1994 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The legal environment
Author : Walter Cairns
Published in: The European Business Environment
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Since the original six member states of the European Community (EC) had very similar legal systems based on the codified law model, it is this system which dominates European Union (EU) law. However, the enlargements of the EC in the 1970s and 1980s made it necessary to assimilate new legal concepts, particularly those on which the Anglo-Saxon systems are based.