Brief description
The aim of the module is to give those concerned with the management of business trading with Europe essential grounding in those key areas of law most likely to impinge upon those businesses.

Content
1. Introduction to methodology and sources of European Law

• the treaty structure of the E.U. and E.C., and the organisation of the E.U. into three 'pillars'

• the role, working and interrelationship of the main E.U. institutions (Council, Commission, Parliament, Court of Justice and Court of First Instance, Court of Auditors)

• sources: primary and secondary categories of E.C. law (regulations, directives, and other major types of measure); the E.C. legislative process; the role of the E.C.J. in the development of E.C. law

• the relationship between the E.U./E.C. legal system and member state legal orders

• fundamental concepts of the E.C. legal order: supremacy and direct effect of E.C. rules; protection of basic rights

2. The impact of European Law in key areas of business activity

• single market rules: free movement of goods, capital and workers; freedom of establishment and the right to provide services
• competition rules
• key areas of Employment Law (equal pay and treatment)