区域贸易协定与世贸组织管辖权竞合与协调

Regional trade agreements and the cooperation and coordination of the jurisdiction of the WTO

随着区域贸易协定在当代的蓬勃发展,其与世贸组织争端解决机构之间的管辖权竞合问题愈来愈引人关注。区域贸易协定对此进行了协调,其主要方法是授予协定争端解决机构以专属管辖权和制定"挑选法院条款",但实践中"挑选法院条款"的效力似乎存在问题。为避免管辖权竞合可能产生的消极后果,区域贸易协定与世贸组织都需要作出努力,以更有效地规制管辖权竞合。

With the regional trade agreements in the vigorous development of the contemporary, the WTO dispute solving mechanism between competing jurisdiction problem is getting more and more concern. Regional trade agreements this coordination, the main method is the effectiveness of the grant agreement dispute settlement body to exclusive jurisdiction and the formulation of ＂forum shopping＂ clause, but in practice ＂selected court clause＂ there seems to be a problem. In order to avoid concurrent jurisdiction may have negative consequences, regional trade agreements and the WTO need efforts, to more effective regulation of competing jurisdiction.