Lecture / Course on Energy Trade Law

Vorlesung "Energy Trade Law" im Studiengang "Energy Law Master" an der TU Berlin

Outline

1. Energy Trade Law – Preliminary Remarks
2. The World Trade Organization

• Core Principles
• History: Why create an open trading system?
• Institutional Structure
• Membership
• Agreements

3. Other Instruments and Organisations of International Energy (Trade) Law

• OECD/IEA
• Energy Charter Treaty
• OPEC
• IEF and UNFCCC
• Regional Level: EU and NAFTA

4. Multilateral and Plurilateral Agreements on Trade

• Relationship of the different WTO-related agreements to each other
• Energy and WTO Law

5. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) – Issues for Energy

• Reciprocity
• Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment
• National Treatment
• Like Products
• Freedom of Transit, Art. V
• Quantitative Restrictions, Art. XI
• Exceptions
• Waiver, Burden of Proof
• State Trading Enterprises, Art. XVII

6. Other WTO Rules (GATS and TRIPS)

• GATS
• TRIPS

7. Cases

• Case 1: Canada-Autos
• Case 2: Softdrinks I
• Case 3: Softdrinks II
• Case 4: Gasoline