Exemptions and Derogations From EU Law

Krunková, Alena (2026) Exemptions and Derogations From EU Law. In: EU Enlargement and Successful Integration: Is There a Way? Studies of the Central European Professors’ Network . Central European Academic Publishing, Miskolc-Budapest, pp. 129-163. ISBN 978-615-7027-65-7, 978-615-7027-66-4, 978-615-7027-67-1

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Abstract

This part of the book addresses special rules for acceding countries and subsequent transitional periods, or derogations given to individual EU Member States in the process of EU enlargement. The accession process itself is typical for each acceding country and is of a specific nature. At the same time, it is a complicated process, the consequences of which survive the accession itself and into the country’s functioning as a Member State. Although in the accession process states are expected to meet the same basic conditions within the framework of political and economic criteria (the so-called Copenhagen criteria), the EU takes into account the historical, cultural, economic and social peculiarities of each acceding state. From an historical point of view, accession processes may be perceived as occurring in certain stages or waves. After the initial slight enlargement, when one, two or three countries joined the then European Communities (1973 – Denmark, Ireland and the UK, 1981 – Greece, 1986 – Portugal and Spain), the enlargement that followed was one of the EU itself. Its first enlargement in 1995 (Finland, Austria and Sweden), even before the revision of the Amsterdam Treaty, was a harbinger of the so-called Major Enlargement of 2004 (Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia). The next wave of enlargement was the accession of Bulgaria and Romania (2007), the last accession country, in 2013, was Croatia. In this part of the book, the specific particulars of special conditions and transitional periods, especially after 1995, will be analysed. The countries from the so-called Major Enlargement of 2004 will carry the main focus, but at a basic level, other countries will also be analysed.

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