Artemyshyn M. The Legal Regulation of the Trade in Goods within the Common Commercial Policy of the European Community.

These thesis concern: the EC's common commercial policy, its definition, legal nature, sphere of legal effect, subject and instruments; volume of the Community's competence in the sphere of the policy above; the EC's common market, its definition, elements and legal measures applied to the trade in goods. The common commercial policy is researched as one of the EC's common activities aimed at the regulation of its international trade in goods, services and the commercial aspects of intellectual property by the conclusion of the international agreements and the application of the measures of trade protection and the common customs tariff. Within the common commercial policy, the volume of the EC's competence depends on the subject of this policy. If the subject of the policy is the trade in goods, the Community is entitled to the exclusive competence. On another hand, in cases of the international trade in services and the commercial aspects of intellectual property the EC shares the competence with itsmember states. The instruments of the EC's common commercial policy include the international agreements, which regulate the trade between the EC and third states, the trade protection measures and the common commercial tariff. The common commercial policy is an integrated part of the EC's customs union and the Community's mechanism of the legal regulation of its international trade within free competition. At the same time, all of the instruments of the common commercial policy are applied at such integration stage as a common market. The EC's common market is based upon the free movements of goods, services, persons and capital inside and the common economic policies outside.