Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I General instruments
- PART II Atmosphere
- PART III Oceans: global
- PART IIIB Oceans: regional
- PART IV Freshwater resources
- PART V Biodiversity
- PART VIA Hazardous substances and activities: nuclear
- PART VIB Hazardous substances and activities: pesticides
- PART VIC Hazardous substances and activities: waste
- PART VII Human rights and the environment
- PART VIII War and the environment
- PART IX Trade and the environment
- 37 Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, 15 April 1994 (extracts)
- 37A General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1947/1994 (extracts)
- 37B Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (extracts)
- 37C Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phythosanitary Measures (extracts)
- 37D Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (extracts)
- PART X Environmental impact assessment and access to information
- PART XI Liability for environmental damage and breaches of environmental obligations
- PART XII The Antarctic
37B - Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (extracts)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I General instruments
- PART II Atmosphere
- PART III Oceans: global
- PART IIIB Oceans: regional
- PART IV Freshwater resources
- PART V Biodiversity
- PART VIA Hazardous substances and activities: nuclear
- PART VIB Hazardous substances and activities: pesticides
- PART VIC Hazardous substances and activities: waste
- PART VII Human rights and the environment
- PART VIII War and the environment
- PART IX Trade and the environment
- 37 Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, 15 April 1994 (extracts)
- 37A General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1947/1994 (extracts)
- 37B Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (extracts)
- 37C Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phythosanitary Measures (extracts)
- 37D Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (extracts)
- PART X Environmental impact assessment and access to information
- PART XI Liability for environmental damage and breaches of environmental obligations
- PART XII The Antarctic
Summary
Preamble
Members,
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Recognizing that no country should be prevented from taking measures necessary to ensure the quality of its exports, or for the protection of human, animal or plant life or health, of the environment, or for the prevention of deceptive practices, at the levels it considers appropriate, subject to the requirement that they are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same conditions prevail or a disguised restriction on international trade, …
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Article 2
Preparation, adoption and application of technical regulations by central government bodies
With respect to their central government bodies:
Members shall ensure that in respect of technical regulations, products imported from the territory of any Member shall be accorded treatment no less favourable than that accorded to like products of national origin and to like products originating in any other country.
Members shall ensure that technical regulations are not prepared, adopted or applied with a view to or with the effect of creating unnecessary obstacles to international trade. For this purpose, technical regulations shall not be more trade-restrictive than necessary to fulfil a legitimate objective, taking account of the risks non-fulfilment would create. Such legitimate objectives are, inter alia: national security requirements; the prevention of deceptive practices; protection of human health or safety, animal or plant life or health, or the environment. In assessing such risks, relevant elements of consideration are, inter alia: available scientific and technical information, related processing technology or intended end-uses of products.
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- Documents in International Environmental Law , pp. 1012 - 1014Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004