Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Has the Fairest Clauses of Us All?

Depending on the design of the measure, the EU risks imposing rules that are disproportionate and incompatible with the international rulebook, and therefore seeing the mirror clause challenged by trading partners in the WTO. [...] While shrimp pass between the bars to the back of the net, turtles and other larger animals bump against the metal grid and escape through a flap in the mesh, either at the top or bottom of the net. [...] 2.5 THE EU’S ROLE IN SAVING THE RULES BASED ORDER As much as some might wish to critique the ‘judicial overreach’ of the WTO’s Appellate Body, the ‘crown jewel’ of the multilateral trading system has been paramount to the “rules- based” order that today is in peril. [...] The European Union is therefore split into three main zones: the North that spans the Baltic states and Scandinavia, the South that covers the Mediterranean basin from Portugal to Bulgaria, and the Centre that includes the Benelux, Germany, Romania as well as Ireland. [...] 3.6 OF THE IMPORTANCE OF AVOIDING AN ‘ELECTIVE PROTECTIONISM’ Considering how the authorisation of molecules works in the EU, the European pesticides regime is tailored to the plant health risks of Europe.