Kirstyn Inglis qualified as a Scottish solicitor in 1990 and moved to Brussels to specialise in European law. Later, she shifted into academic research, defending her PhD thesis at Ghent University (2006). She is now Post-doc Research Fellow (FWO) there.

• IntroductionPART I EVOLVING PRACTICE IN EUROPEAN UNION ENLARGEMENTChapter 1: Eligible candidates and procedural steps to accessionChapter 2: The Copenhagen criteria: efforts required before and after accessionChapter 3: The pre-accession strategy: from Agenda 2000 to dateChapter 4: Accession Treaties: transitional arrangements and other means to ease the impact of enlargementChapter 5: New flexibility mechanisms in the 2003 and 2005 Accession TreatiesPART IICASE STUDIES ON EC ENVIRONMENT AND AGRI-FOOD LAWChapter 6: EC environment lawChapter 7: EC agri-food lawConclusions

“Inglis is one of a dedicated group of academic writers who has enhanced the understanding of the legal implications of accession – both for the Union and its Member States as well as the acceding countries – particularly surrounding the fifth and sixth enlargements to Central and Eastern Europe (and also Cyprus and Malta) in 2004 and 2007 respectively. The present volume encapsulates her profound professional and personal experiences of CEEC enlargements in the environment and agri-food (especially food safety) sectors. [..] In addressing and analyzing the evolution of transitional arrangements in accession treaties and their intimate interconnection with conditionality, Inglis fills a critical gap in the existing literature. The author impresses the reader with her ability to explain the details and complexity of the inter-relationship between, on the one hand, transitional arrangements whether formal or informal and, on the other, the successful (or otherwise) application of conditionality on the part of the European Union.” - Allan F. Tatham, in: CML Rev. 2011