Resumen de EU regulatory policy and world trade: : Should all EU institutions care what the world thinks?

Tamara Perisin

• It is incontestable that each of the EU institutions represents different interests, and has different tasks in shaping the European Union's legal order. In the field of the EU economic constitution, institutions can also have different preferences when it comes to balancing fundamental market freedoms and trade liberalisation on the one hand with the protection of other values, such as health, environment or animal welfare, on the other hand. While this institutional issue might seem to be an internal matter of the European Union, it has strong external effects and it influences the Union's position in the world. This paper is interested in the institutional interplay and policies which have led to significant negative external trade effects, including WTO disputes. The underlying premise of the paper is that all EU institutions have a duty to take WTO compliance and external trade effects into account when (de)regulating.