Lecture / Course on Energy Trade Law

Vorlesung "Energy Trade Law" im Studiengang "Energy Law Master" an der TU Berlin

Outline

  1. Energy Trade Law – Preliminary Remarks
  2. The World Trade Organization
  • Core Principles
  • History: Why create an open trading system?
  • Institutional Structure
  • Membership
  • Agreements
  1. Other Instruments and Organisations of International Energy (Trade) Law
  • OECD/IEA
  • Energy Charter Treaty
  • OPEC
  • IEF and UNFCCC
  • Regional Level: EU and NAFTA
  1. Multilateral and Plurilateral Agreements on Trade
  • Relationship of the different WTO-related agreements to each other
  • Energy and WTO Law
  1. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) – Issues for Energy
  • Reciprocity
  • Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment
  • National Treatment
  • Like Products
  • Freedom of Transit, Art. V
  • Quantitative Restrictions, Art. XI
  • Exceptions
  • Waiver, Burden of Proof
  • State Trading Enterprises, Art. XVII
  1. Other WTO Rules (GATS and TRIPS)
  • GATS
  • TRIPS
  1. Cases
  • Case 1: Canada-Autos
  • Case 2: Softdrinks I
  • Case 3: Softdrinks II
  • Case 4: Gasoline
(c) Steffen Hindelang

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(c) Steffen Hindelang