Almost every day newspapers carry stories which implicate the SPS Agreement. From avian flu and GMOs to 'mad honey disease', the trade dimension of these is never far from the surface. The SPS Agreement is concerned with trade and food safety regulation, and with the regulation of pests and diseases in agriculture. This book offers a legal commentary on this agreement, and on the case law which has grown up around it. It examines how the agreement has turned to science, as well as the operation of the SPS Committee as a site for transnational governance. It also examines the agreement's attempt to establish a framework to draw together the diverse institutions and regulatory regimes already populating the food safety arena.
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This book offers an article by article legal commentary on the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the SPS Agreement). This allows WTO members to implement barriers to trade in order to protect public health where there is sufficient evidence. This book also looks at the case law which has grown up around the SPS Agreement.
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INTRODUCTION
Professor Scott's The WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: A Commentary is a gem: a well thematized guide that belongs on the shelves of all those with an academic or practical interest in the workings of the Agreement. Presented in a clear and scholarly style, this text hits its mark as one of the series of Oxford Commentaries on the GATT/WTO Agreements...Professor Scott's book if thoroughly to be recommended. The themes of the work are pragmatically and sensitively selected, and the text readable and helpful. A good balance is maintained between explanation and deeper investigation of significant points.
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`Professor Scott's The WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: A Commentary is a gem: a well thematized guide that belongs on the shelves of all those with an academic or practical interest in the workings of the Agreement. Presented in a clear and scholarly style, this text hits its mark as one of the series of Oxford Commentaries on the GATT/WTO Agreements...Professor Scott's book if thoroughly to be recommended. The themes of the work are pragmatically and sensitively selected, and the text readable and helpful. A good balance is maintained between explanation and deeper investigation of significant points.' Caroline E. Foster, World Trade Review 8/3, 2009
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Critically examines the GMO decision - one of the most controversial topics addressed by the WTO so far Considers contradictions that arise when compliance with the SPS Agreement appears to fall foul of the WTO's Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement Examines the 'Developing Country Dimension' analysing the ability of public health barriers to trade playing a part in aiding development in third world countries
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Joanne Scott is Professor of European Law, University College London. She joined UCL in July 2005 having taught previously at the University of Cambridge and Clare College, Cambridge. She is a regular visiting professor at Columbia Law School, and is visiting at Harvard Law School during 2005/06.
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Critically examines the GMO decision - one of the most controversial topics addressed by the WTO so far Considers contradictions that arise when compliance with the SPS Agreement appears to fall foul of the WTO's Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement Examines the 'Developing Country Dimension' analysing the ability of public health barriers to trade playing a part in aiding development in third world countries
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199563869
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
554 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
360

Forfatter

Biographical note

Joanne Scott is Professor of European Law, University College London. She joined UCL in July 2005 having taught previously at the University of Cambridge and Clare College, Cambridge. She is a regular visiting professor at Columbia Law School, and is visiting at Harvard Law School during 2005/06.