There's nothing, that I can find, in the EU treaties about secession or member states splitting. So it's based on the normal "rules" of independence, as I suggested above. There is some small precedent, however, of Greenland, which gained protectorate autonomy from Denmark in '85, and was given the choice of membership. It declined. But that was under older treaties.
The full advice is not published (the government's legal advice never is, and it's FOI immune), but it has been widely reported and leaked, and is the talk of law departments all over Scotland. Here's the Telepgraph's (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/8850189/Independent-Scotland--would-have-to-join-the-euro.html) report of it.
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Date: 2011-10-27 02:16 pm (UTC)The full advice is not published (the government's legal advice never is, and it's FOI immune), but it has been widely reported and leaked, and is the talk of law departments all over Scotland. Here's the Telepgraph's (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/8850189/Independent-Scotland--would-have-to-join-the-euro.html) report of it.