The 1995 WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) is concerned with trade and food safety regulation, and with the regulation of pests and diseases in agriculture. It establishes legal standards while affirming the right of each member to choose its own level of SPS protection. However, the question of whether the balance has been properly struck remains a matter of ongoing debate.

The Commentary provides a detailed update of the first edition authored by Joanne Scott in 2007. It reflects 15 years of change in SPS case law and practice. It critically examines current issues such as use of experts in the dispute settlement process, applicable standard of review, or legal treatment of private standards in food safety. Moreover, the Commentary assesses the suitability of the current regime to address the existing needs of developing countries

The commentary also examines how science-based criteria and the traditional GATT standards (non-discrimination and least-trade-restrictive means) are used to discipline national SPS measures. It explores the transparency obligations and procedural rules that govern control, inspection, and approval processes in importing countries. A separate section is dedicated to the operation of the SPS Committee as an arena for transnational governance in the SPS field. The book also investigates the agreement's attempt to establish a framework to draw together the diverse institutions and regulatory regimes already populating the food safety arena. Two new chapters are also included: one reviewing Article 5.7 SPS in greater detail, and one dealing with the SPS rules in selected regional trade agreements (the CETA, EU-Japan EPA, USMCA, RCEP, and CPTPP).

Commentator: Balázs Horváthy, Research Fellow, Institute for Legal Studies

The workshop will be about V4 national constitutional, legislative and international law environment of exceptional legal orders in the light of the experience of dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, taking into account the following points:

1. whether the related classic theories are still relevant in “post-Covid” circumstances;
2. whether the level of national and international regulation is appropriate, i.e. whether it contains sufficient but limited authorisations for executive agencies;
3. whether and how the restrictions on fundamental rights are justified in national and related international law (the question of derogation);
4. whether the institutional guarantees to prevent abuse of exceptional power (parliamentary oversight, constitutional review, judicial protection, ombudsman, etc.) can function properly according to the effective concepts of special legal orders;
5. whether and how the experience of the management of the pandemic would justify a change in the emergency legislation;
6. how the Visegrad countries tackled the Covid-19 crisis;
7. what is at stake with regard to separation of powers, human rights protection and the protection of the economy in the state of danger.

13.00-13.10: Opening remarks and the introduction of the theme, Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, (Professor of Law, ELTE Law School, CSS coordinator of the Post-Covid project)

Chair:  Nóra Forgács (Research Fellow, CSS, coordinator of the Post-Covid project)

13.10-13.30: Zoltán Szente (Research Professor, CSS, PI of the Incubator project): The rule of law requirements of states of emergency

13.30-13.50: Gábor Mészáros (Associate Professor, University of Pécs): Shall we accept original theories of 'exception' in the age of permanent states of emergency?

13.50-14.10: Attila Horváth (Associate Professor, Ludovika University of Public Service): Emergency Regimes in the European Constitutions – An Overview

14.10-14.30: Discussion

14.30-15.00: Coffee break with discussion

15.00-15.20: Tomas Gabris (Professor of Law, University or Trnava – Slovak Academy of Sciences): Slovakia

15.20-15.40: Zdeněk Kühn (Professor of Law, Charles University and judge, Supreme Administrative Court): Czech Republic

15.40-16.00: Monika Florczak-Wątor (Professor of Law, Jagellonian University, Cracow): Poland

16.16.40: Discussion and cofee break

16.40-17.00: Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz (Professor of Law, ELTE Law School, CSS) and Evelin Burján (assistant professor, ELTE Law School):

17.00-17.20:  Pál Sonnevend (Professor of Law, ELTE Law School):  Concepts, regulation and insights from international law

17.20-17.50: Discussion

17.50-18.00: Zoltán Szente (Research Professor, CSS) Closing remarks

Human rights have potential to assure well-being and security, reduce discrimination, and foster inclusion. Yet we know that in practice, myriad factors get in the way of human rights. Over the pandemic, many national governments suspended human rights as means to prevent infections. Even without the pandemic, long-term concerns have arisen over whether national governments decoupled their international commitments from national implementation, especially for vulnerable groups such as young people. This presentation will discuss factors that influence human rights efforts of national governments, as well as offer insights into a new area of human rights research. 

Brian Gran's research program investigates what institutions and structures facilitate, and obstruct, agency when it comes to using rights to improve outcomes, reduce disparities, and advance social policies. His work matters to a range of stakeholders, from non-governmental organizations to quasi- and governmental institutions. He serves as Expert Consultant to a Bureau of the U.S. Department of State’s Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights and a Case Western Reserve’s Designee to the Public Interest Technology-University Network (PIT-UN).

Join us on this hybrid event:

Venue: Tóth Kálmán utca 4, Institute for Legal Studies

Date and time: 7 September 2023, 10:00 am

or online: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a9bc67b8ba0b74d038a496fd05bd8c73d%40thread.tacv2/1693048527602?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22dfdc0203-79f4-4b7a-b4f3-caca1106f02f%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22af7f5a56-ad68-4921-abaa-b3e2358ad6de%22%7

A konferencia tervezett programja:

15:00 Dékáni köszöntő

15:10 Kari imázsfilm vetítés

15:30 A Pécsi Jogi Karról indultam: Tilesch György (MI szakértő, elnök, PHI Intézet, Kalifornia)

15:50 VOX Iustis kórus ünnepi koncertje Horváth Attila karnagy vezetésével

16:00 Campus tour – kötetlen nosztalgikus séta a kar épületében, majd ezt követően évfolyamtalálkozók

20:00 Official Centenáriumi Alumni After Party: Pepita Club -Pécs, Zsolnay Vilmos utca 12. (Zene: HaszánPeti + KissSzabi legendás duó a régi idők emlékére)

A Centenáriumi Alumni Találkozón történő részvétel ingyenes, de regisztrációhoz kötött, az első 300 regisztrációt tudjuk fogadni. A Kar a találkozó alkalmával egyúttal – társadalmi felelősségünk tudatában – adománygyűjtést hirdet. Az adományokat a joghallgatók lakhatásának támogatására, lakhatási körülményeinek javítására fordítjuk. Az adományokat az alábbi számlaszámra várjuk: OTP 11731001-23135378. Közleményben kérjük tűntesse fel: PST 500009 ÁJK Adomány. A támogatásáról az Egyetem dokumentációt nem állít ki, a támogatás adókedvezményre nem jogosít.

A konferencia tervezett programja:

10:00-10:20 Köszöntő beszédet mond: Prof. Miseta Attila rektor (PTE) és Prof. Fábián Adrián dékán (PTE ÁJK)

10:20-10:40 Prof. Korinek László akadémikus, professor emeritus (PTE ÁJK)

10:40-11:00 Prof. Nyitrai Miklós intézetigazgató egyetemi tanár, dékán (PTE ÁOK)

11:00-11:20 Prof. Homoki-Nagy Mária tanszékvezető egyetemi tanár (SZTE ÁJTK)

11:20-12:00 Állófogadás

12:00-12:20 Darák Péter egyetemi docens (ELTE), alumnusunk, a Kúria volt elnöke

12:20-12:40 Michael Kilchling, vezető kutató (Max Planck Institute)

12:40-13:00 Prof. Zoran Pavlović, egyetemi tanár (Novi Sad University)

Tájékoztatjuk arról, hogy a rendezvényen kép-és hangfelvétel készül, valamint az eseményt élőben közvetítjük a Pécsi Tudományegyetem Állam- és Jogtudományi Kar nevű YouTube-csatornán.

Az Andrássy Egyetemen Prof. Herbert Küpper a téli szemeszterben jogi és közigazgatási szakfordítási (magyar-német/német-magyar) gyakorlatot tart. Ezt a gyakorlatot más egyetemek hallgatói részére és az ügyvédi továbbképzési rendszer keretében is megnyitottuk.

Időpontja: a páros számú heteken, hétfő, 18.00-19.30 órakor (szeptember 18., október 2., október 16., október 30., november 13., november 27., december 11.).

Az ügyvédi továbbképzési rendszer keretében történő részvétellel kapcsolatban itt talál információt: https://www.andrassyuni.eu/veranstaltungen/ubung-fachubersetzung-rechts-und-verwaltungstexte-ungarisch-deutsch-deutsch-ungarisch.html

Más egyetemek hallgatói, vagy egyéb érdeklődők a melinda.tieger@andrassyuni.hu címen kaphatnak tájékoztatást.