Green Trade and Fair Trade in and with the EU

Process-based Measures within the EU Legal Order

Laurens Ankersmit

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781107191228
• eBook ISBN: 9781108129053
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: International Law
• Index: Law

This book explores how EU law constrains the freedom of the EU, the Member States, and private bodies to adopt measures that seek to protect social and environmental interests abroad by placing conditions on production processes in other states. The permissibility of such process-based measures has been examined primarily within the World Trade Organization (WTO) context, but the challenges that they present are equally for the EU internal market system. Ankersmit identifies three core challenges posed by process-based measures from an EU law perspective: extraterritoriality, unilateralism and the competitive and democratic problems created by private rule-making. It examines these issues in the context of free movement, competition, public procurement, and EU tax law. This book will appeal to academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in trade and environment, the social impact of trade law, and European and international market regulation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• Series Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Cases
• Table of Legislation
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 EU Process-Based Measures
• 2 Member State Process-Based Measures as Restrictions on the Free Movement of Goods
• 3 Extraterritoriality within the Free Movement of Goods
• 4 Unilateralism within the Free Movement of Goods
• 5 Process-Based Measures and EU Competition Law
• Conclusion
• Index