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MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF REGULATORY REGIMES: SOME LESSONS AND PROSPECTS - Contents

• I. Introductory remarks
• II. Mutual recognition and its alternatives: residual, hybrid or core paradigm?
  • II.1. Lessons from the EU experience: policed national treatment, harmonization and mutual recognition
  • II.2. MR as the core paradigm
• III. Balancing benefits and costs: the case for "managed mutual recognition"
  • III.1 The trade rationale: market demand for mutual recognition
  • III.2. The regulatory rationale: costs and benefits of regulatory competition and co-operation
  • III.3. The political rationale: sovereignty, subsidiarity and accountability
• IV. Negotiation dynamics: Lessons from the US-EU bilateral MRA
  • IV.1. The scope of MRAs : Standards vs conformity assessment
  • IV.2. US vs EU conformity assessment systems in the early 1990s
  • IV.3. The negotiations: Obstacles to agreement and bargains
• V. Implementing MRAs: The design of sustainable contracts
  • V.1. Core elements
  • V.2. Making options and trade-offs explicit
• VI. Towards world-wide mutual recognition?
  • VI.1 The de facto contagion effect of MRAs
  • VI.2. The WTO framework: MFN vs MRAs
  • VI.3. Pro-active non-discrimination
• Bibliography

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