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Durch die Konferenz zur Zukunft Europas hat die Debatte um eine Reform des EU-Primär-rechts neue Fahrt aufgenommen. Eine Vertragsreform tut not, im Interesse effektiverer, aber auch demokratischerer Beschlussfassung, erweiterter Kompetenzen und konsentierter Ver-bundgrundlagen zur Bewältigung der zahlreichen äußeren und inneren Herausforderungen.
Welthandelsrecht
(2022)
Seit ihrer Gründung steht die Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) samt den von ihr verwalteten Übereinkommen über den Handel mit Waren (GATT), Dienstleistungen (GATS) sowie dem Schutz geistigen Eigentums (TRIPS) im Mittelpunkt der Diskussionen über Globalisierung, global governance, Umweltschutz und internationale Verteilungsgerechtigkeit.
Aus dem Inhalt: WTO in schwierigen Zeiten; Grundprinzipien des Multilateralismus; Streitbeilegungsverfahren; Regelungen über den Warenhandel und technische Handels-hemmnisse; Regionale Integration; Handelspolitische Schutzinstrumente; Internationales Währungssystem; Investitionen und Investitionsschutz; Handel mit Dienstleistungen und Schutz geistigen Eigentums; Entwicklungsländer; E-Commerce und Digital Trade; Menschen-rechte, Umwelt- und Sozialstandards; Zukunft der WTO.
Zur Neuauflage: Für die Neuauflage wurde das Werk grundlegend aktualisiert und im Hin-blick auf die krisenhaften neuen Herausforderungen für die WTO und den Multilateralismus (Anstieg des Unilateralismus, Handelskriege, Aufstieg Chinas, zunehmend geostrategische Ausrichtung der Handelspolitik, Lähmung des Appellate Body), die neuen Themen im Welt-handel (Digital Trade, E-Commerce, Gesundheitsschutz) und die einschlägige Recht-sprechungsentwicklung überarbeitet.
The TCA (EU-UK Trade and Copperation Agreement) establishes a very comprehensive institutional framework with Partnership Council and diverse Committees having partly substantial decision-making powers for the development of the TCA. These considerable public functions prompt legitimacy concerns as to their democratic control, which this article explores in detail. It will be shown that the exercise of public powers by TCA treaty bodies meets with a sobering legal situation regarding democratic control mechanisms over treaty body decision-making at different levels. Thus, from a constitutional perspective, the legal and legitimate transfer of powers requires additional safeguards as to their democratic legitimacy. Solutions for better control of treaty body decisions by parliaments must be developed at several levels simultaneously.
The Union legislator has recently amended the Aarhus Regulation with the aim of bringing it more in line with the requirements the Aarhus Convention lays down. EU State aid decisions, however, remain excluded from its scope. This exclusion raises questions that form the object of this contribution. The article argues that the arguments presented to justify the continued exclusion of State aid review are not convincing. By not complying with the re-commendations of the ACCC, the EU is in clear violation of international law. Therefore, the article deliberates over the necessary changes and possible exemptions for a sound im-plementation of the Aarhus Convention against the procedural specificities of State aid review, considering also the Commission´s recently presented options, which contain a number of problematic aspects.
This article takes the proliferation of EU soft law instruments in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to analyse their effects and challenges to democracy and rule of law in the EU posed by the use of EU soft law in the implementation of EU law. A proposal will be made for a general legal framework on the adoption of administrative EU soft law in order to address them. Enhancing the legitimacy of EU governance requires a general legal framework that introduces minimum procedural, transparency and participa-tory safeguards and foresees looser rules for urgent soft measures. The article thus makes an original contribution by reconsidering the debate about EU soft law in the context of COVID-19 soft law with a view to its salience for domestic implementation of EU law and by developing core elements of a general legal framework.
Der Kommentar von Brocker/Droege/Jutzi ist die hochgelobt erste Adresse bei allen Fragen zur Landesverfassung. Die Kommentierungen verdeutlichen insbesondere dort, wo das Landesverfassungsrecht Besonderheiten gegenüber dem Grundgesetz aufweist, die Eigen-ständigkeit der Verfassungsrechtsräume.
Die Neuauflage greift alle Neuerungen der Verfassungsreform, insbesondere im Wahlrechts-schutz (Nichtanerkennungsbeschwerde politischer Parteien und Wählervereinigungen) auf.
This introductory article makes the case for studying joint institutional frameworks (JIFs) in EU bilateral agreements and provides an overview of the remaining contributions to the sympo-sium. In doing so, it addresses contemporary policy developments and theoretical debates in political science and international institutional law. It considers the rationale, design, perfor-mance as well as legitimacy of JIFs both in general and, in particular, in the EU's contractual bilateral relations. By mapping out the variety of JIFs in distinct geographical and regulatory contexts, the article develops an overarching argument about the ‘transversal’ nature of such structural frameworks, focusing on the most prevalent structural principles and rules, joint bodies and special procedures, including those not covered in detail in the other contribu-tions to this symposium.