Thies, A. (2013) EU membership of the WTO: international trade disputes and judicial protection of individuals by EU Courts. Global Constitutionalism, 2(2), pp. 237-261. (doi: 10.1017/S2045381713000105)
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Abstract
The European Union (EU) is embedded in a pluralistic legal context because of the EU and its Member States’ treaty memberships and domestic laws. Where EU conduct has implications for both the EU’s international trade relations and the legal position of individual traders, it possibly affects EU and its Member States’ obligations under the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO law) as well as the Union’s own multi-layered constitutional legal order. The present paper analyses the way in which the European Court of Justice (ECJ) accommodates WTO and EU law in the context of international trade disputes triggered by the EU. Given the ECJ’s denial of direct effect of WTO law in principle, the paper focuses on the protection of rights and remedies conferred by EU law. It assesses the implications of the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) – which tolerates the acceptance of retaliatory measures constraining traders’ activities in sectors different from those subject to the original trade dispute (Bananas and Hormones cases) – for the protection of ‘retaliation victims’. The paper concludes that governmental discretion conferred by WTO law has not affected the applicability of EU constitutional law but possibly shapes the actual scope of EU rights and remedies where such discretion is exercised in the EU’s general interest.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Special issue: Changing subjects: Rights, remedies and responsibilities of individuals under global legal pluralism |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Thies, Dr Anne |
| Authors: | Thies, A. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Law |
| Journal Name: | Global Constitutionalism |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISSN: | 2045-3817 |
| ISSN (Online): | 2045-3825 |
| Published Online: | 28 June 2013 |
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