Evolving Practice In EU Enlargement With Case Studies In Agri-Food And Environment Law

Kirstyn Inglis qualified as a Scottish solicitor in 1990 and moved to Brussels to specialise in European law. Later, she shifted into academic research, defending her PhD thesis at Ghent University (2006). She is now Post-doc Research Fellow (FWO) there.

Those interested in EU external relations law, particularly EU enlargement practice and governance, including the preparations strategy (pre-accession), accession treaties and transitional arrangements, and how it is implemented in the agri-food and environment acquis.

“Inglis is one of a dedicated group of academic writers who has enhanced the understanding of the legal implications of accession – both for the Union and its Member States as well as the acceding countries – particularly surrounding the fifth and sixth enlargements to Central and Eastern Europe (and also Cyprus and Malta) in 2004 and 2007 respectively. The present volume encapsulates her profound professional and personal experiences of CEEC enlargements in the environment and agri-food (especially food safety) sectors.
In addressing and analyzing the evolution of transitional arrangements in accession treaties and their intimate interconnection with conditionality, Inglis fills a critical gap in the existing literature. The author impresses the reader with her ability to explain the details and complexity of the inter-relationship between, on the one hand, transitional arrangements whether formal or informal and, on the other, the successful (or otherwise) application of conditionality on the part of the European Union.”

Allan F. Tatham, CML Rev. 2011

Introduction

PART I EVOLVING PRACTICE IN EUROPEAN UNION ENLARGEMENT

Chapter 1: Eligible candidates and procedural steps to accession
Chapter 2: The Copenhagen criteria: efforts required before and after accession
Chapter 3: The pre-accession strategy: from Agenda 2000 to date
Chapter 4: Accession Treaties: transitional arrangements and other means to ease the impact of enlargement
Chapter 5: New flexibility mechanisms in the 2003 and 2005 Accession Treaties

PART II CASE STUDIES ON EC ENVIRONMENT AND AGRI-FOOD LAW

Chapter 6: EC environment law
Chapter 7: EC agri-food law

Conclusions