Sentences with phrase «within international trade agreements»

Author's Note: I am indebted to Dr. Margaret Biggs of Queens University, Dr. Meredith Lilly of Carleton University and Dr. Judit Fabian of the University of Calgary for many of these insights on gender and indigenous issues within international trade agreements.

Not exact matches

The possibility that this side agreement can be a vehicle of significant progress in integrating environmental considerations into issues of international trade led to a deep split within the environmental community.

60 Consequently, as the Commission observes, to regard the rules on patentable subject - matter in Article 27 of the TRIPs Agreement as falling within the field of the common commercial policy rather than the field of the internal market correctly reflects the fact that the context of those rules is the liberalisation of international trade, not the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States of the European Union.

It would make sense that an agreement between the EU and the US to set one standard or to agree on mutual recognition would fall within the scope of the CCP, since such an agreement relates specifically to international trade and has a direct and immediate impact on trade between the other countries.

Apparently, only if an agreement (and TRIPS in particular, note that TRIPS stands for trade related aspects of intellectual property) specifically relates to international trade, it falls within the scope of the CCP, and as such can not be used to circumvent article 114 TFEU or other legal basis for that matter.

Thus, whereas in Opinion 1/94 the CJEU had concluded that most of TRIPS did not specifically relate to international trade, here it stated that there was a specific link with international trade and thus the agreement did fall within the scope of the CCP.