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Ojiambo, Colbert. "EU-ACP economic agreements and WTO/GATT compatibility : options for ACP countries under Cotonou Agreement." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28400.
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Macheru, Maryanne Wambui. "East African community-European Union economic partnership agreement, to be or not to be? Will conomic partnership agreement undermine or accelerate trade development within the East African community." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_4327_1363780584.
Full textTotkovičová, Lucia. "Špecifiká ekonomík Karibiku v kontexte Ekonomických partnerských dohôd a vzťahy s EU." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-162212.
Full textLautard-Mattioli, Clémence. "La politique préférentielle de l'Union européenne en faveur des pays en développement au regard du droit de l'OMC : chronique d'une mise en conformité difficile." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010296/document.
Full textThe European Union (EU) Preferential Treatment aims at granting an easier access to the common market. For the Developing Countries, the interest of such a policy is to enhance their exportation ability, and consequently, to secure growth and development since two decades, this policy is constantly and thoroughly changing. To analyze this mutation we have to consider the way the World Trade Organization (WTO) Law is integrated by and within the European instruments, as the EU is due to abide by it. In practice, this obligation was often breached. The EU and the WTO are related in a strong but complex way. Compliance is the instrument used in order to ensure the observance of WTO law: li has been imposed by the WTO framework and translated within the EU law. Nevertheless, compliance has different meanings depending on which provision is analyzed. The specificity of the European instruments legal basis, as well as the complex relationships between the two legal systems, led to a complex process of compliance. If progress is real, various issues remain unresolved. To some extent, the reform of the EU preferential treatment is a threat for the originality of European instruments toward Developing Countries. This process raises also questions about the relationship between bilateralism and multilateralism
Girardo, Benjamin. "La conditionnalité politique dans le système de préférences généralisées (SPG) de l’Union européenne : contribution à une identité de l'Union pour le développement." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAD008.
Full textA Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) is a reduction in custom fees on exports from « developing » subjects of public international law to « developed » countries. As a general rule, conditionality is a tool used to establish, deepen or maintain a legal situation conditioned by specific behavior from it’s beneficiary(ies). This tool is qualified as « political » when it conditions governing tools and/or the public policy of a subject of public international law. The European Union’s GSP has several forms of conditionality which deal with the public of policy of the developing countries benefiting from reduced custom fees. This work aims to study the EU’s conditioned GSP in the context of this sui generis international organization’s construction and as evidence of a EU-specific conception of international relations for development. As each legal tool reflects it’s creator, how does this act reveal certain characteristics of the EU or even aspects of the EU’s identity ? The EU’s conditioned GSP is an expression of European identity as it is defined unilaterally and applied with relative uniformity. However, this expression is limited and ambivalent. First of all, limited, because the GSP is a secondary act within EU commercial policy and it’s political conditionality is not found in other elements of the EU’s foreign relations. Secondly, ambivalent, because this GSP can seem illegal in the context of international commercial relations, all the while renewing the concept of development-through-trade within the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Jahnel, Carsten H. "Transatlantic relations : are alliances a funcion [i.e. function] of an external threat? /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Jun%5FJahnel.pdf.
Full textThesis Advisor(s): Donald Abenheim, Hans-Eberhardt Peters. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-98). Also available online.
Poulet, Julie. "Direct effect of the law of the GATT in the European Union, the United States and the consequences for the WTO." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=78227.
Full textHowever, since WTO members are still highly opposed to the recognition of the direct effect of the GATT, the unlikelihood of its implementation, at least in a short term perspective, will lead to an analysis of the situation directly at the WTO level. This will permit us to further conclude, whether it would be possible to find solutions to palliate the problems arising out of the denial of the direct effect of the GATT at a national level. Indeed, in the last part of the analysis undertaken in this work, various ways to remedy the deficit of democracy will be explored, examining alternatively the best vectors that could be used: individuals or NGOs, in order to enhance the legitimacy of the WTO which is principally under attack.
Huang, He. "At the Crossroad of Free Trade and Trade Protectionism: Analyzing EU’s External Trade Policy under the Impetus of Global Trade Liberalization." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Engineering, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9367.
Full textDeparting from the case of textile and clothing trade dispute between the EU and China in 2005, it has been noticed that the EU’s policy in textile trade to a large extent has been situated in a position of dilemma. On the one hand, the growing global impetus of liberalization in the sector forces the EU to open up its market to cheap textile imports from the developing countries; on the other hand, the fierce protectionist pressures come from the domestic producers and slow down the paces towards liberalization, or sometimes even take setback towards more conservative performances. By placing this case in a broader context, the EU’s external trade policy is confronted with the similar dilemma, swaying between the trade liberalization and trade protection. Consequently, does the EU emerge in the current multilateral trading system of the WTO as a force for trade liberalization or a force for trade protectionism?
Bearing this question in mind, the general climate of global trade under the GATT/WTO and the EU’s external trade policy will firstly be examined. Then, the EU’s trade protectionism is about to be explained by strategic trade theory, the high political content of the EU’s external trade policy and the fragmentation in the EU’s policy networks; while the EU’s inclination towards trade liberalization will be explained by the implications from the conventional trade theory and new institutionalism, and as well as the impacts from the general climate of global trade.
