The Promotion and Integration of Human Rights in EU External Trade Relations

Samantha Velluti

doi:10.5334/ujiel.342

The Promotion and Integration of Human Rights in EU External Trade Relations

Utrecht Journal of International and European Law

Volume 32 (2016): Issue 83

By: Samantha Velluti

Open Access

|Sep 2016

Abstract

The European Union (EU) has made the upholding of human rights an integral part of its external trade relations and requires that all trade, cooperation, partnership and association agreements with third countries, including unilateral trade instruments, contain with varying modalities and intensity a commitment to the respect for human rights. The paper discusses selected aspects of the EU’s promotion and integration of human rights in its external trade relations and assesses the impact of the changes introduced by the 2009 Treaty of Lisbon (ToL) on EU practice.

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