O.V. Belousova Forms of Legal Regulation in the European Union: Unification of International Law

Abstract: The article covers the questions of sources of legal regulation within the European Union. Different points of view about the classification of sources are represented in the article, there made a conclusion that the most definitive classification will be the classification, suggested by S.U. Kashkin, according to which all sources are divided into three groups: “primary law”, which consists of constituent documents and documents, changing its, “secondary law”, which is formed by acts of European organs and institutes, and case-law, which is represented by the decisions of European courts. There is also the conclusion in the article that for aims of unification of private-international law in European Union the most interest is of regulation as the only form of European act, which guarantees its direct force.

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