Environmental Protection versus Trade Liberalization : Finding the Balance
An examination of the legality of environmental regulation under international trade law regimes
Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of laws regulating the environment. Such laws aim to protect the environment of the legislating country and increasingly, the environment beyond its borders. While the objectives of these rules appear to be laudable ones, environmental regulation is frequently criticized as trade-restrictive and protectionist. In addition, attempts to regulate foreign production processes are attacked as interfering with the sovereign right of foreign countries to de...
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An examination of the legality of environmental regulation under international trade law regimes.
Éditeur : Presses universitaires Saint-Louis Bruxelles
Lieu d’édition : Bruxelles
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 28 mai 2019
ISBN numérique : 978-2-8028-0351-5
DOI : 10.4000/books.pusl.13383
Collection : Travaux et recherches | 27
Année d’édition : 1993
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-8028-0085-9
Nombre de pages : 193
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Robert Hotyat
Foreword to Mrs. Sandra Lee Walker’s workEnvironmental Protection versus Trade Liberalization: finding the Balance
Nicolas de Sadeleer
RésuméNicolas de Sadeleer
SamenvattingRecent years have witnessed a proliferation of laws regulating the environment. Such laws aim to protect the environment of the legislating country and increasingly, the environment beyond its borders. While the objectives of these rules appear to be laudable ones, environmental regulation is frequently criticized as trade-restrictive and protectionist. In addition, attempts to regulate foreign production processes are attacked as interfering with the sovereign right of foreign countries to determine their own standards of environmental management. Environmental protection goals may also hinder international trade and consequently, become vulnerable to legal challenge under international trade law.
The manner in which international trade law weighs the competing objectives of environmental protection and trade liberalization is the subject of this book. The experience of the European Economic Community in this regard provides a useful backdrop against which the treatment of environmental regulation under the GATT can be both examined and improved. The author concludes that GATT reforms, such as the incorporation of environmental principles into GATT jurisprudence, are critical to ensuring the legality of legitimate environmental protection measures. Such efforts would serve to safeguard both the environment and a more stable international trading system.
The study was financed by the Brussels Capital Region through the Visiting Scientist's Programme.
Holds a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Studies from Queen's University (Canada). She has practised law with a Toronto law firm, and more recently, has worked for the Ontario Government as both a trade policy advisor and an environmental policy analyst. Ms. Walker spent seven months in Brussels, Belgium in 1991- 1992 as a participant in the Visiting Scientist's Programme offered by the Brussels Capital Region, joining the Centre d'étude du droit de l'environnement (CEDRE) at the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis as a research associate.
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