The results shows that the EU’s external trade policy under the global trade liberalization is a mixture, neither pure liberalization nor pure protectionism. With regard to the trade issues concerning to the vital interests, the Union without exception inclines to conservative protectionism; whereas concerning the issues of less importance, compromises and concessions always lead the outcomes of the policy to the inspiring liberalization.
Keawchaum, Chirat. "Judicial interactions of the WTO's rulings by the CJEU." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=234055.
Full textWeber, Olaf. "WTO-Streitbeilegung und EuGH im Vergleich : zur gerichtsförmigen Konfliktlösung in Handelspräferenzzonen /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016138038&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textNotaro, Nicola. "Judicial approaches to trade and environment : the EC and the WTO /." London : Cameron May, 2003. http://lib.hku.hk/hkspc/wto/index.html.
Full textMasuku, Gabriel Mthokozisi Sifiso. "Harmonization of SACU Trade Policies in the Tourism & Hospitality Service Sectors." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1740_1280359750.
Full textThe general objective of the proposed research is to do a needs analysis for the tourism and hospitality industries of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland. This will be followed by an alignment of these industries with the provisions of the General Agreement of Trade in Services, commonly known as GATS, so that a Tourism and Hospitality Services Charter may be moulded that may be used uniformly throughout SACU. The specific objectives of the research are: To analyze impact assessment reports and studies conducted on the Tourism and Hospitality Industries for all five SACU member states with the aim of harmonizing standards, costs and border procedures. To ecognize SACU member states&rsquo
schedule of GATS Commitments, especially in the service sectors being investigated, by improving market access, and to recommend minimal infrastructural development levels to be attained for such sectors&rsquo
support. To make recommendations to harness the challenges faced by the said industries into a working document. To calibrate a uniformity of trade standards in these sectors that shall be used by the SACU membership. To ensure that the template is flexible enough for SACU to easily adopt and use in ongoing bilateral negotiations, for example.
El, Moukahal Daria. "Litiges de l'Union européenne devant l'Organe de règlement des différends." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GREAD001.
Full textThe main purpose of the research is to identify the European Union's strategy in the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO and to determine the role that international trade disputes play on the European level. Particularly, the EU participation specificity, compared to other Members of the WTO and the reasons for its involvement, are examined in the frame of an analysis on the manner in which international disputes inscribe into its external policy. We also analyze the EU disputes contribution to the development of international law. The research articulates around two main parts which contribute to the study of coherence of the EU strategy in the DSB.EU policies are frequently attacked in front of the DSB. The EU uses recourse to international trade disputes as an instrument to promote to the international level its non trade values and essential interests and to defend its historical acquis according to main directions of its policies. These EU ambitions explain the specificity of its international trade disputes. The first part of the research analyses the particular nature of international trade disputes of the EU and intends to answer the question to know by what means the EU tries to impose its own experience of trade liberalization onto international level (Part I).In the second part we are analyzing the EU choice of modes of dispute settlement depending on different criteria. So, the dispute settlement means depends on the parties to the conflict and the stakes of the dispute. We also examine if institutional conditions for its participation to settlement of international trade disputes and special mechanisms of Common Commercial Policy existing in the EU are compliant with WTO law requirements, and if they are consequently profitable for efficient defense of the EU trade and non trade interests (Part II)
Rolo, Ana Rita Veiga Freire dos Santos. "A competitividade da China na União Europeia a 15: o desempenho após a adesão à OMC." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/790.
Full textNo decurso dos últimos 20 anos do século passado, a China foi alcançando, gradualmente, uma posição proeminente nas trocas comerciais internacionais e, actualmente, essa trajectória em direcção a uma maior proeminência parece acentuar-se. As históricas relações económicas entre a China e a União Europeia deparam-se hoje com o início de uma nova era. Um dos eventos que esteve no centro desta mudança foi o acesso da China à Organização Mundial do Comércio, em Dezembro de 2001. Como consequência, numerosas barreiras ao comércio e ao investimento encontram-se em processo de supressão e, como resultado, assiste-se à criação de novas oportunidades comerciais e de investimento. No presente trabalho, é efectuada uma análise quantitativa da competitividade da China na UE15 entre 1999 e 2004, pelo estudo de fluxos de comércio e pela interpretação de indicadores de competitividade. É ainda analisado, nas exportações da China para a UE15, o "efeito competitividade" determinado pela metodologia das Quotas de Mercado Constantes (Constant Market Shares Analysis). São também identificados riscos e oportunidades para alguns sectores de actividade considerados relevantes na indústria europeia face ao crescente peso da economia chinesa na economia mundial, relativamente aos quais é, também, efectuada uma análise das tendências e dos desenvolvimentos da indústria chinesa. Adicionalmente, sugerem-se orientações a adoptar por parte da indústria europeia, a fim desta manter ou, mesmo, ganhar vantagens nos sectores abordados.
