00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004024 20221111033341 0010-0520004024 221111################|##########|#eng## 978-0-415-44810-9 eng 382.92 382.92 BAU i Baughen, Simon International Trade and the Protection of the Environment / Simon Baughen New York : Routledge, 2007 xxxii, 368 p. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.349-368 Globalisation has brought in its wake an increasing tension between the goals of free trade and environmental protection. The autonomy of the nation state in applying the precautionary principle to GM foods has recently come under challenge in the WTO award in the EC-Biotech dispute. Furthermore, trade and investment treaties entrench corporate privelege without imposing any corresponding environmental obligations. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed legal analysis, both at national and international level, of what looks set to become the new legal order of the twenty-first century. The tension has been to state the law as of 25 April 2007. Environmental law, International -- Economic aspects. Foreign trade regulation 09945/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09946/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09946/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09945/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09945/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09946/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09945/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09946/MKRI-P/XI-2008