The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as a supplementary source of law in the Andean Community. Free trade and state sovereignty

• Autor: Reyes Tagle, Yovana
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2024
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/29032
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/agendainternacional/article/view/29032
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Trade restrictions; Free movement of goods; Andean Community; Sources of law; European Union; Restricciones al comercio; Libre circulación de mercancías; Comunidad Andina; Fuentes del derecho; Unión Europea

The Andean Court of Justice (ACJ) considered Article 34 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) as a supplementary source of law to interpret the principle of free movement of goods in the Andean Community (CAN). The Cartagena Agreement does not provide for the concept of measure of equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions. The objective of this article is to analyze the implications of employing the TFEU as a supplementary source of law and the regulatory capacity of the Member States of the CAN. It is argued that considering the TFEU as a supplementary source of law to interpret the principle of free movement of goods in the CAN facilitated the extensive interpretation of the Cartagena Agreement with the risk of reducing state regulatory capacity.