Peter-Tobias Stoll

The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

Foreword.- Table of Abbreviations and Acronyms.- List of Contributors.- Introduction.- Commentary.- Conclusions and Reflections. Annex I.- Annex II.- Annex III.

WTO - Trade Remedies

Leading practitioners and scholars have gathered to provide an invaluable insight and easy access to the law on trade remedies in an article-by-article commentary approach.

WTO - World Economic Order, World Trade Law

This book describes the institutional system, the basic principles and the vast variety of rules of the World Trade Organization. It aims at clarifying the structures and the general concepts, in order to enable the reader to get a better understanding of the issues at stake in many of the discussions and controversies on world trade.

WTO : technical barriers and SPS measures

Preface to the Series Preface to this Volume List of Contributors Table of Abbreviations and Acronyms General Bibliography General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 Article III GATT (Hestermeyer) Article XI GATT (Wolfrum) Article XX GATT [Introduction] (Wolfrum) Article XX GATT [Chapeau] (Wolfrum) Article XX lit. a GATT (Wenzel) Article XX lit. b GATT (Stoll & Strack) Article XX lit. c GATT (Matz-Luck) Article XX lit. d GATT (Reyes-Knoche & Arend) Article XX lit. e GATT (Wenzel) Article XX lit. f GATT (Matz-Luck) Article XX lit. g GATT (Matz-Luck & Wolfrum) Article XX lit. h GATT (Matz-Luck) Article XX lit. i GATT (Matz-Luck) Article XX lit. j GATT (Matz-Luck) Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade Preamble TBT (Koebele) Article 1 and Annex 1 TBT (Koebele) Article 2 TBT (Tamiotti) Article 3 TBT (Tamiotti) Article 4 und Annex 3 TBT (Koebele & LaFortune) Article 5 TBT (Munoz) Article 6 TBT (Munoz) Article 7 TBT (Munoz) Article 8 TBT (Munoz) Article 9 TBT (Koebele) Article 10 TBT (Koebele) Article 11 TBT (Krajewski) Article 12 TBT (Krajewski) Article 13 TBT (Bartels) Article 14 and Annex 2 TBT (Schorkopf) Article 15 TBT (Bartels) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Preamble SPS (Charnovitz) Article 1 and Annex A SPS (Charnovitz) Article 2 SPS (Seibert-Fohr) Article 3 SPS (Landwehr) Article 4 SPS (Landwehr) Article 5 SPS (Stoll & Strack) Article 6 SPS (Landwehr) Article 7 and Annex B SPS (Boeckenfoerde) Article 8 and Annex C SPS (Boeckenfoerde) Article 9 SPS (Seibert-Fohr) Article 10 SPS (Seibert-Fohr) Article 11 SPS (Schorkopf) Article 12 SPS (Roeben) Article 13 SPS (Roeben) Article 14 SPS (Roeben) Index

Article 20: Relationship to Other Treaties: Mutual Supportiveness, Complementarity and Non-Subordination

International law lacks the kind of comprehensive framework to organize and structure its rules, institutions and functions as is provided for in nation states by their constitutional foundations. Instead, the international legal system, at least as far as treaties are concerned, can largely be seen as an ensemble of separate regimes which are equal in rank and distinct in membership, rules, institutions, lawmaking mechanisms and dispute settlement. Their interrelationship is governed by two rather different means: at one side, some political oversight may be exercised by international organizations within a number of confines and limits. At the other side, if it comes to questions of the application and interpretation of particular rules in particular cases, the international law of treaties, as mainly provided for by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969 (VCLT), comes into play.

A Model Labour Chapter for Future EU Trade Agreements

This chapter contains a textual proposal for a model labour chapter to be included into future EU trade agreements. It translates insights gained in in-depth academic research into workable practical solutions for future trade negotiations. It is intended to assist practitioners who are concerned with shaping globalization in a way that is mindful of—and, in the best case, is conducive to—the protection and promotion of labour standards in identifying well-reasoned policy solutions within considerably short windows of time and political opportunity. It was first presented publicly in Brussels on 28 June 2017.

International Economic and Social Dimensions: Divided or Connected?

The recent discussions on trade and labour standards as reflected in this book mirror the widespread concern that today’s international legal framework for globalization does not sufficiently address labour conditions and, more generally, social justice. As is often observed, it appears that globalization moves on with the help of creating and further developing international ‘economic’ institutions and rules, while the ‘social’ aspects are left behind and marginalized. Often, this goes along with statements indicating that economic and social concerns have been more closely linked in the past and that they should come this close again. A historical and analytical tour d’horizon might help to give context to the recent discussion by offering a short overview over a bit more than a century of international relations and some reflections on what has been understood to be ‘economic’ and ‘social’ and how the two are or should be interrelated.

Mega-Regionals: Challenges, Opportunities and Research Questions

While the multilateral GATT/WTO system has been accompanied by “bilateral”, “regional”, “free” or “preferential” trade agreements since quite some time, the recent increase in number and relevance of such agreements, including “mega-regional” agreements may be seen as a categorical change. These new agreements do not only contain quite extensive “deep” rules, which go much further than WTO disciplines and address a number of issues, which had been controversial in the WTO so far. Nevertheless, these new agreements do not formally mark a deviation from the WTO system, but can be seen as set-top agreements. The resulting “hybrid” structure needs care in order to prevent duplication and conflict. Mega-regionals and other recent trade agreements raise a number of questions, which go beyond the traditional rules at hand, mainly Art. XXIV GATT and V GATS. Critical issues do arise not so much in view of the “exclusivity” of provisions but to the contrary, because they attempt to write rules and standards for the world economy at large.

7 Haftung für Umweltschäden im Bereich der Meeresbiodiversität Umweltschadensrecht

Zu den Instrumenten, die zur Wahrung der Integritatsinteressen des Meeresnaturschutzes beitragen, gehort das erst seit Ende 2007 in Kraft befindliche Umweltschadensgesetz (USchadG), das eine offentlich-rechtliche Einstandspflicht fur die Herbeifuhrung von Umweltschaden begrundet.

2 Recht des Meeresnaturschutzes Recht des Meeresnaturschutzes im Überblick

Wer sich der rechtlichen Anforderungen vergewissern will, die den Integritatsinteressen des Naturschutzes in den Bereichen der ausschlieslichen Wirtschaftszone und des Festlandsockels sowie im Kustenmeer zur Durchsetzung verhelfen oder zu ihrer Wahrung beitragen, ist gut beraten, sich zunachst einen Uberblick uber das thematisch einschlagige Regelungsgefuge zu verschaffen.