La Jurisprudence de L'Omc / The Case-Law of the Wto, 1996-1997

WTO, OMC, these abbreviations are now well known throughout the world and the organization contained in these three-letter acronyms has become a principal actor in international relations economic and other. Everyone knows that a large part of its impact in the international society comes from a revolutionary mechanism of dispute settlement (DSM) that forms part of the World Trade Organization. More than 250 claims have been deposited in seven years, of which sixty led to a report of an ad hoc panel and the majority of those led to a report of the Appellate Body.This bilingual volume is the first in a series, which has the ambition to present the jurisprudence of this new mechanism, in a simple, coherent and systematic fashion. It is the result of intense cooperation between the two editors, and it is hoped to become a major reference work for all interested in the jurisprudence of the WTO and more general in the regulation of economic relations with respect to international commerce and all its multiple implications on daily matters. OMC, WTO, ces sigles sont aujourd'hui mondialement connus, et l'Organisation qu'ils disignent est devenue un acteur principal des relations internationales iconomiques et autres. Chacun sait disormais qu'une grande partie de son impact dans la sociiti internationale vient du micanisme de rhglement des diffirends (MRD) tout fait rivolutionnaire qu' incorpore l'Organisation mondiale du commerce. Plus de 250 plaintes ont iti diposies en sept ans et qu'un peu plus de 60 d'entre elles ont donni lieu un rapport de Groupe spicial, voire pour une majoriti d'entre elles un rapport de l'Organe d'appel. Ce prisent volume bilingue n'est que le premierd'une sirie d'ouvrages ayant pour ambition de prisenter la + jurisprudence; de ce nouveau micanisme de fagon simple, cohirente et systimatique.Il constitue le fruit d'efforts concertis que les deux iditeurs, associis cette entreprise collective de grande envergure, esphrent v