In the past 20 years, China has, gradually, achieved an outstanding part in international trade and, today, that position is being emphasized. The economic relations between China and the European Union are now on the edge of a new era. One of the events at the core of this change was China's accession to the World Trade Organization, in December, 2001. As a result, barriers to commerce and investment are been suppressed and, consequently, new opportunities in those two areas are emerging. This dissertation analyses the competitiveness of the Chinese economy in EU15 between 1999 and 2004, based on trade patterns and on competitiveness indexes. The exports of China to EU15 are also analysed using the Constant Market Shares Analysis, with special interest on the "competitiveness effect". Opportunities and threats are identified for some European industries; as well as the impact the Chinese economy might have in them, considering trends and developments concerning to those industries. Additionally, some guidelines are suggested for those European industries to maintain or, even, to obtain advantages.
Adje, Couzahon. "L’accord de partenariat de Cotonou : vers une nouvelle forme de coopération entre l'Union Européenne et les pays d'Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique?" Thesis, Paris Est, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PEST0088/document.
Full textThe main purpose of te economic partnership agreement (EPA) is to make the commercial settlements between states or groupe of states cumply with the clauses of the World Trade Organization (WTO) namely the introduction of the principle of the reciprocity in the commercial relations between the European Union (EU)and the African, Caribbean and Pacifique states (ACP).The signing of the economic partnership agreement by some ACP countries,still currently sparks of critisims upon the consequences deriving from the revocation of trade preferences, of wich numerous countries are dependent on
Faye, Ibra. "L'union européenne et les obtacles non tarifaires : analyse de la pratique conventionnelle européenne à l'aune du droit de l'OMC." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCD014.
Full textThe generalized decline of tariffs, combined to the dazzling development of liberalism around theworld, led to an extraordinary expansion of non-tariff barriers. This trend is explained by the desire ofsovereign States to restrict the hold of free trade on their internal policies. By using non-tariff barriers,they implement protectionism which is of two kinds. On the one hand, this protectionism is economic. Itaims to protect national economic operators from foreign competition, assuring them market shares atthe expense of other international operators. This protectionism is unlawful. In another hand, theprotectionism must be licit because non-tariff barriers are erected in order to avoid the negation oflegitimate non-economic objectives. Despite the fact that it promotes liberalism, the European Union, inaccordance with constituent treaties, protects non-market values which are hardly defended in WTO.Achieving this double objective is sought through european conventional practice. The latter isdominated by the conclusion of bilateral agreements with different regions through the world. The coreobjective is to « manage globalization ». In this context, three legal orders interact in the explanation ofthe european conventional practice of non-tariff barriers : the « order of bilateral agreements », the oneof « European Union » and the last of « WTO »
Belebema, Michael Nguatem. "The incorporation of competition policy in the New Economic Partnership Agreement and its impact on regional integration in the Central African sub-region (CEMAC)." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9186_1307086015.
Full textThe Central African Monetary and Economic Community, known by its French acronym CEMAC (Communauté
Economique et Moné
taire de l&rsquo
Afrique Centrale), is one of the oldest regional economic blocs in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states. Its membership comprises of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. It has a population of over 32 million inhabitants in a three million (3 million) square kilometre expanse of land. The changes in the world economy, and especially between the ACP countries, on the one hand, and the European Economic Community-EEC (hereinafter referred to as European Union (EU)), on the other hand, did not leave the CEMAC region unaffected. CEMAC region, like any other regional economic blocs in Africa was faced with the need to readjust in the face of a New International Economic Order (NIEO). The region which had benefited from preferential access to the EU market including financial assistance through the European Development Fund (EDF) had to comply with the rules laid down in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This eventually led to a shift in the EU trade policy, in order to ensure that its trade preferences to developing countries were compatible to the rules and obligations of the WTO.
Benhama, Abderrahmane. "Le régime d'investissements étrangers en Algérie : aspects juridiques." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01D031.
Full textDomestic and foreign investment, private and public, is undoubtedly one of the most important axis in the economic policies of developed and developing countries. The legal regime for foreign investment in Algeria has continued to be the focus of debate. Mainly economic, this is why the Algerian legislator has legislated on the subject, especially from the 1990s, on the occasion of the adoption of Law No. 90-10 of 14 April 1990 on currency and credit. The latter was indeed the beginning of a long process of transition and economic orientation towards the adoption of the market economy. Currently the legal regime of foreign investment in Algeria is governed mainly by the law 16-09 on the promotion of investment, accompanied by a set of implementing decrees. This recent reform of investment law is an important step forward for the management, reception and processing of foreign investment in Algeria, with regard to all the advantages that are granted to investors' profits, as well as the relaxation of foreign companies installation procedures on Algerian soil
BIANCHESSI, ANDREA. "COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE PER LO SVILUPPO: IL RUOLO DELLA SOCIETA' CIVILE NELLE POLITICHE DELLA BANCA MONDIALE E DELL'UNIONE EUROPEA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/307.
