The essays in this volume attempt to explore and elucidate some of the legal and constitutional complexities of the relationship between the EU and the WTO, focusing particularly on the impact of the latter and its relevance for the former. The effect of WTO norms is evident across a broad range of European economic and social policy fields, affecting regulatory and distributive policies alike. A number of significant areas have been selected in this book to exemplify the scope and intensity of impact, including EC single market law, external trade, structural and cohesion funding, cultural policy, social policy, and aspects of public health and environmental policy. Certain chapters seek to examine the legal and political points of intersection between the two legal orders, and many of the essays explore in different ways the normative dimension of the relationship between the EU and the WTO and the legitimacy claims of the latter.
This book brings together a series of essays examining the legal and constitutional relationship between the EU and the WTO. It examines the way in which WTO law affects decision-making in the EU, and the way it affects market integration and market regulation. More generally, it examines the implications of WTO membership for constitutional theory in the EU. The essays look at, and beyond, the role of the European Court in enforcing WTO law, and consider the implications of the WTO's own dispute settlement system for the EU, as well as the responses of other institutional actors in the EU. The book covers a range of substantive areas of EU law, including cultural policy, competition law, trade in goods and services, regional policy, social policy, human rights, and the EC's external relations.
