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EU Regulatory Policy and World Trade

Should all EU Institutions Care What the World Thinks?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2015

Tamara Perišin
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Abstract

Divergent regulatory practices in WTO compliance and external trade effects – The regulatory policy of EU ‘legislative’ institutions – The (de)regulatory policy of the ECJ – Explaining diverging regulatory practices – Policies behind diverging regulatory practices – Different institutional interaction in diverging regulatory practices – Should all EU institutions care what the world thinks?

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European Unionregulatory policyWTO compliance
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European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , May 2015 , pp. 99 - 120
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Prof. Dr. Tamara Perišin, MJur (Oxon), Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. Thanks to Harvard Law School where a part of this research was conducted within the postdoctoral visitors’ programme; to Marise Cremona, Tamara Ćapeta, James Flett, Petros Mavoridis, Donald Regan, Siniša Rodin, Mark Wu, and Derrick Wyatt for their support of this research project, useful discussions on this topic or for comments on earlier drafts; to Aleksandra Čar and Sam Koplewicz for their research assistance; and to the participants of the EUI-CLEER joint conference ‘Trade liberalisation and standardisation’, and of the Harvard European Law Association lecture series, for their valuable feedback.

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2 Art. 21(2) TEU.

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32 Council Regulation 1007/2009/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on trade in seal products, OJ 2009 L 286/36; Commission Regulation 737/2010/EU of 10 August 2010 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Regulation (EC) 1007/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on trade in seal products, OJ 2010 L 216/1.

33 EC – Certain Measures Prohibiting the Importation and Marketing of Seal Products, Request for Consultations by Canada, WT/DS369/1.

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41 See ECJ 10 September 1996, Case C-61/94, Commission v Germany, para. 52 on the interpretative effect of international agreements; see ECJ 16 June 1998, Case C-53/96, Hermès International v FHT Marketing Choice BV on the interpretative effect of WTO law.

42 ECJ 12 March 2002, Joined Cases C-27/00 and C-122/00, The Queen v Omega Air and Omega Air v Irish Aviation Authority.

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45 Omega Air, supra n. 42, paras. 39-45, 54-61.

46 Omega Air, supra n. 42, paras. 40, 41.

47 Fediol, supra n. 38, Nakajima, supra n. 38.

48 Omega Air, supra n. 42, paras. 93, 94.

49 ECJ 21 December 2011, Case C-366/10, Air Transport Association of America v Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

50 For an analysis of the ECJ’s decision in this case, see Gattini, A., ‘Between Splendid Isolation and Tentative Imperialism: The EU’s Extension of Its Emission Trading Scheme to International Aviation and the ECJ’s Judgment in the ATA Case’, 61 ICLQ (2012) p. 977CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Bogojević, S., ‘Legalising Environmental Leadership: A Comment on the CJEU’S Ruling in C-366/10 on the Inclusion of Aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme’, 24 Journal of Environmental Law (2012) p. 345CrossRefGoogle Scholar; see also Scott, J., ‘The Multi-Level Governance of Climate Change’, in P. Craig and G. de Búrca, The Evolution of EU Law (Oxford University Press 2011) p. 805Google Scholar; Scott, J. and Rajamani, L., ‘EU Climate Change Unilateralism’, 23 EJIL (2012) p. 469CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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52 ATA, supra n. 49.

53 Opinion of AG Kokott 6 October 2011, Case C-366/10, Air Transport Association of America v Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. AG Kokott mentions WTO law incidentally when explaining the effects of international law in the EU legal order (paras. 70, 71, 100).

54 See L. Bartels, ‘The Inclusion of Aviation in the EU ETS: WTO Law Considerations; Trade and Sustainable Energy Series’, with a Commentary by R. Howse, Trade and Sustainable Energy Series (April 2012), Issue Paper No. 6. See also Gehring, M., ‘Air Transport Association of America v Energy Secretary before the European Court of Justice: Clarifying Direct Effect and Providing Guidance for Future Instrument Design for a Green Economy in the EU’, 21 RECIEL (2012) p. 149Google Scholar. J. Coelho, ‘EU Aviation Carbon Spat Seen Unlikely to Reach WTO’, <www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/01/us-wto-aviation-carbon-idUSBRE8500WQ20120601>, visited 3 April 2014.

55 GATS Annex on Air Transport Services. For an analysis suggesting that this GATS Annex might allow the provisions of the Aviation Directive to be analysed under the GATS, see Meltzer, J., ‘Climate Change and Trade - The EU Aviation Directive and the WTO’, 15 JIEL (2012) p. 111CrossRefGoogle Scholar at p. 123-128.

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65 ICAO Resolution A38-18: Consolidated statement of continuing ICAO policies and practices related to environmental protection – Climate change, November 2013, particularly Art. 19.

66 For an analysis of this, see Princen, supra n. 16, p. 563-564.

67 Prelex legislative history at <ec.europa.eu/prelex/detail_dossier_real.cfm?CL=en&DosId=106242>, visited 3 April 2014, where DG11 marks DG Environment.

