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in this first lesson on eu law we're going to be talking about the historical origins of the european union and the the general motivations behind further integration of member states of europe um we're going to do this because i think it's foundational to really to really start to understand the legal principles within the eu start to talk about things like the the single market and you know and competition law and all these kind of things it's it's important to understand um the historical origins of the eu and how the european union developed so we're starting to look at development of the european union so development generally in you know from its foundations with the eec treaty you know all the way up coming to things like the lisbon treaty um in the in the 2000s so we're going to begin by briefly examining the the real foundational document um within within eu law and we're going to like and then we'll stick take a step back have a look at the the context of the eez treaty within a um a a treaty that was established slightly earlier than the ec treaty you know and then we're going to start to bring back and start to examine the treaty of rome specifically so i should just note here that the eec stands for european economic community okay and we are talking about this being established by the treaty of rome so if i'm talking about the eec treaty i i they're just indistinguishable from the treaty of rome so treaty of rome eec treaty okay just so because if i start to use them interchangeably and people start to get confused then i'm gonna get people in the comments asking questions so the treaty of rome was signed by these states here they were signed by france germany italy belgium the netherlands and luxembourg and this was done in 1957 and the general motivation for the treaty of rome was to quote lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of europe and this is you know this is the general the general motivation of the european union as a whole effectively so you know motivation of the eu as a whole so when we start to look at the at the historical uh origins of the european union and we start to look at its development through you know through the years start keeping the back of your mind the concept of ever closer union among the peoples of europe the concept of european integration so this is really what a lot of the key features of the european unions are trying to are trying to achieve a further integration of of of of member states in europe so ultimately the motivation for further european integration came um at the end of world war ii so world war ii happened between 39 and 45 you know it was a the most destructive single armed conflict in all of human history and there was a desire following this um effectively this destruction of europe there was a desire to try and seek greater political and economic integration on the pretense that this would make um peace more likely so this would ensure peace so this would ensure peace and because this is this because if european nations were more economically integrated they would have to rely on each other more for you know for economic prosperity which made it difficult for them to go to war if you have got if you're relying for example on on a different country to in for imports of you know a number of very important resources it's probably not a wise idea to then go and bomb that country and try and take and try and destroy that country because then you're gonna have limited access to those to those resources that's a very um that's a very basic you know understanding of of of the general motivation towards further integration the ec treaty established what we call a common market to promote economic integration and we're going to talk a lot about the common market as we go on through the lessons and we're going to talk about how the common market starts to develop into customs unions and then into the single market of the european union before the treaty of rome in 1951 we also have the ecsc treaty okay and this was seen as the the kind of push towards greater integration um immediately after the second world war and it was you know the european coal and steel community treaty and it basically envisaged the linking of french and german economies um specifically within the you know the industrial output of coal and steel the coal and steel community and this treaty created a common market in coal and steel and it was very interesting that this was um a period of time when it was regulated by four supranational institutions with decision-making powers we're going to start to talk about the supranational institutions when we start to look at how the these institutions would eventually evolve through treaty through treaty law and through um european enlargement into the institutions of the european union that we have today things like the european council the parliament uh the ecj all these kind of things and the concept of supernatural authority is something that was yeah this increasingly important than the establishment of the european union because the european union the idea is that what we have with these supranational institutions is that member states um voluntarily delegate um you know certain powers to this um this uh supernatural institution so we start to see different areas being harmonized across all of the eu member states okay and we're gonna start and we'll look at specifically the idea of harmonization when we look in detail at the ueu single market so the eec and the eurotom treaties of 1957 was what we just talked about before the treaty of rome okay they built upon this original treaty the ecsc treaty and the extended economic integration beyond colon's deal so the the colons deals communities treaty uh was was quite seminal in its in its ability to create a common market between coal and steel the eec treaty created a customs union by incorporating free movement of goods between member states and this is very important because it also uh so i'll i'll talk about free movement of goods in a minute so this was the this was you know one point to the eec treaty the treaty of rome what it also managed to do was also establish um a single common customs tariff for external goods entering the community okay so not only did it regulate so let's just you know use a very basic diagram so let's just you know you know eec so this is the community so not only did it regulate the movement of goods from member states within the community but also um also establish a common regulation between goods coming in and out of of the community around the world okay and the concept of the free movement of goods and the concept of a customs union is very very very important within the context of the european economic constitution so the european economic constitution economic constitution and ultimately the aim of creating this customs union the aim of the treaty of rome was to try and achieve a an internal market and again i'm gonna um say that we're going to um you know interchangeably use the terms internal market and single market i'm gonna use single market as much as i can because that's the phraseology that i was taught so we've got single market and internal market but they effectively mean you know effectively the same thing okay and so we will we'll examine the single market in great detail but for now we should just um you know put down some some general basic definitions so the idea of a single market entails um the removal of barriers to trade and establish free movement rights as well as anti-competitive practices so when we have the single market what we are trying to aim to do is protect free movement rise so the free movement of goods the free movement of people the free movement of services and the free movement of capital okay and within that as well you also within the context of services you also have the freedom um of establishment in other member states and this effectively would um would involve um increasing market access between each member states between the member states so that trade can be done um frictionless there'll be frictionless trade between member states and again this is all to do with promoting economic integration economic integration we will see in the next lesson when we start to look at the the single european act and the commission's um and the commission's paper on on completing the internal market that ultimately the europeans economic constitution the motivations the economic motivations of the european union is to create the single market in order to ensure economic integration so that's what we're going to talk about with the single market and also we you know we've got this added um we've got this added economic um motivation which is to not only regulate trade within member states but also to regulate trade with were between the the the community and external external states okay and so the founding states of the eec eec treaty also signed the european atomic energy community treaty or eurotom treaty and this effectively established um was established to regulate nuclear power between member states i i it's i'm torn between whether or not we're going to examine the eurotom treaty in very much detail because it's sort of tan only tangentially related to to european union law and it's more its own kind of thing it's more of a a branch of almost nuclear law than it's than it is to do with the european union specifically so i'm sure it will i'm sure it will come up within the context of you know with at some point but just to know there that the eurotom treaty established um established regulations of nuclear power between member states so this is really where we see the origins of the european union in the next lesson we're going to see how these foundations started to build into the european union that we see today before we start to look at how the european union creates legislation and how the european union institutions operate within each other