Free movement of goods within the EU single market
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19-01-2018
The free movement of goods is one of the four fundamental freedoms of the EU – together with services, capital and people – and a cornerstone of the single market. The rationale of an open market throughout the EU has always been to assist economic growth and competitiveness and therefore promote employment and prosperity. Legislation on the single market for goods (based mainly on Article 28 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, TFEU) aims at ensuring that products placed on the EU market conform to high health, safety and environmental requirements. Once a product is sold legally in the EU, it should circulate without barriers to trade, with a minimum of administrative burden
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- administrative cooperation
- case law (EU)
- consumption
- Court of Justice (EU)
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EU institutions and European civil service
- EU Member State
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- exchange of information
- executive power and public service
- free movement of goods
- GEOGRAPHY
- goods and services
- harmonisation law
- information and information processing
- infringement procedure (EU)
- international trade
- justice
- LAW
- market approval
- marketing
- mutual recognition principle
- POLITICS
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- ruling
- single market
- sources and branches of the law
- technical rule
- technology and technical regulations
- TRADE
- Treaty on the Functioning of the EU