Originally Posted by YOWkid
On the LO site, there are intra-Polish return airfares that are selling for 60EUR (or so) and fare rules indicate that the fares can be sold in PL only. Isn't this in infrigement on EU laws? And here I thought that Accession Countries were the best at implementing the acquis!
You're right about the infringement of EU laws here (the same fare should be available to anyone wanting to buy it within the EU).
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As for accession countries being better at implementing the
acquis communautaire , well that's certainly not my experience to date (at least not on certain issues important to the individual countries - they've been very good at implementing the bulk of stuff though).
They don't need to implement most of the competition law legislation (or the basic principle of the internal market) though (Article 81 is directly effective). Maybe LOT just haven't update their fare rules (I would be very interested if they were actually enforcing this against people with billing addresses in other EU countries).
One accession country recently tried to block a takeover of a local firm by a Norweigian company on the grounds that they were not yet a member of the EEA because their parliament had not yet ratified the treaty concerned. This was a bit rich given that the said treaty was due to be ratified later that same week...
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For the uninitiated, the
acquis communautaire is the term given to the body of all EU laws currently in force. Rem Koolhaas, a Dutch artist, recently had the entire set of laws bound together in a single volume and put it on display in a large circus tent outside the European Commission's headquarters. The book was over 3 metres thick (around half of which related to agriculture)!