acquis communautaire
European Union legislation
Acquis communautaire is the accumulated body of European Union law—all treaties, regulations, directives, and court decisions that EU member states must adopt.
Countries seeking EU membership must accept the entire acquis as a condition of joining.
The French term (roughly "community acquisitions") remains standard in legal and diplomatic contexts: Negotiations focused on the candidate's alignment with the acquis communautaire.
- directivesFormal commands or instructions
- co-decisionShared power to decide
- transpositionSwapping positions of elements
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
- European UnionContinental political-economic federation
direct effect · single market · treaties · customs union · subsidiarity · Treaty of Rome · harmonization · integration · enlargement · accession · membership · legislation · adoption · Lisbon · negotiation · Brussels · EU · candidate
- EUEuropean Commission, European Union, Austria, European Parliament, Belgium
- EU lawTreaty of Rome, directives, transposition, direct effect, infringement
- EU Integrationeuro, EU membership, European Central Bank, free movement, monetary union
- EU/NATO expansionenlargement, membership criteria, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic
- EU TreatiesTreaty of Rome, Treaty of Paris
acquis communautairedomestic law
A nation's internal rules
national legislation · national sovereignty · state sovereignty · national law · autarky
acquis communautaireBrexit
UK leaving European Union
opt-out · non-compliance · disintegration · renationalization · derogation
acquis communautairederegulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
acquire, inquire, acquiring, acquisition, prerequisite, requisition, acquisitions, acquirer, reacquire