Shared or Exclusive? -The External Competence of the EU in Regard to TRIPs
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether an exclusive or a shared external competence of the Community is to be preferred regarding matters falling under the TRIPs (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. In Opinion 1/94, the ECJ (European Court of Justice) stated that the Community's external competence regarding TRIPs is shared. This provoked concerns that
