topics addressed by literature across multiple disciplines."Applied energy.228 (2018): 2111- 2128. 3'Freemovementofgoods'.(2018). <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/38/free-movement-of-goods> 1
Article 36 provides exceptions to general principles like allowing member states to have effect to quantitative restrictions, etc. must be analysed. Further, as per judgement of above case, member states can make restrictions over movement in order to protect the public health, fair competition in market, etc. Treaty provisions are made between EU and its member nations, through which law related to trade in EU are framed. Post World War 2, EU made some treaty provisions like making agreement with Canada to reduce 98% of trade tariffs to reduce trade barriers in EU. CONCLUSION From the above report it has been concluded that treaties and provisions of free movement of goods have become more liberal in post-World War 2 period. 2
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REFERENCES Books and Journals De Wildt, Tristan E., et al. "A comprehensive approach to reviewing latent topics addressed by literature across multiple disciplines."Applied energy.228 (2018): 2111-2128. Nugent, Neill.The government and politics of the European Union. Palgrave, 2017. Online 'Free movement of goods'.(2018). <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/38/free- movement-of-goods> 3