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DOI: 10.21128/2226-2059-2024-4-138-152
Keywords: courts of integration associations; Eurasian Economic Union; Andean Community; Mercosur; comparative legal analysis; judicial position; legal order of an integration association; freedom of movement of goods; protection of free competition; customs regulation
The article is devoted to a comparative legal analysis of the jurisprudence of courts of integration associations of Latin American states and the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union. The application of the comparative legal approach allows us to study not only the letter of the law, but also the goals, objectives, values of integrative cooperation of states. The application of the teleological method of interpretation of the law by integration courts allows them to resolve legal conflicts based on the goals and objectives of integration. Courts of integration associations are united by a common goal — to ensure uniform application of the law of an integration union. This goal can be achieved through exercising the court’s jurisdiction, both in resolving disputes and in providing advisory opinions or making decisions on requests for preliminary interpretation of the law. The article pays attention to the peculiarities of interpretation of the law by various integration courts. The Court of Justice of the Andean Community interpreted the content and scope of the obligation of a national court to request a preliminary interpretation of the Andean Community law from a supranational court and concluded that a national judge may not request a new preliminary interpretation from the Andean Court if it had already interpreted the rule in question in a previous decision on preliminary interpretation. With regard to the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union, the article points out the importance of the Court's advisory opinions on the clarification of the EAEU law, which guide the Union's bodies and member states in their rule-making and law enforcement practices. The legal positions developed by integration courts are of great importance for the formation and development of integration law, ensuring its uniformity and harmonization of the law of an integration association with the legal systems of its member states. The integration courts have established legal positions concerning basic properties of the integration legal order, freedom of movement of goods, protection of free competition, customs regulation, which are of particular importance for building a common economic and legal space.
Citation:
Rafalyuk E. (2024) Praktika Suda Evraziyskogo ekonomicheskogo soyuza i sudov integratsionnykh ob'edineniy Latinskoy Ameriki v fokuse sravnitel'no-pravovogo analiza [Jurisprudence of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union and the courts of Latin American integration associations: a comparative legal analysis]. Mezhdunarodnoe pravosudie, vol.14, no.4, pp.138–152. (In Russian).
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