Concluding Considerations
Christina Hiessl
What the paper says
p class="MsoNormal"Various considerations emerging from the Special Issue on the aftermath, consequences and lessons learned from the EU-Korea FTA case merit further exploration. They include the exceptional nature of the case, the particular role of collective labour rights in the discourse on trade and sustainability, the difficulty of transposing international standards to the national level (as illustrated by the developments in Korea), a number of features of current sustainability clauses and the issues arising therefrom, and the complex relationship between different international frameworks, organizations and bodies. The concluding considerations argue that, although the EU-Korea FTA case has so far neither triggered fundamental changes in domestic law and practice nor stimulated follow-up litigation on trade and sustainability, it does provide an important point of departure for overcoming certain issues that have long stood in the way of making FTAs effective tools for encouraging compliance with fundamental labour rights. Various other issues and notably difficulties have been thrown into sharper relief by the procedure, the Panel’s decision and/or its aftermath.o:p/o:p
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
| M · momentum | 0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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