Full textThe present PhD thesis considers the relationships between the organisations of civil society and the international institutions in development cooperation's system through the analysis of the World Bank's and the European Union's policies. In the frame of cooperative and dialectic relationships will be verified the functions of the interlocutors of the civil society in relationship with the two international organisations and levels of partnership. Some problematic knots will be analysed such as the evaluation of projects' performance of the organisations of the social society (OSC) in order to verify the added value; the dichotomy between a top-down and bottom-up approach in the process planning of the local development; the representation and effectiveness of the OSC's contribution to the global governance for development. Two empirical cases of projects realised by an OCE will be showed. These are financed by the two above considered institutions in order to favour, through a “micro” analysis, the comprehension of possible differences regard to the theoretical picture, to the procedures of the project cycle and to the quantitative showed survey. Altogether it appears that the cooperation between the OSC and the international institutions has more benefits than costs and leads to a win-win partnership.
BIANCHESSI, ANDREA. "COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE PER LO SVILUPPO: IL RUOLO DELLA SOCIETA' CIVILE NELLE POLITICHE DELLA BANCA MONDIALE E DELL'UNIONE EUROPEA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/307.
Full textThe present PhD thesis considers the relationships between the organisations of civil society and the international institutions in development cooperation's system through the analysis of the World Bank's and the European Union's policies. In the frame of cooperative and dialectic relationships will be verified the functions of the interlocutors of the civil society in relationship with the two international organisations and levels of partnership. Some problematic knots will be analysed such as the evaluation of projects' performance of the organisations of the social society (OSC) in order to verify the added value; the dichotomy between a top-down and bottom-up approach in the process planning of the local development; the representation and effectiveness of the OSC's contribution to the global governance for development. Two empirical cases of projects realised by an OCE will be showed. These are financed by the two above considered institutions in order to favour, through a “micro” analysis, the comprehension of possible differences regard to the theoretical picture, to the procedures of the project cycle and to the quantitative showed survey. Altogether it appears that the cooperation between the OSC and the international institutions has more benefits than costs and leads to a win-win partnership.
Marechal, Romain. "La bioéthique et les contradictions normatives du droit international." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM1058/document.
Full textBioethics in the field of human rights is a recent corpus of the international law. Biolaw instruments' had been elaborated at the crossroads of several normative orders.Their implementation requires the mobilization of a multitude of regulation systems. In the context of a crisis of legal regulation and considering the complexity and fragmentation of international law, this thesis suggests reconstructing a unified ontology of international law based on a critical appreciation of positivist epistemology. Bioethics, conceived as a critical discipline used to question principles which orient and justify human actions, reveals normative contradictions embedded in the structure of legal systems. Based on the study of conflicts between ethical values or between fundamental rights, norms conflict, conflict between legal systems and after having analyzed the methods used by international institutions to neutralize or resolve such contradictions, this thesis demonstrate the necessity to conceive international legal order as a dynamic system composed with heterogeneous norms and institutions linked by legitimacy and effectivity relationships. The evolution of international law can be characterized by non linearity and constitutionalization of international legal order appears as a dialectical process which requires the intervention of multiple international institutions and legal sub-systems
Smola, Filip. "Vybrané aspekty hospodářských vztahů Evropské unie a Čínské lidové republiky na prahu 21. století a jejich reálný dopad na světovou ekonomiku." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-205068.
Full textRuzek, Vincent. "Communautarisation et mondialisation du droit de la propriété intellectuelle." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014REN1G009.
Full textThe internationalization of IP Law, initiated at the end of the 19th century, has taken since the end of the 20th century a brand new twist with its inclusion in the field of multilateral trade disciplines. The signing of the TRIPS agreement marks the emergence of a global IP governance. Indeed, the ambition displayed by the WTO is to supervise the margin of maneuver of its Members in implementing their policies. Although Communitization of IP law started much later, it now has a considerable scope: national protection regimes have been conciliated with the cardinal principles of the Treaty, some important harmonization directives have been enacted, and various European titles of protection have even been created. Our study is designed to show how Communitization, beyond its traditional role of source of law, officiates as a necessary and efficient vector for structuring the European position towards the Globalization of IP Law. In its ascendant side first -- from Local to Global, the Communitization vector plays a role of merging the objectives to be promoted on the international scene. The issue at stake is to shape an IP global framework that corresponds to the system of interests and values of the EU, in accordance with the far-reaching objectives assigned by the Treaty. This merging process is, however, not automatic. In spite of several amendments to the Treaty and of the progress of internal harmonization, various institutional constraints thwart the emergence of a fully integrated external European policy in the field of IP. But it is precisely in light of these constraints that the scope of the achievements of the EU, which in now recognized as a central actor in the global IP governance, must be appreciated. In its down side then -- from Global to Local, the Communitization vector is accompanied by a rise of the European Court of Justice in arbitrating complex normative interactions between national, EU and International IP Laws. A systematic analysis of the resolution by the ECJ of these normative interactions reveals its determination to safeguard the autonomy of the EU legal order, by arranging for significant discretion in implementing international commitments. This margin of appreciation is used to defend an original European model under construction, taking advantage of the flexibilities of the global normative framework
Leroy, Antonia. "Les transformations du droit des pêches face à l'émergence d'un problème juridique : la pêche illicite, non rapportée, non réglementée : Aspects de droit international, européen et national." Thesis, Perpignan, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PERP0043.
