Conflicts of international and national customs law with EU customs law: the example of the Republic of Lithuania

The article examines the functioning of the modern customs regulatory environment for the EU Member States, which is composed of three levels of sources: international legal instruments, EU primary and secondary legislation and national legislation of individual Member States. However, the practical...

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Main Author: Gediminas Valantiejus
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Language:English
Published: National University Odessa Law Academy 2020-04-01
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description The article examines the functioning of the modern customs regulatory environment for the EU Member States, which is composed of three levels of sources: international legal instruments, EU primary and secondary legislation and national legislation of individual Member States. However, the practical application of these provisions is related to conflicts between the sources of national and international law and even the different sources of international law itself. It should be noted that at the present time, individual states have not yet formed a unified approach on whether the WTO Agreements should have a direct effect in their national legal system, as most of the states are following the doctrine of dualism and deny this possibility, although the practices followed by the national courts of the Republic of Lithuania have shown the elements of a monistic approach to this problem. The increasing use of international preferential trade agreements and the prevalence of agreements, which establish the customs unions, could also be regarded as a challenge to the development of international economic law and international trade system. Moreover, analysis of the judicial practices of national courts (in the Republic of Lithuania) and the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union has confirmed that an explicit approach to the relationship existing between international, EU and national customs law has not yet materialized.
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spelling doaj.art-ea885fd2051f4b54bc1aa562644b15c82022-12-22T03:47:01ZengNational University Odessa Law AcademyLex Portus2524-101X2617-541X2020-04-012304110.26886/2524-101X.2.2020.2Conflicts of international and national customs law with EU customs law: the example of the Republic of LithuaniaGediminas Valantiejus0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9292-5948Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius, Lithuania)The article examines the functioning of the modern customs regulatory environment for the EU Member States, which is composed of three levels of sources: international legal instruments, EU primary and secondary legislation and national legislation of individual Member States. However, the practical application of these provisions is related to conflicts between the sources of national and international law and even the different sources of international law itself. It should be noted that at the present time, individual states have not yet formed a unified approach on whether the WTO Agreements should have a direct effect in their national legal system, as most of the states are following the doctrine of dualism and deny this possibility, although the practices followed by the national courts of the Republic of Lithuania have shown the elements of a monistic approach to this problem. The increasing use of international preferential trade agreements and the prevalence of agreements, which establish the customs unions, could also be regarded as a challenge to the development of international economic law and international trade system. Moreover, analysis of the judicial practices of national courts (in the Republic of Lithuania) and the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union has confirmed that an explicit approach to the relationship existing between international, EU and national customs law has not yet materialized.nternational tradeinternational customs lawworld trade organization agreementsunion customs coderepublic of lithuania
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Conflicts of international and national customs law with EU customs law: the example of the Republic of Lithuania
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international customs law
world trade organization agreements
union customs code
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title Conflicts of international and national customs law with EU customs law: the example of the Republic of Lithuania
title_full Conflicts of international and national customs law with EU customs law: the example of the Republic of Lithuania
title_fullStr Conflicts of international and national customs law with EU customs law: the example of the Republic of Lithuania
title_full_unstemmed Conflicts of international and national customs law with EU customs law: the example of the Republic of Lithuania
title_short Conflicts of international and national customs law with EU customs law: the example of the Republic of Lithuania
title_sort conflicts of international and national customs law with eu customs law the example of the republic of lithuania
topic nternational trade
international customs law
world trade organization agreements
union customs code
republic of lithuania
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