EU regulation has established the Rapid intervention mechanism where there are clear unmistakable and unjustified obstacles to free movement of goods which may result in serious disruption to the free movement of goods and may cause loss. A formal decision may be addressed to the state concerned, requiring the obstacles to be removed within that time limit set by the Commission.<\/p>\n
The regulation places a duty on the Commission to act within five days of becoming aware of the relevant fact.\u00a0 The state is given 3 to 5 days to submit a response \/ defence.\u00a0 The state must comply with the Commission\\’s decision. There is an expedited procedure if there is a failure of compliance upon exhaustion of the procedure. Enforcement proceedings may be taken before the Court of Justice.<\/p>\n
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Barriers to Trade The European Union treaty prohibits quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect between member states.\u00a0 This applies both to imports and exports.\u00a0 Certain limited exceptions, based on narrow public policy considerations, apply. The prohibition applies to measures taken by member states.\u00a0 This includes not only laws and binding rules, but also administrative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18753,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions\/18753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}