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Crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system - MPIA
Červinka, František ; Šturma, Pavel (advisor) ; Urbanová, Kristýna (referee)
The Dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization is in a crisis. The demise of the Appellate Body signals tough times for the multilateral trading system. The Appellate Body is now devoid of its adjudicators, their appointment blocked by the US. The celebrated system of dispute resolution has been crippled. Evolving since the second world war it saw many iterations. The first goal of this thesis is to explore the nature of the different dispute settlement regimes of the ITO, the GATT and the WTO and determine whether they constitute a judicial or a diplomatic system. The second goal of this thesis is to analyze the Appellate Body crisis. With no resolution in sight, a group of members agreed to sign the Multi-party Interim Appeals Arrangement (MPIA), resorting to arbitration in place of the non- functioning Appellate Body. The US has raised numerous objections to the practice of the Appellate Body and the thesis shall touch upon a number of them with a thorough discussion, mainly on the extent of its authority and the limits of its functioning. The thesis will examine the criticism of the US, counterarguments and whether the MPIA rectifies any of the perceived shortcomings. Key Words: Multilateral Trading System, the World Trade Organization, the Appellate Body, the MPIA, dispute...
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Progress, outcome, future scenarios and threats of multilateral trading system (WTO)
Kozáková, Michaela ; Štěrbová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Trojanová, Kamila (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to set a complex view on the current process of multilateral trade agreements under the World Trade Organization and point out the direction of DOHA negotiations. The emphasis is put on the Tenth Ministerial Conference, which took place in Nairobi in December 2015. Stances and demands of the WTO member are analysed step by step. The thesis considers threats that possibly come from plurilateral, bilateral and regional agreements and evaluate a potential risk for the multilateral trading system. For this purpose, the thesis is divided into four chapters. First chapter examine theoretical introduction to WTO and particularly to Development Doha Agenda, which is important for subsequent understanding of actual issues. Second part analyses in detail the negotiations in main negotiating parts of DDA before and after a summer break. Following chapter fluently continues with analyse of the progress after summer break and points out some current questions about preparations for MC10 and expectations. Space is also given to the MC10 and its outcomes. Finally, the last chapter gives a thought to future scenarios concerning function of the WTO.
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Activities of the World trade oranization- actual problems
Macháček, Jakub ; Plchová, Božena (advisor) ; Halík, Jaroslav (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to describe and analyze activities of the World trade organization. The thesis is divided into four chapters, which are related to the WTO. The first chapter decribes the multilateral trading system. The second chapter focuses on the trade policy and its tools. The third chapter summarises activities of the GATT and WTO from its foundation to the present. The last chapter is devoted to the European Union in the WTO.
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Economic Partnership Agreements - comparison with the Cotonou agreement
Totkovičová, Lucia ; Černá, Iveta (advisor) ; Taušer, Josef (referee)
Bachelor thesis characterizes trade and partnership agreements between European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states in the context of World Trade Organization's legal texts. The thesis focuses on the basic principles of multilateral trading system and special treatment of developing countries. It chronologically concerns itself with close trade relations and particular agreements between the EU and the ACP group. There are described various preferential trade regimes applied by the EU towards developing countries, primarily the ACP. Because of contradiction of the EU-ACP preferential agreements to WTO rules it was necessary to come to re evaluation of EU-ACP relations and negotiations of new Economic Partnership Agreements, called EPAs. The main accent is put on analysis of EPAs, incentives to negotiations with ACP regions, problems connected with it and mainly the conformity with WTO provisions. Last but not least the thesis describes the impact of EPAs on ACP regions, sums up its strengths and provides information about the future of EU-ACP cooperation.
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