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Intellectual Property And The External Power Of The European Community: The New Extension, A. David Demiray Jan 1994

Intellectual Property And The External Power Of The European Community: The New Extension, A. David Demiray

Michigan Journal of International Law

"[T]heory is somewhat lagging behind the facts and developing only in reaction to these facts," argues C.W.A. Timmermans regarding the European Community's (the EC or the Community) legal basis for extending its external power. The Community tends to extend its external competence before having a clear authority for doing so and only later provides a post hoc rationale. This observation suggests that the justification, not the propriety, of a newly acquired external competence is the question. Nowhere is this modus operandi better illustrated, or more sorely tested, than by the Community's growing involvement with and pursuit of international intellectual property …


A Practitioner's Guide To The Maastricht Treaty, Michael H. Abbey, Nicholas Bromfield Jan 1994

A Practitioner's Guide To The Maastricht Treaty, Michael H. Abbey, Nicholas Bromfield

Michigan Journal of International Law

Before undertaking a section by section summary of the Maastricht Treaty, this article will briefly discuss some of the highlights of the Treaty and the prospects for European Monetary Union.


Promises To Keep And Miles To Go: A Look At Europe Poised Between Two Treaties, Willajeanne F. Mclean Jan 1994

Promises To Keep And Miles To Go: A Look At Europe Poised Between Two Treaties, Willajeanne F. Mclean

Michigan Journal of International Law

Review of Singular Europe: Economy and Polity of the European Community After 1992 (William J. Adams ed.) and Decision-Making in the European Community: The Council Presidency and European Integration by Emil J. Kirchner


Ec Customs Classification Rules: Should Ice Cream Melt?, Edwin A. Vermulst Jan 1994

Ec Customs Classification Rules: Should Ice Cream Melt?, Edwin A. Vermulst

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article will demonstrate that these classification conflicts seldom have definitive solutions by examining European Community (EC or Community) classification rules in light of the international framework. This approach is justified because the EC's customs classification system, centered on the Combined Nomenclature (CN), is based on the most commonly used international system of classification, the Harmonized System (HS).