Trading away public policy space?. Assessing the risk of enhanced domestic regulation disciplines in trade and investment agreements for public interest regulation

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Hauptverfasser: European Federation of Public Service Unions (SchirmherrIn), Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien (SchirmherrIn, Herausgebendes Organ), Krajewski, Markus (VerfasserIn)
Format: Monograph
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien 2021
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Table of contents
  • Executive summary
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Domestic regulation disciplines in agreements on trade in services: A contentious relationship
  • 1. The bifunctionality of domestic regulation in the context of services liberalisation
  • 2. Types of domestic regulation addressed by trade in services agreements
  • 3. From disciplining regulatory instruments to “locking in good regulatory practice”
  • III. Twenty-five years of negotiations on domestic regulation disciplines: Moving in small(er) circles?
  • 1. Trying to finish the unfinished agenda: Negotiations in the WTO
  • 2. Disciplines beyond the GATS: Going bilateral and regional
  • 3. The plurilateral experiment: Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA)
  • 4. Returning to the multilateral table? The Joint Initiative and the Reference Paper on Services Domestic regulation
  • a) From Buenos Aires to Geneva: The road towards the Reference Paper
  • b) Contents of the Reference Paper
  • c) Preliminary assessment
  • IV. Potential risks of domestic regulation disciplines: Illustrative examples
  • V. Analytical framework to assess the risk of domestic regulation disciplines on public interest regulation
  • 1. Scope
  • 2. Degree of legal bindingness
  • 3. Types of obligations
  • a) Administration of domestic regulations
  • b) Regulatory transparency
  • c) Institutional setting
  • d) Substantive elements and development of standards
  • 4. Assessment of disciplines vis-à-vis public interest regulation
  • 5. Applying the framework to the Reference Paper on Services Domestic Regulation
  • VI. Policy recommendations
  • 1. Limiting the scope of domestic regulation disciplines
  • 2. Including a general public interest exception clause
  • VII. Conclusion and Outlook
  • Literature

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