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EU and WTO Law : How Tight Is the Legal Straitjacket for Environmental Product Regulation?

Marc Pallemaerts (Editor)
Annotation Examining the impact of free trade rules, this survey aims to help clarify the legal boundaries that exist on product regulation between national law, European Union (EU) law, World Trade Organization (WTO) law, and international environmental law. Public authorities make a consistent effort to regulate trade, acting within the policy space that remains openboth at the national and supranational levelwhile maintaining environmental protection and sustainable development. In exploring this process, this study brings to light the conflict of interests between free trade rules and product-oriented environmental measures. While environmental law increasingly relies on product regulations as an important policy instrument, supranational economic lawas laid down within the framework of the EU and the WTOtends to view such regulations as trade barriers, which are to be removed as far as possible. This apparent contradiction between environmental protection and trade liberalization is analyzed closely, revealing why it has been the subject of much political and academic debate
eBook, English, Feb. 2006
VUB University Press Independent Publishers Group [distributor], Bruxelles, Chicago, Feb. 2006
Conference papers and proceedings
Scholarly & Professional
1 online resource (327 pages).
9789054874034, 9054874031
1066657513
""Front ""; ""Table of contents""; ""Introduction: European Economic Integration, Globalisation and Environmental Product Regulation""; ""Environmental Product Policies and Consumers: Challenges and Misunderstandings""; ""Is There Any Space Left in the EU Internal Market for National Product-Related Measures?""; ""The Practical Application of Article 95(4) and 95(5) EC Treaty: What Lessons Can We Learn About the Division of Competences Between the EC and the Member States in Product-Related Matters?""; ""WTO Legal Constraints and Opportunities for National Environmental Product Regulations"" ""Labels and Consumer Information: Within the Law or Bypassing It?""""The Belgian Sustainable Product Law From the Perspective of EC and WTO Law""; ""The Transatlantic GMO Dispute Against the European Communities""; ""Promoting Sustainable Development in Developing Countries: A Discriminating Approach by the EC?""; ""Where PIC and POPs Meet GATT and TBT: The Regulation of International Trade in Hazardous Chemical Products and the WTO Multilateral Trading System""