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Presents transparency as a key tool for managing trade disputes on regulatory barriers between WTO Members.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Part I. Why The SPS and TBT Agreements? A Legal Discipline Favouring Regulatory Quality: 1. Legal discipline on domestic regulations in SPS and TBT agreements: finding a balance between regulatory autonomy and free trade; 2. Transparency as a core discipline under the SPS and TBT agreements; 3. Regulatory co-operation under the SPS and TBT agreements; Part II. Regulatory Co-operation under the SPS and TBT Agreements: 4. The steps in the pyramid from domestic measures to disputes; 5. The content of the pyramid: what do members need to know to prevent disputes from rising?; Part III. Transparency as a Complement for Dispute Settlement: Information and Dialogue To Favour a Mutually Acceptable Solution: 6. Transparency and disputes: where is the difference?; 7. The challenge of climbing the 'pyramid' leading up to disputes; 8. The 'transparency staircase' to climb the dispute settlement pyramid; 9. Is the current interaction between transparency and dispute settlement optimal?; Conclusion.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Marianna B. Karttunen has worked as a Policy Analyst at the OECD Regulatory Policy Division, focusing on international regulatory co-operation since February 2016. In this position, she carried out innovative policy work on international regulatory co-operation, including leading the first in-depth country reviews on the subject. Previously, she held a position as Policy Adviser at the OECD G8-G20 Sherpa Office and conducted research at the Trade and Environment Division of the WTO. Karttunen has a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute and has published in leading journals on international trade law.
Zusammenfassung
Underlines the benefits of transparency in preventing disputes between WTO Members by enabling regulatory co-operation between them. Of interest to academics of international trade law, government representatives engaged in trade and regulatory policy, and international organisation staff willing to improve transparency in their organisation.
Zusatztext
'Marianna Karttunen's valuable book is the first sustained analysis of the specific trade concerns process in the two WTO standards committees, truly the real jewel in the crown of WTO conflict management. Karttunen also demonstrates the purposes of regulatory transparency and cooperation, including how important it is for domestic stakeholders. Running through the book is the awareness that far from a mechanical exercise of interest only to officials, firms too need to be informed about domestic regulation in other countries, and they need opportunities to engage with officials on the trade effects of these regulations. Discussion in the committees on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) is often motivated, Karttunen shows, by concerns raised by stakeholders who have learned about a new regulation from a WTO notification.' Robert Wolfe, Professor Emeritus, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
