The Relations of the European Communities With the International Law Treaties of the Member States

Abstract

This article discusses the legal relationship between the EC and the international agreements concluded by the member states with the third parties either before or after the accession within the context of the debate over the issue of the constitutionalization of international legal order which is not led by a centralized authority and does not always encompasses all aspects of this order. It underlines that this development is not without some serious contradictions and leads inevitably to conflict of competences between the realms of domestic and international legal order in settling the legal disputes without violating the principles, obligations and requirements of the international law as has been the case with the relationship (and conflict) of the EU law with the obligations arising from the agreements signed by its members.