Smyrnova K. Sources of the European Union Law

Abovementioned thesis is devoted to the research of European Union law sources, its definition and juridical characteristics. Interrelations between the EU law sources and acquis communautaire are being analyzed in the research. The acquis communautaire concept is wider than the EU law sources notion because the latter doesn't include recommendations, nonbinding acts, political decisions, decisions of EC Court, doctrine notions and custom. Complex of the EU acts, classified into internal and external on the criteria of object, subject, adoption procedure, implementation method and their role in integration process regulation in the EU, is being investigated in the work. Among the EU internal sources the author analyses establishing European integration entity Treaties, other statutory documents; acts of the EC institutes; acts adopted within the second (common foreign and security policy) and the third (coordination in justice and home affairs) pillar of the EU. Among the EU external sources the authoranalyses international agreements with the third countries or international organizations and acts adopted by the coordination bodies based on the international agreements. The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement concluded between European Communities and their Member States, and Ukraine (PCA), recommendation acts of its coordination bodies are studied. Special attention is given to juridical characteristics and implementation particularities of Action Plan "Ukraine - the EU" (2005) that promotes an individual acquis for Ukraine.