RCEP与WTO机制下的SPS规制差异比较研究

A Comparative Study on the Diff erences in SPS Regulations under RCEP and WTO Mechanisms

《区域全面经济伙伴关系协定》(RCEP协定)于2022年1月1日正式生效。世界贸易组织(WTO)《SPS协定》中关于区域条件的适用、透明度要求等被直接用于RCEP下的“卫生与植物检疫措施”(“SPS”)。RCEP中“SPS”新增条款反映了实施SPS的新要求;其内容整合和扩展的条款确保了“SPS”规则的系统性和可操作性;世贸组织上诉程序被RCEP所抛弃。本文通过对RCEP与世贸组织SPS机制的比较分析,可以把握世贸组织《SPS协定》改革的重点,如权利义务平衡、对等互认机制和争端解决等,《SPS协定》改革为世贸组织多边贸易体系的完善提供了有益参考。

On 1 January 2022,the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership(RCEP)entered into force.The Sanitary and Phytosanitary(SPS)Agreement of the World Trade Organization(WTO)on the application of regional conditions,transparency requirements,etc.is directly applied to the SPS measures under the RCEP.The new provisions of SPS under RCEP reflect the new requirements for the implementation of SPS;its content consolidation and expansion provisions ensure the systematic and operability of SPS nules;the WTO appeal procedure has been discarded by RCEP.Through the comparative analysis of the RCEP and the WTO's SPS mechanism,this paper can grasp the focus of the reform of the WTO's SPS Agreement,such as the balance of rights and obligations,the reciprocal recognition mechanism,dispute settlement,etc.The reform of the SPS Agreement provides a useful reference for the improvement of the WTO's multilateral trading system.