The Principles of Mutual Recognition in the European Integration Process

1. Front Matter

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2. The Principle of Mutual Recognition and Respect for National, Regional and Local Identities and Traditions

   • Alfonso Mattera

   Pages 1-24

3. Mutual Recognition, Functional Equivalence and Harmonization in the Evolution of the European Common Market and the WTO

   • Joseph H. H. Weiler

   Pages 25-84

4. Mutual Recognition in Goods and Services: An Economic Perspective

   • Jacques Pelkmans

   Pages 85-128

5. Globalization with Human Faces: Managed Mutual Recognition and the Free Movement of Professionals

   • Kalypso Nicolaïdis

   Pages 129-189

6. Mutual Recognition, Unemployment and the Welfare State

   • Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa

   Pages 190-223

7. The Cultural Foundations of Mutual Recognition

   • Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa

   Pages 224-231

8. Back Matter

   Pages 233-242

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Mutual Recognition (MR) implies that each Member State is free to use the standards for production it prefers but cannot inhibit the import from other Member States lawfully using other standards, unless justified by emergency reasons. The home country rule then prevails on the host country. Barriers to entry diminish, competition rises in the internal market. This volume looks at a number of aspects of MR, including why its importance cannot be understood outside the general practice of free movement and how some elements of MR already emerge in the skilled labour market of professionals.

• European integration
• globalization
• WTO

• Faculty of Economics, Department of Public Economics, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy

  Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa

ALFONSO MATTERA Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission KALYPSO NICOLAIDIS Lecturer in International Relations, Oxford University, UK JACQUES PELKMANS Professor in Economics, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands JOSEPH H. H. WEILER Director, NYU School of Law, New York University, USA

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