International and Comparative Law Quarterly

Table of Contents - April 2012 - Volume 61, Issue 02  

Current Developments: European Union Law

FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS

Stephen Weatherilla1

a1 Jacques Delors Professor of European Law, Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford. Email: stephen.weatherill@law.ox.ac.uk

The end of 2012 will herald the twentieth anniversary of ‘deadline 1992’, the projected date for the completion of the EU's internal market. Since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 references to ‘1992’ have been deleted from the Treaties, and so it may be tempting to suppose, rather more than twenty years since the first contribution on the Free Movement of Goods to this section of the Quarterly, that this is old news. Isn't the law governing the internal market in general and the free movement of goods in particular now well settled?