Business / Commercial Law

Regulating Trade in Services in the EU and the WTO Trust, Distrust and Economic Integration

Edited by Ioannis Lianos · Okeoghene Odudu
Cambridge University Press March 2012

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781107008649
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
March 2012
Format
Hardback , 514 pages
Jurisdiction
European Union ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This volume assesses the viability of various theories of economic integration that take into account the legal, economic, political and social challenges of incorporating free trade with retaining the plurality of social welfare standards and consumer protection. Chapters cover the governance of trade in services at the European and global level; studies on the recent Services Directive and how this interacts with the principle of managed mutual recognition and harmonization in different sectors of trade in services (social services, financial services); the recent case law of the European Courts on the enforcement of the principle of free movement of services and how this accommodates various national public interest concerns; and the interaction of the freedom to provide services with fundamental rights, including social rights. The operation of the principle of managed mutual recognition in other economic integration regimes, in particular in the context of the WTO, is also discussed.

• Engages with recent and complex case law of the European courts on the regulation of trade in services

• Builds an overall theory of economic integration that provides a critical analysis of the EU services directive and subsequent legislative developments

• Discusses the tensions between regulatory pluralism and regional or international trade regimes

Table of Contents

List of contributors
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
List of abbreviation
xiv
Table of cases
xvi
Introduction
Ioannis Lianos and Okeoghene Odudu
1
Part I    The ‘trust’ theory of integration
15
1         Trust, distrust and economic integration: setting the stage
Ioannis Lianos and Johannes Le Blanc
17
1.        Introduction
17
2.        ‘Economic integration’ beyond functionalism
20
3.        Two views of economic integration: efficient organizational creation and increasing levels of trust
41
Part II   Unpacking the premises: mutual recognition, harmonization
57
2         Forms of mutual recognition in the field of services
Vassilis Hatzopoulos
59
1.        Introduction
59
2.        Are services different from goods concerning mutual recognition?
60
3.        Conceptual background
68
4.        Practicalities
77
5.        Enhanced (managed) mutual recognition
86
6.        Conclusion
97
3         Trust and mutual recognition in the Services Directive
Gareth Davies
99
1.        Introduction
99
2.        The Services Directive
101
3.        The problems of the Single Market for services
102
4.        The Services Directive as a regime for free movement and regulatory competition
110
5.        The Services Directive as a mechanism for inter-State cooperation
114
6.        Conclusions
119
4         Mutual recognition in the global trade regime: lessons from the EU experience
Wolfgang Kerber and Roger Van den Bergh
121
1.        Introduction
121
2.        The principle of mutual recognition: theoretical analysis and the experiences within the EU
127
3.        Application of the principle of mutual recognition on the global level: some conclusions
142
5         Public procurement and public services in the EU
Chris Bovis
147
1.        Introduction
147
2.        Public services under EU law
149
3.        The legal treatment of the financing of public services
157
4.        Conclusions
168
Part III  The interaction between pluralism, trust and economic integration
171
6         Shifting narratives in European economic integration: trade in services, pluralism and trust
Ioannis Lianos and Damien M. B. Gerard
173
1.        Introduction
173
2.        The affirmation of pluralistic concerns in EU Internal Market law
175
3.        Pluralism, economic integration and the emergence of an ethos of mutual trust
206
4.        Conclusion
259
7         Trusting the Poles? Mark 2: towards a regulatory peace theory in a world of mutual recognition
Kalypso Nicolaïdis
263
1.        Introduction
263
2.        Trusting the Poles? Constructing Europe through mutual recognition
265
3.        Questions for a regulatory peace theory
285
Part IV   Private parties and the economic integration process
299
8         Who’s afraid of the total market? On the horizontal application of the free movement provisions in EU law
Harm Schepel
301
1.        Introduction
301
2.        The institutional limitation: ‘non-governmental regulatory bodies’
303
3.        The substantive limitation: ‘direct discrimination’
307
4.        The procedural alternative? Indirect effect
310
5.        The cushion: the justification regime
313
6.        Conclusion
315
9         The EU Services Directive and the mandate for the creation of professional codes of conduct
Panagiotis Delimatsis
317
1.        Introduction
317
2.        Setting the scene: the Services Directive
319
3.        The mandate for the creation of pan-European codes of conduct
321
4.        Applicability of Articles 49 and 56 TFEU to private action
334
5.        The relevance of EU competition rules
338
6.        Conclusion
344
Part V    Seeds of distrust: regulatory competition and diversity in the social sphere
347
10        Transborder provision of services and ‘social dumping’: rights-based mutual trust in the establishment of the Internal Market
Olivier De Schutter
349
1.        Introduction
349
2.        The provision of services and labour rights: stages of progress towards regulatory competition
351
3.        Regulatory competition and fundamental social rights
365
4.        Mutual trust in social Europe
373
5.        Conclusion
378
11        Reconceptualizing the constitution of Europe’s post-national constellation – by dint of conflict of laws
Christian Joerges and Florian Rödl
381
1.        Introduction
381
2.        The conflicts-law approach to the European constellation
384
3.        Outlook
399
12        Fundamental rights as sources of trust and voices of distrust in the European Internal Market
Antoine Bailleux
401
1.        Introduction
401
2.        Fundamental rights as sources of trust
403
3.        Fundamental rights as voices of distrust
407
4.        Conclusion
411
Part VI   Extensions: the relevance of the ‘trust theory’ of integration in the context of the WTO
413
13        I now recognize you (and only you) as equal: an anatomy of (mutual) recognition agreements in the GATS
Juan A. Marchetti and Petros C. Mavroidis
415
1.        Introduction
415
2.        The basic economics of recognition
416
3.        The law regarding recognition
421
4.        Recognition in PTAs
425
5.        Recognition: an anatomy
427
6.        Concluding remarks
443
14        ‘Importing’ regulatory standards and principles into WTO dispute settlement: the challenge of interpreting the GATS arrangements on telecommunications
Robert Howse
445
1.        Introduction
445
2.        Systemic issues in the importation of norms through interpretation
449
3.        Telecommunications: the role of ITU standards
459
4.        Conclusion: the WTO’s absent administrative function and Global Administrative Law
468
Index
471

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Edited by Ioannis Lianos
University College London

Okeoghene Odudu
Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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