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Bernard, Nick --- "Internal market governance in a globalised marketplace: the case for air transport" [2006] ELECD 418; in Shuibhne, Nic Niamh (ed), "Regulating the Internal Market" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: Regulating the Internal Market

Editor(s): Shuibhne, Nic Niamh

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845420338

Section: Chapter 11

Section Title: Internal market governance in a globalised marketplace: the case for air transport

Author(s): Bernard, Nick

Extract:

11. Internal market governance in a
globalised marketplace: the case
of air transport
Nick Bernard

INTRODUCTION
The Commission's White Paper on Completing the Internal Market1 had
remarkably little to say about external trade. The only passage that acknowl-
edges its relevance for the internal market is concerned with the maintenance
of internal border controls that would result from the continued use of the then
Article 115 EEC. It was thus a perspective which was doubly limited, first
in terms of the markets concerned (goods market only, to the exclusion of
services) and, secondly, in terms of the issues addressed (physical barriers/
border controls). Admittedly, it has to be acknowledged that, notwithstanding
the language of `completion', the White Paper and the 1992 programme were
never meant to provide a complete and systematic inventory of all the issues
that still needed to be addressed to `merge the national markets into a single
market bringing about conditions as close as possible to those of a genuine
internal market'.2 1992 was at least as much a political project, a rallying cry
to re-start the European integration engine and get out of Euro-sclerosis, as it
was an endeavour to ensure that the potential economic benefits of European
integration were reaped.
As always, solving one particular set of problems brings to the fore hidden
ones and lack of progress on external trade has become a more prominent issue
than it was in the mid-1980s. It is not just a question of ...