| European internal market |
| Section A: The scope of the ‘four freedoms’ |
| · Introduction to the four freedoms |
| · Material scope: notion of economic activity |
| · Wholly internal situations |
| · Personal scope: public and private parties |
| · Personal scope: third country nationals |
| Section B: Free movement 1 - Equal treatment and non-discrimination |
| · Equal treatment and non-discrimination |
| · Distinctly applicable/directly discriminatory rules |
| · Indistinctly applicable/indirectly discriminatory rules |
| · Amplifying/dampening non-discrimination claims: citizenship and fiscal sovereignty issues |
| · Treaty-based limitations and exceptions to the market freedoms |
| Section C: Free movement 2 - Beyond discrimination |
| · Restrictions on internal market freedoms |
| · Mandatory requirements/overriding requirements of the general interest |
| · Proportionality |
| · Mandatory requirements and distinctly applicable/discriminatory measures |
| · Procedural requirements applied to justifications and exceptions |
| · The limits of a restrictions-based analysis |
| Section D: Regulation of the internal market |
| · Creating and regulating the internal market – history and overview |
| · Mutual recognition and co-ordination of national regulatory systems – harmonisation |
| · Legal basis and legislative procedural issues relating to internal market legislation |
| · Sectoral examples of harmonising legislation |
| · Regulatory structures and actors: comitology and regulatory agencies – private and self-regulation |
Sequence:
Section A, followed by Section B. |
Textbooks:
Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca, EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials 3rd ed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), ISBN: 0199249431 |
| Catherine Barnard and Joanne Scott (eds), The Law of the Single European Market: Unpacking the Premises (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2002), ISBN: 9781841133447 |
| Catherine Barnard, The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms 2nd ed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), ISBN 9780199298369 |
