Regulating Trade in Services in the EU and the WTO

Trust, Distrust and Economic Integration

Ioannis Lianos, Okeoghene Odudu

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781107008649
• eBook ISBN: 9781139334990
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: International Law
• Index: Law

This volume assesses the viability of various theories of economic integration that take into account the legal, economic, political and social challenges of incorporating free trade with retaining the plurality of social welfare standards and consumer protection. Chapters cover the governance of trade in services at the European and global level; studies on the recent Services Directive and how this interacts with the principle of managed mutual recognition and harmonization in different sectors of trade in services (social services, financial services); the recent case law of the European Courts on the enforcement of the principle of free movement of services and how this accommodates various national public interest concerns; and the interaction of the freedom to provide services with fundamental rights, including social rights. The operation of the principle of managed mutual recognition in other economic integration regimes, in particular in the context of the WTO, is also discussed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• REGULATING TRADE IN SERVICES IN THE EU AND THE WTO
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• CONTRIBUTORS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• TABLE OF CASES
• Introduction
• PART I: The ‘trust’ theory of integration
• 1: Trust, distrust and economic integration: setting the stage
• PART II: Unpacking the premises: mutual recognition, harmonization
• 2: Forms of mutual recognition in the field of services
• 3: Trust and mutual recognition in the Services Directive
• 4: Mutual recognition in the global trade regime: lessons from the EU experience
• 5: Public procurement and public services in the EU
• PART III: The interaction between pluralism, trust and economic integration
• 6: Shifting narratives in European economic integration: trade in services, pluralism and trust
• 7: Trusting the Poles? Mark 2: towards a regulatory peace theory in a world of mutual recognition
• PART IV: Private parties and the economic integration process
• 8: Who’s afraid of the total market? On the horizontal application of the free movement provisions in EU law
• 9: The EU Services Directive and the mandate for the creation of professional codes of conduct
• PART V: Seeds of distrust: regulatory competition and diversity in the social sphere
• 10: Transborder provision of services and ‘social dumping’: rights-based mutual trust in the establishment of the Internal Market
• 11: Reconceptualizing the constitution of Europe’s post-national constellation – by dint of conflict of laws
• 12: Fundamental rights as sources of trust and voices of distrust in the European Internal Market
• PART VI: Extensions: the relevance of the ‘trust theory’ of integration in the context of the WTO
• 13: I now recognize you (and only you) as equal: an anatomy of (mutual) recognition agreements in the GATS
• 14: ‘Importing’ regulatory standards and principles into WTO dispute settlement: the challenge of interpreting the GATS arrangements on telecommunications
• INDEX