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Against the context of the evolution of the European Union's association agreements as transformative tools beyond the organizational boundaries, this article seeks to develop an account for understanding legislative and regulatory approximation mechanisms as the essential elements for the exercise of the Union's normative and regulatory impact. It therefore distinguishes between both concepts and provides a legal and political science explorations of what the legislative and regulatory approximations are, and what are their substantial rationale and procedural features in the context of ‘gradualist’ convergence approach enshrined in the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

Association Through Approximation: Procedural Law and Politics of Legislative and Regulatory Approximation in the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

European Interdisciplinary Studies Department, College of Europe (Natolin Campus) ul. Nowoursynowska 84, Warsaw 02-796, Poland

TalTech Journal of European Studies

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Against the context of the evolution of the European Union's association agreements as transformative tools beyond the organizational boundaries, this article...

Association Through Approximation: Procedural Law and Politics of Legislative and Regulatory Approximation in the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

Publié en ligne: 01 févr. 2015

Pages: 56 - 72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2015-0005

Mots clés
EU association agreements, legislative approximation, regulatory approximation, Ukraine

© 2015 Andriy Tyushka

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Association Through Approximation: Procedural Law and Politics of Legislative and Regulatory Approximation in the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

Publié en ligne: 01 févr. 2015

Pages: 56 - 72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2015-0005

Mots clésEU association agreements, legislative approximation, regulatory approximation, Ukraine

© 2015 Andriy Tyushka

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
EU association agreements, legislative approximation, regulatory approximation, Ukraine