Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW2093: EU Trade Law

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

Constitutional Foundations:

Competence in matters of common commercial policy

Distribution of competences

Express and implied powers

The life-cycle of international agreements

Mixed agreements

Duty of loyal cooperation

Policies:

Common commercial policy, including

- Development of the Common Commercial Policy: the internal market and external trade

- Common customs tariff

- Generalised trade preferences

- General import regulations

- Export policy etc.

EU development policy and trade

- Human rights conditionality

- Preferential terms of trade

Foreign policy and trade

- EU sanctions

- Impact on third states

- Impact on EU states (banking sector etc.)

External dimension of the internal energy market

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
28	122	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	22	11 x 2 hour lectures
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	6	3 x 2 hour seminars
Guided Independent Study	55	Individual reading and lecture preparation
Guided independent study	15	Seminar Preparation
Guided independent study	12	Formative Assessment Preparation
Guided Independent study	40	Summative Assessment Preparation

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Opinion (C-1/94) (WTO Agreement)

Opinion (C-2/15) of 16 May 2017 (EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA))