WTO - A Legal Analysis of Their Adverse Impact on Animal Welfare

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THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION RULES

 

A Legal Analysis of Their Adverse Impact on Animal

Welfare

 

by Peter Stevenson

 

(Peter Stevenson is an English lawyer. He works for

the organisation Compassion in World Farming, which

has offices in the UK and several other European Union

Member States)

 

 

 

The free trade rules of the World Trade Organisation

(WTO) have already had a highly detrimental impact on

measures designed to protect animals.

 

U.S. laws to safeguard dolphins and initially their

attempts to protect sea-turtles were declared to be

inconsistent with the WTO rules.

 

The European Union has abandoned its ban on the import

of furs from countries using the leghold trap, because

of fears it could not survive a WTO challenge.

Similarly, the EU still has not brought into force its

ban on the sale of cosmetics tested on animals.

 

This article examines the WTO rules and how they have

been interpreted by case law. It then identifies the

way in which the WTO rules need to be reformed if they

are not to continue to have a deleterious effect on

animal welfare. Finally, the article argues that WTO

members could quite properly interpret the existing

rules less restrictively in such a way as to permit

measures designed to improve animal welfare.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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