WTO MEMBER STATES LOOK TO MEDIATION TO AVOID LEGAL DISPUTES OVER FOOD HEALTH RULES
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) governments will try mediation to resolve disagreements over food health standards, avoiding referrals to protracted and sometimes fruitless formal disputes proceedings. They have agreed to use the chair of the WTO sanitary and phytosanitary measures committee as an honest broker. This arises from concerns that WTO disputes proceedings are an inefficient way to resolve differences that can seriously restrict food trades. At a meeting of the committee this week, Chile described the system "an alternative to ...
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