Agriculture and International Trade: Law, Policy, and the WTOMichael Cardwell, Margaret R. Grossman, C. P. Rodgers CABI, 2003 - 330 páginas The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture has had a fundamental impact on agricultural policy worldwide. The new WTO agreements will cover agriculture,sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade and trade in intellectual property rights. This book addresses the interface between the law of international agricultural trade, the emerging legal and economic order for agricultural trade under the auspices of the WTO, and its impact on agricultural policy reform both in the European Union and the USA. With contributions from leading authorities in the appropriate areas. |
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Página 3
... payments made under production - limiting programmes , the so - called blue box ( Art . 6.5 ) . The availability of the green - box exemption has proved a particularly important factor , both in terms of domestic policy development ...
... payments made under production - limiting programmes , the so - called blue box ( Art . 6.5 ) . The availability of the green - box exemption has proved a particularly important factor , both in terms of domestic policy development ...
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... payments to support prices towards ' decoupled ' payments to producers , alongside moves to promote the multifunctional role of agriculture in rural areas . In the cereals sector , for example , farmers saw the intervention price fall ...
... payments to support prices towards ' decoupled ' payments to producers , alongside moves to promote the multifunctional role of agriculture in rural areas . In the cereals sector , for example , farmers saw the intervention price fall ...
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... payments to producers . Blue - box and green - box exemptions from reduction commitments have been much exploited , commencing with the payments made to producers under the MacSharry reforms in compensation for the loss of income ...
... payments to producers . Blue - box and green - box exemptions from reduction commitments have been much exploited , commencing with the payments made to producers under the MacSharry reforms in compensation for the loss of income ...
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... payments , together with the option to update base areas ; thirdly , the introduction of new counter - cyclical payments ; fourthly , the ' circuit - breaker ' ; fifthly , conservation ; and , sixthly , labelling requirements ...
... payments , together with the option to update base areas ; thirdly , the introduction of new counter - cyclical payments ; fourthly , the ' circuit - breaker ' ; fifthly , conservation ; and , sixthly , labelling requirements ...
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... payment . Secondly , under the FAIR Act , production flexibility contracts provided direct payments irrespective of crop prices ( Kelley , 1999 ) ; and , while similar fixed direct payments are made under the FSRI Act , signifi- cant ...
... payment . Secondly , under the FAIR Act , production flexibility contracts provided direct payments irrespective of crop prices ( Kelley , 1999 ) ; and , while similar fixed direct payments are made under the FSRI Act , signifi- cant ...
Contenido
The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture and Domestic | 27 |
The Politics of Agricultural Trade | 49 |
the Case of | 69 |
Multifunctionality and Nontrade Concerns | 85 |
a European Community | 131 |
TRIPS and the Protection of Intellectual Property | 165 |
What Role will | 193 |
Risk Precaution | 215 |
International Trade in Genetically Altered Agricultural | 239 |
Environmental Policy and the Reform of European Agriculture | 277 |
Reforming United States Environmental Regulations | 301 |
General Web Addresses | 321 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Advanced Informed Agreement Agenda 2000 reforms Agreement on Agriculture agri agri-environmental agricultural negotiations agricultural production agricultural trade amber box animal welfare application areas Article biodiversity biological diversity Biosafety Protocol biotechnology blue box Bohman Cairns Group Commission commodity Common Agricultural Policy Council Directive Council Regulation crops decoupled developing countries direct payments Doha domestic support economic effects environment environmental European Community exemption export subsidies Farm Bill farmers Fischler food safety food security FSRI Act GATT GMOs green green-box impact implementation important intellectual-property international trade invention issues labelling LMOS measures Mid-term Review Millennium Round multifunctional multifunctionality Negotiating Proposal non-trade concerns NTCs OECD outputs plant varieties precautionary principle programmes protection reduction regulatory risk assessment rural development schemes specific SPS Agreement trade-distorting TRIPS URAA Uruguay Round USDA Website World Trade World Trade Organization WTO Agreements WTO Members WTO negotiations
Pasajes populares
Página 29 - ... raising standards of living, ensuring full employment and a large and steadily growing volume of real income and effective demand, and expanding the production of and trade in goods and services, while allowing for the optimal use of the world's resources in accordance with the objective of sustainable development...
Página 32 - ... substantial improvements in market access; reductions of, with a view to phasing out, all forms of export subsidies; and substantial reductions in trade-distorting domestic support.
Página 260 - Subject to the requirement that such measures 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...
Página 228 - Members shall ensure that any sanitary or phytosanitary measure is applied only to the extent necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health, is based on scientific principles and is not maintained without sufficient scientific evidence, except as provided for in paragraph 7 of Article 5.
Página 178 - Any civil action for patent infringement may be brought in the judicial district where the defendant resides, or where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business.
Página 245 - In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.
Página 132 - The objectives of the common agricultural policy shall be: (a) to increase agricultural productivity by promoting technical progress and by ensuring the rational development of agricultural production and the optimum utilization of the factors of production, in particular labour...
Página 243 - Biological diversity" means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part: this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.