论《SPS协定》中的风险预警原则

On the Precautionary Principle in the SPS Agreement

《SPS协定》是WTO法律体系中的重要内容,其中第5条第7款的规定被人们称为'风险预警原则'。本文根据《WTO协定》、《SPS协定》以及WTO争端解决机构的实践,对该原则的产生、地位以及适用加以剖析。作者认为,该原则并未成为WTO法律的一项基本法律原则,《SPS协定》第5条第7款并不具有优于《SPS协定》其他条款的地位。

The SPS Agreement is an important component of the WTO legal system,whose Article 5(7)is called"the Precautionary Principle".In light of the WTO 1994,the SPS Agreement and the practice of WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body,this paper conducts in-depth analyses on the genesis,status and application of the principle.The author holds that this principle has not become an underlying legal principle of the WTO law,and the Article 5(7)of the SPS Agreement does not prevail over other provisions of the same Agreement.