The EC REACH regulation was enforced the 1st June 2007. REACH requires undertakings to prove the environmental and sanitary innocuousness of their chemical substances. The implementation of this regulation involves the production and exchange of a significant amount of technical and competitive...

The aim of this article is to describe the banking union and its importance for the EU, its pillars, and principles on which it is based, its goal and contribution to the stronger financial system in Europe. We focus especially on the supervision system in the EU and possibilities of financing...

While street surveillance technologies such as Google Street View are deployed with no discriminatory intent, there is selective scrutiny applied to the published imagery by the anonymous crowd. Disproportionately directed at women and members of ethnic minority groups, this scrutiny means the...

Technical regulation belongs to means with a strong influence on international trade flows. The regulation is a barrier to trade that is autonomously implemented by governments and becomes the most used non-tariff barrier for protection of domestic markets. Technical regulation has both positive...

Cet article examine les problèmes posés par la coexistence, difficile, entre les politiques du commerce extérieur et de la concurrence, dans le contexte du GATT et de son héritière, l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC). Elle montre que ces problèmes, s'ils sont traditionnels, se...