Free Movement of Goods: Non-Fiscal Barriers to Trade
Description
Undergraduate EU Law (Fiscal and Non-Fiscal Barriers) Mind Map on Free Movement of Goods: Non-Fiscal Barriers to Trade, created by Laura Phillips on 19/05/2014.
Free Movement of Goods: Non-Fiscal Barriers to Trade
CONCLUSIONS
ARTICLE 34 NOW - FROM BARNARD, FOUR FREEDOMS
PRODUCT USE RULES
TFEU PROVISIONS
INTRODUCTION
Possible impediments to free trade
1. Customs charges
applied openly or
surreptitiously -
making imports less
competitive on price
2. Discriminatory national taxation
systems - both for directly competing and
substitutable goods - which protects
domestic products
3. Different national rules
regulating products and how and
when they can be sold -
non-financial (non-fiscal) barriers
to trade
Key questions
1. In the absence of harmonisation, to what extent may
MS insist on compliance with their national standards? i.e.
to what extent are MS prevented from exercising national
regulatory choices by the demands of the internal market?
2. Whether the legal commitment to free trade entails a regime directed