WTO: URUGUAJ ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS AND POSTULATES OF LAW AND COMPETITIVENESS POLICY

The Uruguay Round out of which emerged WTO imposed new comparative and analytical considerations about the European Union and WTO. The possible comparation of the EU trade policy with those of the WTO, is necessary, because they share the common objectives directed to the economic welfare, and are based on the complementary legal and economic system. Within the WTO, which acts primarily as a diplomatic forum, the Member States, discuss the issues of free or more precisely said freer trade. Within the system of international trade law, perhaps one of the most powerful instruments to achieve free trade, beside the ensuring the free market access, and therefore improvement of international trade flows, is the competition policy. The competition policy was not so far incorporated within a single agreement within WTO, and the negotiations in this area would be open in the Millenium Round. Considering the fact of closing an multilateral agreement on competiton, the starting point could be the issues of implementation of competition policy at the Member States’ levels. Even in this rather early stage of the negotiations on inclusion of the competition policy in the WTO, there should be kept in mind that cathegories which could be included within such agreement, in any case should proved sufficient warrants that the chances acquired by the liberalization of trade would not be annulled by the anticompetitive actions in concrete situations under the jurisdictions at the local levels of the Member States.