The Kyoto Protocol in the EU : European community and Member States under international and european law
The participation of the European Community and the Member States in the international climate change regimes is a complex issue. In the case of the Kyoto Protocol, this is rendered more complicated by the fact that, for the purposes of Article 4 of the Kyoto Protocol, the membership of the European Community and Member States is frozen at a particular point in time. The result of this is that, under international law, the European Community and a part of the Member States (EU15) have agreed to jointly fulfil some of those obligations, whereas under community law all Member States share a cert
eBook, English, ©2011
T.M.C. Asser Press ; Springer, The Hague, Berlin, ©2011