telecommunications industry. We analyse in particular the role of the WTO agreement in furthering liberalization around the world, and … NAFTA. The WTO agreement comes out of the analysis quite well. It is an important instrument of protecting and safeguarding … Telekommunikation. Speziell fragen wir nach dem Beitrag des WTO-Abkommens zur weltweiten Liberalisierung und nach dem Schutz, den es …

The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for … heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only … unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to structure WTO provisions and WTO case rulings so that their application …

This paper discusses allocation of burden of proof in environmental disputes in the WTO system. Besides laying down the … natural principles that (i) the complainant carries the burden to (ii) make a prima facie case that its claim holds, WTO …

The basic legal instrument in the WTO Agreement regulating domestic environmental policies is the GATT National … environment, in a situation where imports may cause environmental damage. The paper finds that there may be a tension between NT … and environmental concerns, but that this is not likely to arise in the context of severe threats to the environment. In …

with their WTO obligations may well arise in implementing the Kyoto Protocol, given that Article 2 of the Protocol gives … respect to the WTO consistency and the conditions under which border taxes can be adjusted to accommodate a loss of …-labels and government procurement policies, and explores the potential interaction between these domestic climate polices and WTO …

effects for third countries, and discusses how TAFTA fits into the WTO institutional rule system for the world economy and how … integration into the WTO framework. …

Organization (WTO), and Appellate Body decisions. The authors argue that border measures both import restrictive measures and … challenged in the WTO. Given the prospect of foreseeable conflicts with WTO rules, the authors suggest that key WTO members … are imposed in a manner broadly consistent with core WTO principles even if a technical violation of WTO law could occur …

effects of these SPS measures. WTO Notifications under the SPS Agreement are utilized in this contribution for measuring trade … impacts of sanitary and phytosanitary trade barriers. We explain the WTO data base on SPS notifications. Then, a gravitation …