WTO CASE
March 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has dealt a blow to the hopes of international lawyers wanting to launch legal actions by exploiting World Trade Organisation (WTO) rulings. It has ruled that WTO decisions and agreements are essentially diplomatic, with have no direct effect on European Union (EU) law. Unusually, the court has opposed the relevant advocate general, Antonio Tizzano, who advised EU law could be declared void when conflicting with WTO treaties and disputes settlement decisions. If this opinion had stood, EU lawyers could have ...
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