What Happened to the Revolution? One Decade with Trailers and MEQRs

Staffan Ingmanson, Ruth Mannelqvist and Carin Ulander-Wänman eds., Festskrift till Örjan Edström (Volume in Honor of Örjan Edström), Umeå University, Umeå 2019

19 Pages Posted: 23 Jun 2019

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Mattias Derlén

Department of Law, Umeå University

Johan Lindholm

Umeå University

Date Written: 2019

Abstract

In 2009 the CJEU delivered its judgment in the so-called Trailers case, offering a new perspective on the enigmatic ban on measures having an equivalent effect to a quantitative restrictions (MEQRs). Trailers was a positive, even necessary, development in an area fraught with complications but it left many questions as to the future direction of the CJEU. One decade on, and after several notable judgments, we are now in a position to return to those questions. This contribution explores the impact of Trailers and the relevance today of seminal MEQR decisions like Dassonville, Keck and Cassis de Dijon.

Keywords: free movements of goods, MEQRs, Court of Justice of the European Union, internal market, EU law

JEL Classification: K00

Suggested Citation

Derlén, Mattias and Lindholm, Johan, What Happened to the Revolution? One Decade with Trailers and MEQRs (2019). Staffan Ingmanson, Ruth Mannelqvist and Carin Ulander-Wänman eds., Festskrift till Örjan Edström (Volume in Honor of Örjan Edström), Umeå University, Umeå 2019, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405465 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3405465

Mattias Derlén

Department of Law, Umeå University ( email )

Samhallsvetarhuset, Plan 2
Umea University
Umeå, SE 901 87
Sweden

Johan Lindholm (Contact Author)

Umeå University ( email )

Umeå University
Department of Law
Umeå, Umeå 901 87
Sweden
+46907865603 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://https://www.umu.se/en/staff/johan-lindholm/

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