Regulating Transnational Sustainability Regimes

The first legal study of voluntary sustainability standards under both European Union and World Trade Organization law.

Enrico Partiti (Author)

9781108837576, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 May 2022

256 pages
23.5 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.69 kg

The book studies emergence and consolidation of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS); private standards defining sustainability-related product features. The book takes stock of their success and their potential in mediating between economic and non-economic concerns of global production. Despite their private and voluntary nature, VSS generate profound consequences for the producers seeking certification, for the consumers purchasing certified products, and for others affected by their standards. VSS are used by public authorities in the EU as a functional complement to public measures regulating global value chains. At this juncture of market proliferation and public use of private regimes, this book studies how public authority can control, coordinate and review VSS. It studies how the regulation of VSS could unfold through substantive and procedural legal requirements in the domain of European Union law and World Trade Organisation law, as well as through the incentives offered by VSS employment in public measures.

Introduction
1. Features, typologies and effects of VSS
2. Public authority and VSS
3. VSS under EU competition law
4. VSS and EU market regulation
5. Attribution and expected conduct of WTO members towards VSS
6. Transposing TBT meta-rules to VSS
Index.

Subject Areas: International economic & trade law [LBBM], International business [KJK]