What is exactly meant by acquis communautaire?

Acquis communautaire is a French term referring to the cumulative body of European Community laws, comprising the EC’s objectives, substantive rules, policies and, in particular, the primary and secondary legislation and case law – all of which form part of the legal order of the European Union (EU).

How big is the acquis communautaire?

170,000 pages
Thus the true size of the active acquis communautaire is over 170,000 pages long or double the number of pages that is normally claimed by the EU Commission and other commentators. Of these 170,000 pages, over 100,000 have been produced in the last 10 years.

What is Union acquis?

The EU’s ‘acquis’ is the body of common rights and obligations that are binding on all EU countries, as EU Members. It is constantly evolving and comprises: international agreements concluded by the EU and those concluded by the EU countries between themselves in the field of the EU’s activities.

What does acquis mean in English?

n. the body of law accumulated by the European Union. Often shortened to: acquis. [C20: French, literally: acquired material of the Community]

What is the meaning of acquis?

The term is French: acquis meaning “that which has been acquired or obtained”, and communautaire meaning “of the community”.

What means gastronomical?

(ˌɡæstrəˈnɒmɪk ) or gastronomical. adjective. of or relating to food and cookery, esp the art of good eating.

What does acquest mean?

noun Law. property acquired other than by inheritance, as by purchase or gift.

Who introduced intergovernmentalism?

Andrew Moravcsik
Faced with this conundrum and even with a resurgent neo-functionalism, Andrew Moravcsik undertook to adapt intergovernmentalism to the new European reality of the 1990s. In his efforts to explain European Integration ‘from Messina to Maastricht’ (1998), he devised the concept of ‘liberal intergovernmentalism’.