Full textFisheries Law is taking its foundation within the Law of the sea. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea addresses fisheries issues through the maritime spaces it establishes. The fight against "illegal, unreported and unregulated" IUU fishing has crept into the Fisheries Law in transformation, which we are considering here, and in particular the latter's ability to eradicate these IUU activities. IUU fishing refers to different forms of fishing activities or methods, or fishing conditions, that need to be clarified. The causes of IUU fishing and the treatment to be applied to it are of full interest to public Law, particularly when it is looking for loopholes. The content and scope of the principles of international Law to combat IUU fishing have not been fully effective since this type of fishing persists. The main responsibility for combating IUU fishing lies with States, which are responsible at a minimum for avoiding IUU fishing in their territorial sea and areas under their jurisdiction (coastal State) and on the high seas by vessels flying their flag (flag State). The involvement of regional fisheries management organisations (RFMOs) or other States or the focus on certain State roles such as the "port State" and the "market State", which facilitate or counter trade in fishery products from IUU activities. This has nevertheless led to the emergence of more restrictive international or national legal measures. In this movement, the European common fisheries policy and its law, both internally and externally, have played a decisive role
DE, BIEVRE Dirk. "The WTO and Domestic Coalitions: The effects of negotiations and enforcement in the European Union." Doctoral thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5163.
Full textExamining Board: Daniel Verdier (Supervisor; European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole) Adrienne Héritier (Co-supervisor; Max-Planck Gesellschaft, Bonn) Petros Mavroidis (Université de Neuchâtel) Patrick Messerlin (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris)
First made available online in June 2012.
In this PhD dissertation I explain how different forms of international trade institutions affect domestic coalition patterns. Negotiated trade policy instruments create incentives for sector-wide interest representation, while administrative instruments elicit interest aggregation on a more product-specific, intra-sectoral level. I provide a rationale why reciprocal trade negotiations foster sector-wide associations, whereas trade rule enforcement elicits intra-sectoral coalitions. In contrast to existing explanations, these propositions can account for coalition patterns during both the GATT 1947, which consisted of a series of trade negotiation rounds, and the WTO (1995-), which combines negotiations with binding administrative enforcement in the form of international dispute settlement. Comprehensive evidence from EU trade policy lobbying confirms the explanatory force of the hypotheses. Sectoral peak associations co-ordinate interest representation during the GATT and WTO Rounds, whereas private interests predominantly organise on an intra-sectoral level when filing petitions for enforcement instruments administered by the European Commission. Exhaustive databases provide evidence about the predominantly intra-sectoral trade associations that lodge complaints with administrative instruments such as Anti-Dumping, market access investigations and WTO dispute settlement, while other sources reveal how sector-wide peak associations organise during negotiation Rounds. I provide supportive evidence from existing research on interest representation in American trade policy, and control for other factors such as industry concentration and non-trade regulation. The shift from negotiations-only to enforcement is further significant for interest representation in four selected sectors of European industry: chemicals, pharmaceuticals, steel and textiles. Although each of these industries has a long history of sector coherence, they all reorganised their membership and representation structure to accommodate for the increased importance of enforcement instruments. The adoption of direct company membership and/or the inclusion of product-specific trade associations accompany the decrease in importance of the sectorwide peak association in a world where the provision of detailed information for judicial enforcement is starting to weigh more than the political clout of sector-wide peak associations during negotiations.
BAETEN, Niels. "No place for the WTO in the EU legal order? : EU individuals as the victims of multilevel trade governance." Doctoral thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/26216.
Full textPDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digital archive of EUI PhD theses
Supervisor: Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
This thesis examines how the EU legal order has adapted to the presence of the World Trade Organization. More specifically, it asks how the European Court of Justice has adapted its case-law on the application of international law within the EU legal order to the particular nature of the WTO system at the intersection of international law and international trade policy. Central to this question is the extent to which the Court has granted direct or indirect effect to provisions of the WTO Agreements and to decisions of the WTO Dispute Settlement Body. Despite almost 40 years of case-law, the effect of WTO law within the EU legal order remains highly relevant. This thesis argues that the ECJ‟s stance vis-à-vis WTO law increasingly inspires the ECJ‟s standard approach to deal with international law, that WTO law provides for a laboratory of more implicit techniques of dialogue between courts and that the EU‟s central focus on respect for the rule of law and fundamental rights urgently calls for a viable solution so as to reconcile the political interests of the EU in the global trading arena with the fundamental rights of private market players. Therefore, the thesis proposes four pathways in order to overcome the identified shortcomings. Particular attention is thereby devoted to the potential of certain developments introduced by the Lisbon Treaty to shed new light on sometimes completely frozen chapters in this long-standing debate.
Wambui, Macheru Maryanne. "East African community-European union economic partnership agreement, to be or not to be? will economic partnership agreement undermine or accelerate trade development within the East African community?" Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3566.
Full textDE, ANDRADE CORRÊA Fabiano. "The implementation of sustainable development in regional trade agreements : a case study on the European Union and MERCOSUR." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/28034.
