Week 23: Health, TBT, SPS, GMOs
Lectures, case studies and group exercises on the implementation and application of GATT general exceptions and of the Agreements on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement). The course addresses fundamental issues of the relationship between national or regional regulatory powers and disciplines of WTO law. Different approaches to regulating TBT and SPS measures and current issues, such as GMOs, are discussed in a transnational context.