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The Concept of the Law of the Eurasian Economic Union
- Authors: Neshataeva T.N.1
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Affiliations:
- Russian State University of Justice
- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 95-107
- Section: International law studies
- URL: https://medbiosci.ru/2072-909X/article/view/364373
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.37399/issn2072-909X.2025.2.95-107
- ID: 364373
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The article is devoted to the law of the Eurasian Economic Union, its concept, sources and features. The concept of “EAEU law” is used in the meaning of the “legal system of the EAEU” – a complex category that includes all sources of law of this integration association.
The EAEU Treaty identified the sources of the “EAEU law”: the EAEU Treaty itself: international treaties of the Union with a third party; decisions and orders of the Union’s bodies – the Supreme Eurasian Economic Union, the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, the Eurasian Economic Commission (para. 1 of Art. 6).
The analysis of the sources of integration law made it possible, from the point of view of legal force, to divide them into sources of “hard law” and sources of “soft law”. These sources of “EAEU law” are classified depending on their legal obligation. There is a tendency to increase the regulatory importance of “soft law” acts in the process of integration development.
Conclusions are drawn about the peculiarities of the law-making process in the EAEU, the special role of the EAEU Court, and an assessment of its legal positions is given.
The concept of a “unified harmonized legal space” and methods for achieving uniformity of legal regulation within the EAEU are considered: unification, harmonization and coordination of law.
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Tatiana N. Neshataeva
Russian State University of Justice
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Email: tneshataeva@gmail.com
Doctor of Science (Law), Professor, Head of the International Law Department.
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