Full textExamining Board: Professor Marise Cremona, European University Institute (Supervisor) Professor Ernst Ulrich Petersmann, European University Institute Professor Markus Gehring, University of Cambridge, England Professor Adriana Dreyzin de Klor, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.
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This thesis addresses the implementation of sustainable development in the legal frameworks of regional integration agreements (RIAs). Sustainable development is reaffirmed as one of the main priorities of the international community, while poverty eradication and the integration of socio-environmental concerns into all governance levels remain the most pressing challenges to its implementation. Furthermore, the role of law is considered fundamental for sustainable development, but there remains a lack of analysis of how legal frameworks are effectively advancing this objective. In this regard, the thesis focuses on the laws and policies of two of the most important RIAs in force, the European Union and MERCOSUR, with a twofold objective: 1) to analyze how RIAs can provide enabling legal frameworks for the promotion of sustainable development, going beyond trade liberalization and serving as a building block between multilateral goals and their implementation at the national level; 2) to provide case studies of norms and policies developed at the regional level addressing a) poverty eradication and social justice within their internal spheres; b) trade policies and instruments that more effectively integrate socioenvironmental objectives. The research undertaken has also a comparative element that enables the consideration of whether the EU, a more developed regional organization, can provide lessons to MERCOSUR in advancing these specific issues. The conclusions show that RIAs' legal frameworks can facilitate effective translation of sustainable development goals into concrete norms and policies, bridging the divide between a multilateral system of standard setting with low implementation power, and national states with weakened capacity to deal independently with these issues. The RIAs studied have been developing procedural innovations such as 'impact assessment' instruments, and substantive innovations, such as regional development funds aimed at promoting social cohesion internally, and trade instruments that integrate development concerns in their external relations, such as preferential trade systems (GSP) linked to socio-environmental issues and trade agreements that include 'trade and sustainable development' chapters. It also provides evidence that, despite their institutional differences, the development of sustainable development laws and policies within the EU has followed a path that can provide valuable insights for MERCOSUR. Finally, the thesis argues that, despite the tensions that might arise between the implementation of these regional measures and the multilateral trade system rules, regional action might be a way to cope with the difficulty of reaching a global agreement while also reflecting more adequately local concerns. The challenge is to assure coherence and consistency with the international goals, but given the importance of promoting a more sustainable development process, this a task worth pursuing.
Chang, Liang-yin, and 張良印. "A Study on the way of Trading Dispute Settlement and a analysis of Legal Coherence between European Union & World Trade Organization." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/g7bkh3.
Full text南華大學
歐洲研究所
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It did not have an international trade organization or law to be formed a norm before, since the end of 18th century the mercantilism has became much prevails. And a pre-market at early era where economies relied on using barters or exchanges by shells for transaction. And it was taken place in mankind’s early civilization of international trading history. For making a contribution on the international trade liberalization prevalently, it is necessary to set up a criterion of agreement among the international trade activities. And it starting until to the end of 20th century has established the world trade organization since GATT had established. The first point on this thesis is The WTO agreement has lots of members on the world trade organization on present, and whether its legal relationship with European Union law has coherent or not ? which is thus one of main point on my study, because she is not only the most powerful regional economics organization on the world to date but it also the world trade activities developed rapidly now. Secondly, how to solve the trade dispute settlement when the trade conflict has happened, it will be studied above issues continually. Finally, will be proved the Appellate Body /Panel body on WTO had been used what kind of quantitative economics analysis which helped solving some case law during the trade dispute settlement between complaining member and defendant member, otherwise, will be studied how the quantitative economics analysis can take a good effect to help the arbitrator on WTO? Consequently, on this study I have found: 1. The attachments of WTO or others agreements had been necessarily examined by European commission in which WTO agreement would be applied by indirection, but for the preamble on WTO. In general to EU, it is necessary be examined by EU whenever what kinds of International Treaties in which applied in member states. This is so-called indirect application in the International law. 2.In addition to “Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes, DSU” was applied in WTO agreement, also there has three sorts of agreement helps to solve trade dispute that is “the Anti-Dumping agreement, AD ”、“The Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, SCM”、“the Safeguards Agreement, SA”. 3. Using quantitative economic analysis the particular measure such as “Armington elasticity ”、“cross-price elasticity”、“Regression analysis”、“ financial analysis”、“causation and non-causation analysis”, it could be a instrumental in fair adjudication on WTO dispute settlement process.
Nasková, Dominika. "Mezinárodně obchodní aspekty vztahu Světové obchodní organizace a Evropské unie." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-322189.
Full textALKEMA, Ynze. "Regionalism in a multilateral framework :the EEC, the United States and the GATT confronting trade policies, 1957-1962." Doctoral thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5819.
Full textExamining board: Prof. Richard T. Griffiths, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (supervisor) ; Prof. Alan S. Milward, EUI ; Prof. Jaime Reis, EUI ; Prof. Federico Romero, Università di Bologna ; Prof. Klaus Schwabe, RWTH Aachen
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KUILWIJK, Kees Jan. "The European Court of Justice and the GATT dilemma : public interest versus individual rights?" Doctoral thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/4682.
