Legal Certainty as a Criteria for the Validity of the Decisions of the Eurasian Economic Commission on the Classification of a Particular Commodity
The principle of legal certainty plays a significant role in ensuring the stability of the legal regulation and in the achievement of the goal of the supremacy of law. This principle, having gained widespread use in the practices of international and national courts, is evolving and is complemented by new elements, among which are the strict compliance with set time limits, the incontestability of judicial acts, and the clarity and justifiability of a legal provision. The analysis of practical activities of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union, and earlier, of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Community, evidences the consistent reference to the principle of legal certainty. Within the frames of this article, the author studies the acts of judicial authorities of the integration union and comes to the conclusion that this principle gains key significance in the course of evaluation of the conformance to the law of the Eurasian Economic Union of decisions of the Eurasian Economic Commission related to the classification of individual kinds of goods. The reference to decisions of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union evidences that the criterion of justifiability of an act adopted by the European Union is regarded as a substantial procedural requirement, not meeting which may serve as the basis for the cancellation of relevant act.