Great Judgments of the European Court of Justice Book contents
- Great Judgments of the European Court of Justice
- Great Judgments of the European Court of Justice
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- European Court of Justice Cases
- Preamble and Selected Provisions of the Treaty of Rome
- Equivalence Table of Treaty Articles
- Introduction
- 1 Pork Products, 1961
- 2 Van Gend en Loos, 1963
- 3 Costa v. ENEL, 1964
- 4 Dairy Products, 1964
- 5 International Fruit, 1972
- 6 Van Duyn, 1974
- 7 Simmenthal, 1978
- 8 Sheep Meat, 1979
- 9 Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, 1970
- 10 States and Individuals in the Great Judgments of the European Court of Justice, 1961–1979
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - International Fruit, 1972
No Direct Effect for the GATT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2020
- Great Judgments of the European Court of Justice
- Great Judgments of the European Court of Justice
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- European Court of Justice Cases
- Preamble and Selected Provisions of the Treaty of Rome
- Equivalence Table of Treaty Articles
- Introduction
- 1 Pork Products, 1961
- 2 Van Gend en Loos, 1963
- 3 Costa v. ENEL, 1964
- 4 Dairy Products, 1964
- 5 International Fruit, 1972
- 6 Van Duyn, 1974
- 7 Simmenthal, 1978
- 8 Sheep Meat, 1979
- 9 Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, 1970
- 10 States and Individuals in the Great Judgments of the European Court of Justice, 1961–1979
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses the Court’s 1972 judgment, International Fruit, where the Court denied that provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) should be granted direct effect within the European legal order. This judgment is often understood as the first of many instances in which the Court denied the direct effect of GATT, and later World Trade Organization (WTO), obligations. This chapter uses the Court’s rejection of direct effect in International Fruit to offer an improved understanding of the Court’s declaration of direct effect in Van Gend en Loos, highlighting its connections to the prohibition of inter-state retaliation and unilateral safeguard mechanisms within the European legal order.
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- Great Judgments of the European Court of JusticeRethinking the Landmark Decisions of the Foundational Period, pp. 123 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019