Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
Abstract
This essay looks at the virtues and costs of the EC requirement that the CEECs national laws "approximate" EC law. It looks at the significance of approximation both in the specific European context and in the context of the dialogue on harmonization and convergence of the law of trading partners of the world. In this essay I describe the Europe Agreements and the CEECs obligations thereunder to "approximate" EC law. I then briefly describe the competition laws of the four nations directly to the east of Germany and Austria, all thought to be serious candidates for admission to the EU soon after the turn of the century-Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic (hereafter called the Visegrad countries, so named after a summit conference in that Hungarian city). I then consider how closely the competition laws of these nations have converged with the EC competition laws. Next, I discuss the wisdom of forced convergence, and finally I comment on the benefits conferred by EC oversight and pressure for competition policy.
First Page
351
Volume
23
Publication Date
1997
Recommended Citation
Fox, Eleanor M., "The Central European Nations and the EU Waiting Room–Why Must the Central European Nations Adopt the Competition Law of the European Union?" (1997). Faculty Articles. 398.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/398
