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• International identity

•Legal personality: “a capacity of a person or an entity to enter into legal relations and to create the consequent rights and duties attached to that capacity.”

•Actorness: international presence and influence, focusing on the international role the EU perceives. How much real influence the EU has on the external environment.

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legal personality.

•Observer: UN (Resolution 3208/XXIX) with great privileges (WHO, WIPO, ILO) that include participation at meetings (UNCTAD, UNHCR)

•Specific status: between observer and member or participant in the works (Council of Europe, OECD)

•Full membership participation: North-West Fishery Atlantic organization (NAFO), FAO, WTO, EBRD, European Organization for Safety of Air Navigation (EUROCONTROL)

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•External trade (part of the common commercial policy or CCP)

•Development policy

•Humanitarian aid

•Human rights and democracy

•Relations with third countries (including enlargement)

•CFSP/ESDP

•Competencies: express powers (e.g. common commercial policy) or implied (ECJ jurisprudence: “EC powers to enter into the international commitments necessary of attainment of a specific objective of the EC, even in the absence of an express provision to that effect”)

•Competencies: exclusive (e.g. customs union) or concurrent (e.g. social policy)

•Mandates & Supervision