120-0515/01 – Single European Market (SEM)
Gurantor department | Department of International Economic Relations | Credits | 8 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Bc. Monika Mynarzová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Ing. Magdaléna Kubečková, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | English |
Year of introduction | 2007/2008 | Year of cancellation | 2012/2013 |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
1.Explain principles of functioning of the single market
2.Analyze barriers in the internal market
3.Clarify the functioning of the four freedoms of the internal market
4.Solve case studies related to doing business in the internal market
5.Evaluate the influence of other EU policies to the functioning of the single market
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Summary
The goal of the course is to complete the student's knowledge in the area of the internal market of the European Union The course begins with a historical introduction to the development of the complete internal market and the principles of its functioning. The fundamental part of the course focuses on the basic economic freedoms, i.e. the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital. Attention is also paid to European forms of commercial companies, as well as compliance with the rules of economic competition, but also the protection of intellectual property rights and consumer protection in the single internal market. The course also discusses the legal aspects of doing business in the internal market.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Other requirements are not required.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Development of the single market, definition of single market,
principles
underpinning the internal market, harmonisation
2. Free movement of goods
3. Free movement of services
4. Free movement of capital and payments
5. Free movement of persons, labour law
6. Company law – founding a business, European company statute
7. Competition rules – monopoly and dominant position, mergers
8. Competition rules – cartel agreements, state aid, and state monopoly.
Role of
the Commission
9. European private law (Rome Convention, Brussels convention, Lugano
Convention)
10. Intellectual property rights. Intellectual property and free movement
of goods.
11. Intellectual property rights in the single European market. Patents,
trademarks, industrial designs. WIPO
12. Consumer protection on the single market
13. Consumer protection networks
14. Recent situation in the market. Discussion
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
Předmět neobsahuje žádné hodnocení.