To the matter of sources of the Eurasian Economic Union law at the current stage
Today Russian international law doctrine and case law have crystallized a problem concerning establishing a list of sources forming the law of the Eurasian Economic Union. In particular, some Russian scholars suggest that Article 6 of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union of May 29, 2014 establishes an exhaustive list of sources forming the law of the Union, however, this opinion is being refuted in case-law of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union as well as by national bodies. The purpose of this study is to substantiate the cognition on the sources of international and national law, as well as the internal law of the international organization that make up the law of the Eurasian Economic Union. The objectives of the study: the discovery of prerequisites for determining the list of sources that make up the law of the Eurasian Economic Union; consider various doctrinal opinions on the list of sources that make up the law of the Eurasian Economic Union, conduct a study of the practice and role of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union on the sources of law and the establishment of their list. The methodological basis of the research was general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization, analogy, induction, deduction) and private-science (formal-legal, historical legal, legal modeling, comparative-legal) methods of cognition. As a result of the conducted research, the author came to the conclusion that the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union of May 29, 2014 does not contain a formally defined list of sources of law of the Union. Article 6 of the Treaty establishes only the hierarchy of the sources of the law of the Union, but in reality the Union»s law is comprising of various international treaties, international customs, generally-recognized principles and norms of international law, the law of the World Trade Organization, acts of Union bodies, the Court of the Eurasian Economic Community and Eurasian Economic Union, «soft» law, the internal law of the Union, as well as the national law of the Member States of the Union.