Download This PaperThe Virtue of Cassis De Dijon 25 Years Later – It Is Not Dead, It Just Smells Funny
Purnhagen/Rott (eds.), Varieties of European Economic Law and Regulation, Dordrecht: Springer, 2014, Forthcoming 2014
Wageningen Working Papers in Law and Governance 2014/01
53 Pages Posted: 23 Jan 2014 Last revised: 21 Feb 2014
Date Written: January 22, 2014
Abstract
This piece specifies how and where the Cassis de Dijon case influenced EU internal market regulation. For a start, I will place the case into the more general context of internal market integration (1). I will then highlight the different concepts that have been developed from the Cassis de Dijon case such as e.g. the theory of the information paradigm, the confident consumer, the principle of mutual recognition, and the “new approach”. I will show how each of these concepts has developed in the course of internal market law (2). Finally, I will conclude that albeit that these principles have come under attack from various sources, the lessons drawn from Cassis de Dijon still remain the yardstick for the evaluation of internal market law today (3).
Keywords: Cassis de Dijon, internal market regulation, information paradigm, confident consumer
JEL Classification: K20, K32, K33
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