EU Law of Free Movement of Goods and Customs Union

Laurence Gormley is Professor of European Law and Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. He was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1978 and was awarded the Hon. Sir Peter Bristow Award for that year. He was an Official at the European Commission from 1983-1990, and in 1990 was appointed to the Chair of European Law in Groningen, where he leads the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. He is on the Editorial Boards of numerous journals and has written extensively on European Union Law in myriad articles and contributions to books. He is the author of Prohibiting Restrictions on Trade within the EEC (North Holland, 1985) and of two parts of Vol. 52 of Halsbury's Laws (4th. Ed., 1986). He edited the 2nd. (1989) and 3rd. (1998) editions of Kapteyn & VerLoren van Themaat's Introduction to the Law of the European Communities (Kluwer Law International).He has been Visiting Professor at various Law Faculties, including University College, London, Bonn, Leuven and Bremen, and has been a Visiting Fellow at Sidney Sussex College and the Centre for European Legal Studies at Cambridge. From 1995-2005 he was Chairman of the Dutch Association for Procurement Law, of which he is now an Honorary member and member of the Advisory Council.

Overall, Gormley's book is highly commendable. This new work complements and advances significantly the existing body of legal scholarship in the field. The decision to link the analysis of the Customs Union to that of EU free movement law on goods is a sound one...Indeed, for all those seeking to further their understanding of EU customs and free movement law, this work will prove an invaluable resource

• 1. Introduction ; General ; The Customs Code Committee ; The Customs Territory of the Community ; 2. The Common Customs Tariff ; Scheme and Background ; Establishment of the Common Customs Tariff ; Application of the Common Customs Tariff ; Exclusions and Derogations ; Interpretation ; 3. Origin and valuation of goods ; The Origin of Goods ; Proof of Origin ; Importance of Origin ; Customs Valuation Generally ; Application of the Deductive and Computed Value ; Reasonable Means: The residual or 'fall-back' method of valuation ; 4. Provisions applicable to goods brought into the territory of the Community until they are assigned a customs-approved treatment or use ; Entry of Goods into the Customs Territory of the Community ; Presentation to Customs ; Summary Declaration and Unloading of Goods Presented to Customs ; Obligation to Assign Goods Presented to Customs to a Customs-approved Treatment or Use ; 5. Customs-approved treatment or use ; Assignment and Declarations to Customs ; Release for Free Circulation ; Community Transit ; Customs Procedures with Economic Impact ; Other Types of Customs-approved Treatment or Use ; Export ; 6. Privileged Operations ; 7. Customs debt ; 8. Appeals ; 9. Elimination of customs duties and charges having equivalent effect in trade between member states ; 10. Elimination of quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effects in trade between Member States ; Introduction ; Imports ; Exports ; Justifications for Restrictions on Trade between Member States ; Other Derogations from the Principle of the Free Movement of Goods ; 11. State Monopolies of a Commercial Character ; 12. The Nuclear Common Market