{"id":586,"date":"2017-01-31T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T09:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=586"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:18:45","slug":"the-non-ratification-scenario-legal-and-practical-responses-to-mixed-treaty-rejection-by-member-states","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/publication\/the-non-ratification-scenario-legal-and-practical-responses-to-mixed-treaty-rejection-by-member-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Non-Ratification Scenario: Legal and Practical Responses to Mixed Treaty Rejection by Member States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Extrait<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The near-death of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and CETA painfully illustrated that the conclusion mixed agreements, i.e. agreements that list the EU, its Member States and a third party as contractors, may be derailed by a negative vote of (sub-)national decision-makers. Such a non-ratification entails a problematic conundrum: Despite the requirement for national ratification under international law, a Member State violates the EU\u2019s legal principles of conferral and loyal cooperation when vetoing a mixed treaty in its entirety. The present paper therefore argues that the Member States are not competent to reject the EU exclusive parts of a mixed treaty in their own right. It suggests that the EU\u2019s and the Member States\u2019 legal authority to ratify mixed agreements is contingent on who owns and who exercises treaty-making power for substantive components and outlines several practical ways to align national (non-)ratification with the EU\u2019s law on competences and procedure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kuebek.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Kuebek_4-2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Acc\u00e8s au texte<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","publication_tax":[47],"class_list":["post-586","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","publication_tax-working-paper"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/586\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceje.meig.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_tax?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}