Free movement of goods in the light of the Case Law of the court of justice of the European Union

The free movement of goods is one of the fundamental principles of the European Union (EU) Internal Market. This freedom implies that national barriers to the movement of goods within the EU are removed. These national barriers are prevented by the abolition of customs duties and charges of equivalent effect and quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect which still remain in existence in intra-Union trade. Many barriers have also been lifted through harmonisation in the Union. The absence of harmonisation of legislation, the provisions of articles 28 and 29 of the Treaty (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union article 34 and 35), which are of direct effect and thus may be applicable by national courts, forbid Member States from maintaining or imposing intra-Union trade barriers, except in special circumstances. These special circumstances are derogations of free movement of goods which are mentioned in article 30 (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union article 36) and mandatory requirements which are recognised by the Court of Justice.This study basically deals with the scope of articles about free movement of goods in the Treaty and also the impact of the Court?s interpretation of freedom. In doing so, it aims not only providing a more detailed analysis of the Court?s reasonings considering the ares identified by the Court but also revealing an examination of the provisions relating the free movement of goods and tracing the development of the Court?s jurisprudence. Therefore first section of the study deals with the general framework of the free movement of goods as an internal market freedom and application field of free movement of goods. In the second section the prohibitions within the context of free movement of goods will be mentioned. The derogations of free movement of goods which are mentioned in Treaty article 30 and also held by Court will be examined in the third section. In the last section application of the Court?s case law relating to the free movement of goods will be analyzed with the context of EU-Turkey Association.