4 - Internal Market

Summary

Chapter 4 scrutinises the notion of unity as an essential characteristic of the EU legal order and the internal market, and the aims of the multilateral agreements to achieve ‘homogeneity’ in the expanded internal market. The Chapter provides an examination of the notions of ‘unity’ and ‘homogeneity’ and the nature of the homogeneity provision in the acquis-exporting agreements. The Chapter seeks to establish the level of legislative commonality – as opposed to flexibility and differentiation – necessary in the extended internal market in order to be able to consider the third country market participants equal to their EU counterparts.