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acquis communautaire, n.
Brit. |aˌkiː kəˌm(j)uːnə(ʊ)ˈtɛː|, U.S. |ɑˌki kəˌmunəˈtɛ(ə)r|
[‹ French acquis communautaire (not dated in dictionaries of French) > v.) + communautaire (1966 or earlier in sense ‘of or relating to the European Common Market’).]
The body of accumulated legislation and regulations of the European Union (formerly the European Community). Cf. acquis n.
New member states are required to accept the acquis communautaire before joining the European Union.
1976Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 25 823 Member States..have never suggested that the principles common to the laws of the six original members are part of the acquis communautaire which must be accepted by the new members without alteration. 1981Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 22 Mar. 10 Until now, the EEC has insisted that candidates may only negotiate about how to phase in the existing body of Community law—the ‘acquis communautaire’—and cannot negotiate to change it. 1990A. Barav et al. Yearbk. European Law 1989 IV. 261 A progressive restatement of the legal principles already accepted by the Community, drawn mainly from the rights guaranteed under the European Convention on Human Rights, the Community Treaties and the ‘acquis communautaire’. 2002BusinessWeek 25 Nov. 63/2 The candidates have enshrined the acquis communautaire, 80,000 pages of complex EU law, in their own legal system. |