The Revised EU GSP+ - New Rules to Promote Sustainable Development

Słok-Wódkowska, Magdalena

doi:10.21697/priel.2013.2.4.02

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“…The allegation this paper will consider is then whether indeed, even the countries benefiting from the GSP+ were not motivated to ratify conventions they had not, but rather were mostly rewarded for the state of their prior convention ratifications in the sphere of human rights (cf. de Schutter, 2015;Hamuľák and Gunasekara, 2019;Słok-Wódkowska, 2013).…”

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“…All of these ratifications concerned either the Genocide Convention, or the Apartheid Convention, as instruments establishing prohibited acts and crimes under international law. It has been argued that GSP+ benefits did not serve as an incentive for prospective participants to proactively ratify conventions and assume new obligations, and rather were provided improved tariff preferences to countries that mostly satisfied the required goals anyway (Słok-Wódkowska, 2013). The limited scope of new ratifications of only the two abovementioned conventions supports this finding, especially considering the fact that neither of these two conventions establish a monitoring body, meaning new ratifications did not come with the burden of regular periodic monitoring of expert bodies, merely review by the European Commission itself.…”

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Impact of European Union Tariff Preferences on International Human Rights Treaties

Máčaj¹

2022

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Tariff preferences of the EU seek to, inter alia, incentivize third countries through more beneficial scheme of preferences to act in accordance with international human rights standards and other values prioritized by the EU. The aim of this contribution is to assess whether this motivation has real impact on third countries as regards their approach to core international human rights treaties and provide answer to the question whether improved tariff preferences influenced conduct of those countries, as regards accession to the said treaties and expansion of their territorial applicability. Through this assessment, the research seeks to analyse impact the positive conditionality had on acceptance and ratification of human rights treaties by countries that have not showed previous inclination to ratifications without the prospect of obtaining tariff preferences by the EU. The central method is to consider the international human rights treaty ratification years of all states benefitting from the EU regime of tariff preferences. By comparing the time of ratifying the required human rights treaties, and the year in which the respective states became beneficiaries of tariff preferences, the study confirms that, safe for several specific cases, the states receiving tariff preferences had little to no new obligations in terms of ratifying human rights conventions they were previously not bound by.

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