WTO Case Law Relating to the Protection of the Environment. Analysis of Developement and System Sufficiency : Grin Verlag : 9783346514912 : 3346514919 : 16 Nov 2021 : Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Law - Civil / Private, Trade, Anti Trust Law, Business Law, grade: 18 Punkte, University of Lausanne, language: English, abstract: The World Trade Organization, established in 1994 by the Marrakesh Agreement, is often regarded as being detrimental to the efforts of national states in setting up new environmental protection regulations. Additionally, the WTO dispute settlement mechanism is often criticized for considering environmental protection measures as trade barriers and not being justified under the law of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) e.g. in its famous Tuna - Dolphin cases. On the other hand, the preamble of the WTO Agreements acknowledges that the expansion of production and trade has to permit "the optimal use of the world's res