Editing Acquis communautaire (section)

==Terminology==
The term ''acquis'' is also used to describe laws adopted under the [[Schengen Agreement]], prior to its integration into the European Union legal order by the [[Treaty of Amsterdam]], in which case one speaks of the ''Schengen acquis''.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}

The term ''acquis'' has been borrowed by the [[World Trade Organization]] Appellate Body, in the case ''Japan &ndash; Taxes on Alcoholic Beverages'', to refer to the accumulation of [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] (GATT) and WTO law ("''acquis gattien''"), though this usage is not well established.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}

It has been used to describe the achievements of the [[Council of Europe]] (an international organisation unconnected with the European Union):<ref>Section 12, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Resolution 1290</ref>
{{Blockquote|The Council of Europe's ''acquis'' in standard setting activities in the fields of democracy, the [[rule of law]] and fundamental human rights and freedoms should be considered as milestones towards the European political project, and the [[European Court of Human Rights]] should be recognised as the pre-eminent judicial pillar of any future architecture.}}

It has also been applied to the body of "principles, norms and commitments" of the [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]] (OSCE):<ref>[http://www.osce.org/documents/sg/2004/06/3241_en.pdf Intervention by Ambassador Aleksi Härkönen, Permanent Representative of Finland to the OSCE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051016085140/http://www.osce.org/documents/sg/2004/06/3241_en.pdf |date=16 October 2005 }}, Annual Security Review Conference.</ref>
{{Blockquote|Another question under debate has been how the Partners and others could implement the OSCE acquis, in other words its principles, norms, and commitments on a voluntary basis.}}

The [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] (OECD) introduced the concept of the OECD Acquis in its "Strategy for enlargement and outreach", May 2004. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oecd.org/global-relations/globalrelationsstrategy/37434513.pdf#page=44 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.oecd.org/global-relations/globalrelationsstrategy/37434513.pdf#page=44 |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=ANNEX 1: THE CONCEPT OF THE OECD "ACQUIS": A NOTE BY THE DIRECTORATE FOR LEGAL AFFAIRS|page=44|website=Oecd.org|access-date=21 January 2022}}</ref>