ECLAW AND NATIONAL LAWS IN THE WAKE OF THE COMPLETION OF THE INTERNAL MARKET IN 1992

1992年欧洲内部市场的建成，甚至在日本学术界也带来了繁荣。一些学术团体在缺乏欧共体法律专家的情况下，将其作为年度会议的主题。不幸的是，在批准马斯特里赫特条约遇到严重困难之后，公众的兴趣似乎一直在减少。然而，在我们这个无国界经济时代，也就是全球化时代，欧洲一体化的重要性不可低估。我们的研究旨在促进对欧洲一体化的高度复杂过程的理解。为此，我们采取了两个层次的方法来处理这个问题。一方面，我们试图说明欧共体法和国内法之间复杂的相互作用（特别参见伊藤和中村的文章）。另一方面，我们在世界贸易全球化的背景下对欧共体法进行了分析（特别参见松下和石黑的文章）。在研究过程中，由于欧共体法的多语言性，我们遇到了法律的术语翻译的困难。事实上，它的多语言主义只不过是其法律的多元文化主义的一种表达，这要求我们反思对欧共体法的科学方法。这就是为什么我们必须有一个国家法律的比较视角（复数！可以肯定地说，在世纪初，对共同体法的研究将更加重要。因此，必须继续关注欧洲一体化的发展。

The completion of the European internal market in 1992 brought a boom even in the Japanese academic world. Some academic societies took it as a topical theme in their annual conference in spite of the lack of specialists in EC law. Unfortunately, it seems that public interest has been dwindling after that the ratification of the Maastricht treaty encountered serious difficulties. Nevertheless the growing importance of the everlasting European integration cannot be overestimated in our era of borderless economy, in a word, globalisation.Our research aimed at promotion of understanding in the highly complex process of the European integration by law. For this purpose, we adopted a two-level approach to the subject. On the one hand, we tried to illustrate the complex interaction between EC law and national laws (see, in particular, articles by Ito and Nakamura). On the other hand, we analyzed EC law in the context of globalisation of world trade (see, in particular, articles by Matsushita and Ishiguro).In the course of our research, we encountered difficulties in translation of legal terms in EC law because of its multilingualism. In fact, its multilingualisme is no other than an expression of its legal multiculturalism which calls for reflection on our scientific approach to EC law. That is why We must have a comparative perspective of national laws (in plural! ) of the Member States.It is safely submitted that studies of Community law will have more importance in early 21st century. It is thus essential to continue following developments of the European integration.