WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

Joanne Scott is Professor of European Law, University College London. She joined UCL in July 2005 having taught previously at the University of Cambridge and Clare College, Cambridge. She is a regular visiting professor at Columbia Law School, and is visiting at Harvard Law School during 2005/06.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Introducing the SPS Agreement ; 2. Co-operative Regulation in the WTO: The SPS Committee ; 3. Science and SPS ; 4. Additional Obligations ; 5. The Transparency Obligations ; 6. Control, Inspection and Approval Procedures ; 7. International Standards ; 8. SPS and Developing Countries

Professor Scott's The WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: A Commentary is a gem: a well thematized guide that belongs on the shelves of all those with an academic or practical interest in the workings of the Agreement. Presented in a clear and scholarly style, this text hits its mark as one of the series of Oxford Commentaries on the GATT/WTO Agreements...Professor Scott's book if thoroughly to be recommended. The themes of the work are pragmatically and sensitively selected, and the text readable and helpful. A good balance is maintained between explanation and deeper investigation of significant points. Caroline E. Foster, World Trade Review 8/3, 2009