Services Liberalization in the Eu and the Wto - Concepts, Standards and Regulatory Approaches

"Services liberalization is just as much a hot potato within the European Union as it is within the WTO. In this work Markus Klamert offers a stimulating examination of how the EU and the WTO have coped with market liberalization and with the developmentof regulatory standards. His analysis almost recalls the perceived relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States (two nations divided by a common language). While the EU and WTO regimes display manifest differences, the language of marketaccess, discrimination, justifi cation and harmonization can be seen as being hewn from the same roots. This work seeks to lift the veil of ignorance about these similarities and to encourage more cross-fertilization than has hitherto occurred"--

List of contents

1. WTO Law on Services: a starter kit; 2. The relation between the EU and WTO: differentiation and participation; 3. EU Primary Law on Services: fundamentals and delimitations; 4. Deconstructing the EU Law on Services and Establishments; 5. Variatio delectat? Different regulatory approaches for different services; 6. The Services Directive: innovation and fragmentation; 7. The implementation of the Services Directive: a Herculean effort with poor results?; 8. Principles of Services Law in the EU and the WTO: comparing the comparable; 9. Quo vadit?: Conclusions and recommendations.

About the author

Marcus Klamert is a legal officer with the Executive Office for Constitutional Matters of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and a lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Griller, Marcus Klamert, Marcus (Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien Klamert, Klamert Marcus
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2014
• EAN: 9781107034594
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03459-4
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy; Cambridge Studies in European; Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy; Cambridge Studies in European
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, LAW / International, Commercial law, EU (European Union), International economic & trade law