Towards better regulatory governance of transatlantic trade: the case for labour and environmental standards in the EU-Canada partnership
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December 16, 2022
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This thesis analyses the effectiveness of the regulatory governance objectives concerning labour and environmental standards in the EU-Canada partnership. The topic has emerged out of my interest in examining the EU’s commitment to the ‘trade and sustainable development’ agenda that the Union has reiterated for over a decade since the Global Europe Strategy communication of 2006 to the Open, Sustainable and Assertive Trade Policy communication of 2021.
The Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada contains provisions on sustainable development dedicated to labour and environmental standards. The text of CETA suggests that the EU and Canada seek to promote the provisions and standards as part of regulatory governance i.e., based on the principles of transparency, accountability, efficiency, adaptability, and coherence. This makes the agreement stand apart from other EU free trade agreements (FTAs) that contain provisions on labour and environment. Even for Canada, CETA’s commitments stand apart from those undertaken in other FTAs.
CETA also represents the closest partnership in the transatlantic sphere in the aftermath of the failure of the EU-US negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). In Canada, the EU has a trade partner it considers ‘like-minded’. Therefore, this thesis examines ‘trade and sustainable development’ in a recalibrated transatlantic area where Canada and the EU are primary trade partners. It draws inferences on the whether the extensive coverage of the trade-labour-environment linkage in CETA promotes better regulatory governance in transatlantic and global trade.
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ethesis
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PhD
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School of Law
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69762
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