68 Prelex legislative history at <ec.europa.eu/prelex/detail_dossier_real.cfm?CL=en&DosId=111137> and <ec.europa.eu/prelex/detail_dossier_real.cfm?CL=en&DosId=11501>, visited 3 April 2014 where DG01 marks DG Trade.

69 1978th Council meeting – Environment, 9 December 1996, PRES/96/360; 2017th Council meeting – Environment, Luxembourg, 19/20 June 1997, PRES/97/204.

70 2024th Council meeting – General Affairs, 22 July 1997, PRES/97/246.

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72 The Regulation was adopted on the basis of Treaty provisions on the CCP and the environment, Arts. 113 and 130s EC, later 133, 175 EC, now 207, 192 TFEU.

73 The legal basis for these agreements was Art. 228 EC, later 300 EC, now 218 TFEU.

74 1996 Commission Report, supra n. 21.

75 Commission Directive 97/18/EC of 17 April 1997 postponing the date after which animal tests are prohibited for ingredients or combinations of ingredients of cosmetic products, OJ 1997, L 114/43; Commission Directive 2000/41/EC of 19 June 2000 postponing for a second time the date after which animal tests are prohibited for ingredients or combinations of ingredients of cosmetic products, OJ 2000 L 145/25.

76 1996 Commission Report, supra n. 21, at p. 9.

77 E-0949/98 Written Question to the Commission ‘Impact on animal protection of the GATT/WTO’ by Mark Watts (PSE), 30 March 1998; and Answer to Written Question E-0949/98 given by Sir Leon Brittan on behalf of the Commission, 7 May 1998. See on this de Búrca and Scott, supra n. 18, p. 8.

78 I Report on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive amending for the seventh time Council Directive 76/768/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to cosmetic products (COM(2000) 189 - C5-0244/2000 - 2000/0077(COD)), Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, FINAL A5-0095/2001, 21 March 2001.

79 Council Directive 81/602/EEC of 31 July 1981 concerning the prohibition of certain substances having a hormonal action and of any substances having a thyrostatic action, OJ 1981 L 222/32; Council Directive 88/146/EEC of 7 March 1988 prohibiting the use in livestock farming of certain substances having a hormonal action, OJ 1988 L 70/16; Council Directive 88/299/EEC of 17 May 1988 on trade in animals treated with certain substances having a hormonal action and their meat, as referred to in Article 7 of Directive 88/146/EEC, OJ 1998 L 128/36.

80 EC – Hormones, Panel Report, supra n. 30, paras. II.28-29.

81 EC – Hormones, Panel Report, supra n. 30, para. II.29.

82 EC – Hormones, Panel Report, supra n. 30, paras. II.31-32.

83 Proposal for a Regulation, supra n. 36.

84 Perišin, supra n. 34.

85 Two MEPs posed a question on the WTO dispute to the Commission E-0373/08 Written Question to the Commission ‘The challenge of seal bans in the WTO’ by Jens Holm (GUE/NGL) and Kartika Tamara Liotard (GUE/NGL), 4 February 2008.

86 For a full list of parliamentary questions on seals and WTO compliance in the 7th parliamentary term, see <www.europarl.europa.eu/sidesSearch/sipadeMapUrl.do?L=EN&PROG=QP&SORT_ORDER=DA&S_REF_QP=%&S_RANK=%&MI_TEXT=seal+and+wto&F_MI_TEXT=seal+and+wto&LEG_ID=7>, visited 3 April 2014; and in particular see E-002592/2011 Question for written answer to the Commission ‘Measures against the annual commercial seal hunt in Canada’ by Bart Staes (Verts/ALE), 17 March 2011; E-003975/11 Question for written answer to the Commission ‘Seal culling in Canada’ by Oreste Rossi (EFD), 29 April 2011; Joint answer to written questions E-002592/11, E-003975/11 given by Mr Potočnik on behalf of the Commission, 29 June 2011; E-003088/2012 Question for written answer to the Commission ‘CETA Agreement’ by Cristiana Muscardini (PPE), 21 March 2012; Answer given to written question E-003088/2012 by Mr De Gucht on behalf of the Commission, 3 May 2012.

87 European Union Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011, Pub. L. No. 112-200, 126 Stat. 1477 (2012).

This Act can be used as a tool in a trade war, but it also gives the US Secretary of Transportation a mandate to negotiate a global agreement on aviation emissions, which is in fact what the EU would like to happen.

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96 E.g. despite the EU’s strong opposition to the use of ractopamine as animal feed and the corresponding meat ban, the Codex Alimentarius Commission approved minimal residues of this substance in meat, with a controversial vote 69-67, and 7 abstentions. EU Press Release Database ‘Codex alimentarius: statement by the EU on ractopamine’, News from the European Commission’s Midday Briefing, <europa.eu/rapid/midday-express-06-07-2012.htm>, visited 3 April 2014; Alemanno, A. and Capodieci, G., ‘Testing the Limits of Global Food Governance: The Case of Ractopamine’, 3 European Journal of Risk Regulation (2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, <ssrn.com/abstract=2133908> visited 3 April 2014.