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STANDARD OF REVIEW UNDER THE SPS AGREEMENT AFTER EC- HORMONES II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2010

Michael M Du
Michael M Du
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Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Email: michael.mingdu@gmail.com.
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International & Comparative Law Quarterly , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 441 - 459
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Copyright © 2010 British Institute of International and Comparative Law

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19 EC-Hormones I (n 5) para 113.

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21 Croley and Jackson (n 2) 208.

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25 EC-Hormones I (n 5) para 114.

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27 EC-Hormones I (n 5) para 132.

28 See eg, WTO Australia-Measures Affecting Importation of Salmon, Appellate Body Report (6 November 1998)WT/DS18/AB/R para 276.

29 EC-Hormones I (n 5) para 132.

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34 EC-Hormones I (n 5) para 132.

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55 Ehlermann and Lockhart (n 3) 506.

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60 EC-Hormones II (n 11) para 488.

61 ibid para 590.

62 ibid para 614 (emphasis added).

63 Art 5.1 provides: ‘Members shall ensure that their sanitary or phytosanitary measures are based on an assessment, as appropriate to the circumstances, of the risks to human, animal or plant life or health, taking into account risk assessment techniques developed by the relevant international organizations.’

64 EC-Hormones II (n 11) para 598.

65 ibid para 592.

66 ibid para 598.

67 ibid para 599.

68 ibid para 601.

69 ibid para 598.

70 EC- Hormones I (n.5) para 110.

71 ibid para 135.

72 ibid, para 138.

73 ibid, paras 138, 135.

74 EC- Hormones II (n 11) paras 603–613.

75 ibid para 611.

76 ibid para 612.

77 ibid para 613.

78 ibid para 610.

79 ibid, para 605.

80 EC- Hormones I (n 5) paras 186, 199; Japan-Apples (n 48) paras 200–206.

81 ibid para 198.

82 EC-Hormones II (n 11) para 606.

83 ibid para 562.

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85 Japan-Apples (n 48) para 200.

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87 Japan-Apples (n 48) para 179.

88 EC-Hormones II (n 11) para 685.

89 ibid para 688–698.

90 ibid para 697.

91 EC-Biotech (n 86) para 7.3238.

92 EC-Hormones II (n 11) para 7.612.

93 ibid para 701.

94 EC-Biotech (n 86) para 7.3260.

95 Japan-Apples (n 48) paras 180–182.

96 EC-Hormones II (n 11) para 702.

97 ibid para 699–712.

98 ibid, para 703.

99 ibid para 725.

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