Foreword / WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo -- Acknowledgements -- Making trade multilateralism work for all : the role of wto accessions / Alexei Kireyev and Chiedu Osakwe -- WTO accessions and the new trade multilateralism -- The WTO and the changing state of the global economy / Alexei...

Analytical preliminaries -- The lack of direct effect of DSB rulings -- Dispensability of direct effect for EU liability -- DSB ruling and the protection of individual rights -- Identifiability of and individual right -- Further liability requirements -- Damage claims and fundamental rights --...

International trade and law of the WTO -- The World Trade Organization -- WTO dispute settlement -- Most favoured nation treatment -- National treatment -- Tariff barriers -- Non-tariff barriers -- General and security exceptions -- Economic emergency exceptions -- Regional trade exceptions --...

"Gas transit is network-dependent and it cannot be established without the existence of pipeline infrastructure in the territory of a transit State or the ability to access this infrastructure. Nevertheless, at an inter-regional level, there are no sufficient pipeline networks allowing gas to...

"The WTO dispute settlement system has become one of the most dynamic, effective and successful international dispute settlement systems in the world over the past twenty years. This second edition of A Handbook on the WTO Dispute Settlement System has been compiled by the dispute settlement...