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Takeover of the European Union law into the legal orders of the European Free Trade Association Member States
Spousta, Ondřej ; Pítrová, Lenka (advisor) ; Král, Richard (referee)
Takeover of the European Union law into the legal orders of the European Free Trade Association Member States Abstract This thesis deals with the European Free Trade AssociationMember States' approaches to the European integration and examines primarily its legal aspects. The four states, consisting of Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, endeavour especially to participate in the EU's internal market, what they reach by two different tools. Meanwhile to the three first- mentionedstates were e.g.the so-called"Four Freedoms" of the single market extendedthrough the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA), which apart from these countries comprises of EU Member States, Switzerland took its own, specific path of sectoral bilateral agreements,which it concluded with the European Union, eventual also with EU countries. The thesis first deals with the history and functioning of the EFTA, which is common to all four states and then analyses at first the EEA law model and afterwards the Swiss bilateral agreements, evaluating both regimes in relation to each other. The thesis in both cases of integrationshows the scope of cooperation,its institutional frameworkandalsothe procedures, through which the EFTA States take over the EU law. It also reveals whether and in what ways the EFTA States can...
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