The Multilateral Trading System and Non-Trade Issues: How the World Trade Organisation Managed to Integrate Environmental Concerns without Integrating International Environmental Law

Abstract

The aim of this article is to identify the main ideas, concepts and tensions, underlying the relationship between trade liberalisation and the protection of health and environment, as they emerge from WTO case law, in order to illustrate the originality and the effectiveness of the approach followed by the Organisation in dealing with health and environment disputes.