The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: A New Legal Instrument of Integration Without Membership?
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2015
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Petrov, Roman
Van der Loo, Guillaume
Van Elsuwege, Peter
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This article analyses the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (EU-Ukraine AA). It argues that this new legal framework, which has the objective to establish a unique form of political association and economic integration, is characterized by three specific features: comprehensiveness, complexity and conditionality. After a brief background of the EU-Ukraine relations, the following aspects are scrutinized: legal basis and objectives, institutional framework and mechanisms of enhanced conditionality, and legislative approximation. In addition, constitutional challenges for the effective implementation of the EU-Ukraine AA are discussed. Based upon a comparison
with other EU external agreements, it is demonstrated that the EU-Ukraine AA is an innovative legal instrument providing for a new type of integration without membership.
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integration, Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, European Union, Ukraine, Association Agreement, Угода про асоціацію, Україна, Європейський Союз, інтеграція, Поглиблена зона вільної торгівлі
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Petrov R. The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement : a New Legal Instrument of Integration Without Membership? / Roman Petrov, Guillaume Van der Loo, Peter Van Elsuwege // Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal. - 2015. - № 1. - P. 1-19.