Public Services in EU Trade and Investment Agreements

✍ Scribed by Luigi F. Pedreschi

Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press;T.M.C. Asser Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 291
Series: Legal Issues of Services of General Interest
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the impact of EU trade and investment agreements on public services, a topic that continues to be the subject of heated political debate. It surveys a broad range of EU agreements and provides a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the rules and disciplines of such agreements that can affect the provision of public services.
Going beyond the existing literature, it asks whether the treatment of public services in EU trade and investment agreements is coherent with the special status of public services in “internal” EU law, specifically internal market law, while also challenging the notion that trade and investment agreements automatically pose serious threats to public services.
The book will be of keen interest to legal scholars and students specialising in EU and/or international economic law together with national and international policy-makers.
Luigi F. Pedreschi is affiliated to the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and currently works as a Research Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, also located in Florence.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
An Introduction to Public Services and EU Law (Luigi F. Pedreschi)....Pages 1-10
Reframing the Debate: Public Services and International Economic Law (Luigi F. Pedreschi)....Pages 11-64
EU Trade and Investment Policy: The Role of Public Services (Luigi F. Pedreschi)....Pages 65-89
Scope: Determining the Breadth of the Internal and External Frameworks (Luigi F. Pedreschi)....Pages 91-130
Disciplines of the Internal and External Frameworks: Form, Application, and Effect (Luigi F. Pedreschi)....Pages 131-176
Safeguarding Public Services: Exceptions and Derogations of the Internal and External Frameworks (Luigi F. Pedreschi)....Pages 177-205
Enforcement of EU Trade and Investment Agreements (Luigi F. Pedreschi)....Pages 207-251
Conclusions on the Treatment of Public Services in EU Trade and Investment Agreements (Luigi F. Pedreschi)....Pages 253-257
Back Matter ....Pages 259-284

✦ Subjects

Law; European Law; Public International Law; International Economic Law, Trade Law

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