The WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

Lukasz Gruszczynski is an associate professor (Dr. habil.) of international law and head of the Department of International and EU Law at Kozminski University (Poland). He is also a research fellow at the CSS Institute for Legal Studies (Hungary). Lukasz holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute. In the past, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Michigan, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Pazmany University, and an intern at the WTO Legal Affairs Division. His scientific portfolio comprises of several monographs and edited volumes, including two books with OUP. Lukasz specializes in WTO law and global health law.Joanne Scott is Professor of European Law and Head of the Department of Law at the European University Institute. Joanne taught previously at the Universities of Kent, Queen Mary, Cambridge and UCL and has been a visiting professor at Columbia and Harvard Law Schools. She was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI in 1997/98. Joanne was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2013 and as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012. She is a leading authority in the field of international and European environmental law, as well as the EU governance and its external relations.

• 1: Introducing the SPS Agreement2: Cooperative Regulation in the WTO: The SPS Committee3: Science and SPS4: Provisional SPS Measures5: Additional Obligations6: The Transparency Obligations7: Control, Inspection and Approval Procedures8: International Standards9: The SPS Agreement and Developing Countries10: Looking Beyond the SPS Agreement

Gruszczynski's commentary is a highly recommended reading and would be an essential addition to the libraries of practitioners working with WTO law as well as scholars who are interested in international trade law, or for that matter in any other areas of law where technical expertise is a prerequisite to the proper application of legal rules.