...measures are consistent with the provisions of this Agreement.' The GATT Article XX(b) states: 'Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent the...or enforcement by any contracting party of measures necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health.' The Doha declaration on TRIPS and Public...

...exceptions, subject to the conditions that they "arc not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination...same conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction of international trade", that could justify deviations from the obligations imposed under GATT. Consequently,...

...1947, übernommen in die WTO durch GATT 1994 Art. l (b). Art. XX (e) GATT 1947 lautet: "...nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any contracting party ofmeasures:... (e) relating to the products ofprison labour; " 157 Charnovitz 1987 S. 569; Das aktuelle...

...chapeau clause, namely, that resulting measures shall not be applied in ways that "would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination...between countries where the same conditions prevail" or in ways that constitute "a disguised restriction on international trade."1'""1 While the precise legal...

...follows: "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 as disguised restriction on international trade, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent...

...a manner that would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between Parties where the same conditions prevail, or a disguised...restriction on international trade, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent a Party from adopting or maintaining measures: (a) necessary...

...and Emerging Business Law, vol. 3 (1999), p. 131, relying on exemptions in Article 20 for measures "(a) necessary to protect public morals; (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health; (g) relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources"; Steve Charnovitz,...

...to which the measures taken in application of the exceptions provided for by such norm must not be "a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination...between countries where the same conditions prevail". This conclusion was reached on account of the fact that, according to statistics, "the seizures of...

...between countries where like conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on trade in services, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any Member of measures: 4 It is understood that the procedures under paragraph 5 shall be the same as the...

...environment', 'at levels it considers appropriate, subject to requirements' that: • 'They do not constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination...between countries where the same conditions prevail' • They are not 'a disguised restriction on international trade' • They are 'otherwise in accordance...