The planned regulatory cooperation between the European Union and Canada and the USA according to the CETA and TTIP drafts. legal opinion commissioned by the Chamber of Labour, Vienna

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Link(s) zu Dokument(en):E-Medien Publikation
Hauptverfasser: Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien (Herausgebendes Organ), Stoll, Peter-Tobias (VerfasserIn), Holterhus, Till Patrik (VerfasserIn), Gött, Henner (VerfasserIn)
Format: Monograph
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: AK Wien 2015
Schlagworte:
Europäische Union
Freihandelsabkommen
USA
Kanada
EU
Studien
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Executive Summary
  • Overview of Contents
  • Note on the citation of CETA and TTIP
  • Names of institutions relevant to CETA and TTIP
  • 1. Engagement, Scope of the Study, Methodology
  • 2. Introduction: Trade Liberalization and the Safeguarding of Protection Policies
  • 2.1. Trade liberalization and protection policies in the EU
  • 2.2. The WTO system does not safeguard protection policies
  • 2.3. Free trade agreements as opportunities for liberalization and protection policies?
  • 2.4. Transatlantic regulatory cooperation: goals and divergences
  • 2.5. Key questions addressed in this study
  • 3. The System of Regulatory Cooperation under CETA and TTIP
  • 3.1. Regulatory elements
  • 3.2. Is there any obligations to cooperate on regulations?
  • 3.3. Institutions and decision-making
  • 3.3.1. Primary and subcommittees under CETA and TTIP
  • 3.3.2. Decision-making
  • 3.3.2.1. Binding decisions
  • 3.3.2.2. Is national consent required?
  • 3.4. Activities and methods of regulatory cooperation
  • 3.5. Issues and sectors included
  • 3.6. Regulations included
  • 3.7. Dispute resolution
  • 4. Safeguarding of European Protective Standards under Regulatory Cooperation
  • 4.1. Exceptions
  • 4.2. Safeguarding of European protective standards through the right to regulate?
  • 4.3. Protection by making "high protective standards" a goal?
  • 4.4. Justification of regulations through the precautionary principle?
  • 4.5. Chapter on sustainable development and labor standards
  • 5. Democratic Legitimacy and Regulatory Cooperation
  • 5.1. Democratic concerns - at the EU level
  • 5.1.1. Conveying democratic legitimacy
  • 5.1.2. Legitimation of foreign affairs
  • 5.1.3. Living agreements and the required degree of democratic legitimacy
  • 5.2. Competency concerns - the Member State level
  • 5.3. Possible solutions
  • 5.3.1. At the EU level
  • 5.3.2. At the Member State level
  • 6. Civil Society and Regulatory Cooperation
  • 6.1. Integrating civil society in CETA and TTIP
  • 6.2. Deficient integration
  • 7. Need for Clarification and Recommendations
  • 7.1. Clarification and modifications of the drafts of the agreements
  • 7.1.1. Institutions, resolutions and decision-making powers
  • 7.1.2. General regulatory chapter
  • 7.1.3. Precautionary principle
  • 7.1.4. Aspects of sustainable development (labor and environment)
  • 7.2. Intra-European level recommendations
  • 7.2.1. The EU Parliament
  • 7.2.2. The Member States

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