Full textMartinec, Tomáš. "Řešení sporů v rámci WTO." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-352303.
Full textEl, Moukahal Daria. "Litiges de l'Union européenne devant l'Organe de règlement des différends." Thesis, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013GREND011.
Full textThe main purpose of the research is to identify the European Union's strategy in the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO and to determine the role that international trade disputes play on the European level. Particularly, the EU participation specificity, compared to other Members of the WTO and the reasons for its involvement, are examined in the frame of an analysis on the manner in which international disputes inscribe into its external policy. We also analyze the EU disputes contribution to the development of international law. The research articulates around two main parts which contribute to the study of coherence of the EU strategy in the DSB. EU policies are frequently attacked in front of the DSB. The EU uses recourse to international trade disputes as an instrument to promote to the international level its non trade values and essential interests and to defend its historical acquis according to main directions of its policies. These EU ambitions explain the specificity of its international trade disputes. The first part of the research analyses the particular nature of international trade disputes of the EU and intends to answer the question to know by what means the EU tries to impose its own experience of trade liberalization onto international level (Part I). In the second part we are analyzing the EU choice of modes of dispute settlement depending on different criteria. So, the dispute settlement means depends on the parties to the conflict and the stakes of the dispute. We also examine if institutional conditions for its participation to settlement of international trade disputes and special mechanisms of Common Commercial Policy existing in the EU are compliant with WTO law requirements, and if they are consequently profitable for efficient defense of the EU trade and non trade interests (Part II)
Tměj, Jakub. "Vztah právního řádu Evropské unie k právu Světové obchodní organizace." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-344677.
Full textNumbi, Theresia Charles. "The implementation of countervailing measures in Tanzania: challenges and constraints." Thesis, 2013. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3748_1380786678.
Full textAlves, Andreia Sofia Ventura. "Brexit." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/94331.
Full textA invocação do artigo 50.º do Tratado da União Europeia, em março de 2017, tornou oficial a decisão de saída do Reino Unido da União Europeia e formalizou-a perante o resto do Mundo. Depois disso e, dada a atual interdependência e interconexão verificada entre as economias do mundo, o Brexit vem representar mais um choque económico, com um efeito de contágio a nível global, proliferando-se e expandindo-se para lá das fronteiras britânicas. O objetivo da presente dissertação é analisar o provável impacto da saída do Reino Unido da União Europeia, no setor da Regulação e Supervisão dos Mercados Financeiros, considerando o “estatuto especial” que o país detém no bloco comum e as características particulares que tornam a cidade de Londres o principal centro financeiro da Europa. A complexidade do tema e a morosidade do processo de negociação têm contribuído para os sucessivos adiamentos da efetiva data do Brexit, pelo que a incerteza sobre a saída do Reino Unido e os moldes em que a mesma ocorrerá ainda têm uma expressão significativa na discussão política. Não pretendendo esgotar as opções possíveis para a negociação do acordo de saída, esta dissertação apresenta e explora três cenários que podem ser parte do acordo final, analisando os inevitáveis custos e potenciais benefícios a eles associados. Resulta que, nenhuma das opções, em bruto, - fazer parte do Espaço Económico Europeu, negociar um Acordo de Livre Comércio com a UE ou ficar subordinado às leis da Organização Mundial do Comércio – garante o mesmo nível de acesso ao mercado único de que o Reino Unido usufrui atualmente ou lhe devolve a total soberania regulatória e económica. O Brexit pode ter sido fruto de um velho desejo de restauração da independência política, mas talvez se tenha apenas consagrado num impulso momentâneo mal calculado, já que atualmente, o resultado de um novo referendo seria o oposto.
Rei, Tânia Beatriz Freitas. "A lista de jurisdições não cooperantes e a proposta de medidas de reação : problemas de compatibilidade com o direito da OMC." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/36762.
Full textThe present work aims to analyze a legal instrument of the European Union used to combat the phenomenon of tax havens. The first objective is to reflect on the damage caused in a globalized economy by tax havens and why the existence of jurisdictions that practice zero or near zero tax rates is so harmful. Second, we intend to make known a little of the factors that led to the elaboration of this list, the reason for its creation, the objectives that it intends to achieve, and the criteria followed for the inclusion of jurisdictions considered “non-cooperative” in the list. Next, we will see which are the defensive measures that will be applied following the application of this list and we will analyze the law of the World Trade Organization, especially its principles. In this context, we will study the principles and their scope and then, as the core of this work, we will see their compatibility with the European Union's defensive measures. In the end, we will include the conclusions obtained in the course of this work and a brief critique to the construction of the list of non-cooperating jurisdictions with the European Union.
Яременко, Діана Геннадіївна. "Правові проблеми захисту національного товаровиробника в умовах участі в СОТ." Магістерська робота, 2020. https://dspace.znu.edu.ua/jspui/handle/12345/2913.
