2.European Community and European Law
What was done - Chapter II of Introduction to English for International Trade Law:
- group presentations: the EU - advantages, disadvantages
- pre-reading exercise: vocabulary for the texts in ex. 1:
- the European Union and the Europen Community: definitions, evolution of structures - ex. 1,2
- the legal sources of Community law - ex. 5
- differences between regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions - ex. 6
- the single market: definitions - ex. 7
After the seminar you should be able to
- define the European Union, the European Community and the single market
- name legal sources of Community law
- give examples of primary legislation and secondary legislation
- explain the main differences between regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions