The pursuit of sustainable agriculture in EU free trade agreements / / Luchino Ferraris.

• Superior document: European Institute for Food Law series ; 12
• VerfasserIn: Ferraris, Luchino,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill | Wageningen Academic,, 2020.; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: European Institute for Food Law series ; 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 pages).

This book explores the extent to which EU Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) pursue sustainable agriculture in third country parties. It contends that this should be part of a duty for the EU enshrined in the Treaties to promote its fundamental values in its external action. It suggests that the extent to which this occurs in practice, may be reviewed judicially by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Against this background, selected agreements concluded by the EU with developed and developing countries (Canada, South Korea, Ukraine, Chile, SADC countries and Vietnam) are taken as case studies. The author concludes that, in spite of the remarkable progress made hitherto, EU trade policy is still far from being in line with the increasingly strong commitment of the EU to take the lead in the international arena for environmental and climate matters. This work adopts primarily a legal methodology, but it broaches the subject in interdisciplinary terms. It is addressed not only to (EU) policy-makers, but also to scholars of different fields and to the wider public interested in topics that have become of common concern for the future of our planet. With a foreword by Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director General of the European Commission - DG Environment.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1. From sustainable development to sustainable agriculture : agricultural sustainability in the EU -- Chapter 1. Sustainable development and EU agricultural law -- Chapter 2. In search of an EU model for sustainable agriculture -- Part 1 summary of findings -- Part 2. EU free trade agreements and the challenges for agricultural sustainability -- Chapter 3. EU free trade agreements in agricultural commodities in the context of the EU Common Commercial Policy -- Chapter 4. Key issues for agricultural sustainability in FTAs -- Part 2 summary of findings -- Part 3. EU free trade agreements and counterpart countries' sustainable agriculture : selected case studies -- Chapter 5. EU free trade agreements with developed countries : EU-Canada, EU-South Korea and EU-Ukraine -- EU free trade agreements with developing countries : EU-Chile, EU-SADC ad EU-Vietnam -- Part 3 summary of findings -- Final part : concluding remarks and outlooks --.