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ENZIMI TERMOSTABILI PER LA PRODUZIONE DI DESTRINE NON RIDUCENTI E TREALOSIO AD ALTE TEMPERATURE
The International Technical Standards and their Legal Effects in the Light of the TBT Agreements
In recent times, international technical standards have come to the fore as one of the most pervasive
expressions of globalization and of international private governance. Because of their deep impact on
international trade, the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade has tried to regulate the way
standards are utilized, demanding that Member States adopt international technical standards in their
regulations in order to avoid hidden regulatory protectionism. However, the TBT Agreement does not specify
which standards must be used and to what extent technical regulations should conform to standards. The
recent case law of the Appellate Body seems to cast light on these problems, dictating parameters that
should guide these choices especially in contexts characterized by numerous competing standards regulating
the same field. In the light of this jurisprudence, the manner through which international technical standards
become part of the administrative laws of the United States and the European Union and the differences that
exist between the American and the European systems of standardization are of great significance with
regard to the negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
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