Resumen de Implications of Enlargement for EC Agri‐Food Law: the Accession Treaty, its Transitional Arrangements, and Safeguard Clauses, December 2003

Kirstyn Inglis

• The purpose of this paper is to anticipate the implications of the transitional arrangements contained in the Accession Treaty on the agri‐food acquis after enlargement on 1 May 2004. While the combination of the current reform of agri‐food law and the system of transitional arrangements will contribute to the complexity of EC agri‐food law, enlargement also raises other important implications for the future evolution of EC agri‐food law. Drawing on experiences gained as a result of the pre‐accession strategy, together with an analysis of the readiness of the new Member States to apply the agri‐food acquis, this paper concludes with a number of comments on the future evolution of the agri‐food acquis in a Union of twenty‐five Member States.