Full textUA : Квaліфікaційнa рoбoтa склaдaється зі 128 стoрінoк, містить 71 джерело використаної інформації. Cтратегiчним пріоритетом зовнiшньоекономiчної полiтики України є вcтуп до Cвiтової організації торгiвлi (CОТ). Прагнення здобути повноправне членcтво у цiйорганiзацiї продиктоване реалiями cучаcного розвитку, домінуючою тенденцiєю якого протягом останніх деcятилiть є прогресуюча інтернаціоналізація економічних вiдноcин, що знаходить cвоєвтiлення не тiльки у поcиленнi взаємозв’язку та взаємозалежності національних економiк, зроcтаючiй маcштабноcтi та якicнiй змiнi характеру торгово-економiчнихвiдноcин країн, появi нових форм та методів міжнародної торгiвлi, а й актуалiзацiї проблеми захиcту національних економічних iнтереciв. Членами CОТ на cьогоднi є 164 країн, на якi припадає понад 98% обcягуcвiтовоїторгiвлi, ще 30 країн перебувають на рiзних етапах процеcувcтупу. Членcтво в CОТ певною мiрою обмежує можливості реалізації національних економічних інтересів унаcлiдок скорочення спектра iнcтрументiв торгової полiтики, якi ранiше були виключно компетенцією національних урядiв. Заcоби захиcту торгiвлi та національного товаровиробника перебуваючи в центрi торговельної полiтики ЄвропейcькогоCоюзу (ЄC), є комплексом iнcтрументiв торговельного права та важливим механiзмом для забезпечення дотримання загальноприйнятих принципiв i правил мiжнародноїторгiвлi. Актуальнicть проблеми i, водночаc, її недоcтатнярозробленicть зумовили вибiр теми нашого доcлiдження «Правовi проблеми захиcтунацiонального товаровиробника в умовах учаcтi в CОТ». Метою квaлiфiкaцiйної роботи є нaуковеобґрунтувaння тa зaпропонувaння дослідження аналізу і розробки теоретичних засад правового регулювання інноваційної діяльності. Об’єктом дослідження квaлiфiкaцiйної роботиє відносини, що виникають у процесі планування та здійснення інноваційної діяльності. Предметомдослiдження є основні пріоритети правових засад інноваційного розвитку економіки України. Методологічну основу рoбoти склaдaють сукупність загальнонаукових і спеціальних методів: Методологічною основою науковоїроботи є сукупністьметодів і прийом і внаукового пізнання. Під час написання роботи використовувалися загальнонаукові та спеціальніюридичні методи, застосування яких забезпечило досягнення сформульованих мети та завдань дослідження, для забезпечення повноти дослідження, об’єктивності та достовірності отриманих наукових результатів. Так за допомогою методу системно-структурного аналізу розкрито понятійний апарат. Спеціально-юридичний метод було використано для формулювання дефініцій і термінів, що склали понятійно-категоріальний апарат дослідження. Системний методдав можливість комплексно розглянути систему норм права ЄС у контексті предмета дослідження, а історико-правовийметод використано для дослідження становлення та розвитку правового забезпеченнязасобівзахисту товаровиробника.
EN : The qualifying work consists of 128 pages and contains 71 sources of information used. The strategic priority of Ukraine's foreign economic policy is the introduction to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The desire to gain full chlenctvo in this organization dictated realiyamycuchacnoho development tendency which dominates over octannihdecyatylit is prohrecuyuchainternatsionalizatsiya economic vidnocyn that is cvoye realizing not only in the relationship and pocylennivzayemozalezhnocti national economy, zroctayuchiymacshtabnoctiyakicniy variation and nature of trade and economic vidnocyn countries, the emergence of new forms and methods of international trade, but also the updating of the problems of protection of national economic interests. Today, WTO members are 164 countries, accounting for more than 98% of world trade, and 30 more countries are at different stages of the process of accession. Membership in the WTO to some extent limits the possibilities of realization of national economic interests due to the shortening of the spectrum of trade policy instruments, which were previously exclusively the competence of national governments. At the same time, at the global level, new regulatory and protective mechanisms and methods are being perfected and created, which are necessary to understand, master and use them for the effective implementation of national economic interventions in international conditions. The urgency of the problem and, at the same time, its insufficient development, led to the choice of the topic of our study «Legal Problems of Protection of a National Commodity Producer in the Conditions of Participation in the WTO». The purpose of the qualification work is to provide a scientific justification for the study of the analysis and development of the theoretical foundations of the legal regulation of innovative activity. The object of the study of qualification work is the relationships that arise in the process of planning and implementation of innovation activities. The subject of research is the main priorities of the legal foundations of innovative development of the Ukrainian economy. The methodological basis of the work consists of a set of general scientific and special methods: The methodological basis of scientific work is a set of methods and techniques of scientific knowledge. During the writing of the paper, general scientific and special legal methods were used, the application of which ensured the achievement of the formulated goals and objectives of the research, to ensure the completeness of the research, objectivity and reliability of the obtained scientific results.Thus, using the method of system-structural analysis, the conceptual apparatus is disclosed. The special legal method was used to formulate definitions and terms that made up the conceptual categorical apparatus of the study.
ROZMILEROVÁ, Monika. "Ochrana práv k duševnímu vlastnictví v mezinárodním obchodě." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-252087.
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