WTO and environmental requirements : some aspects of legal regulation in Lithuania, the Russian Federation and Ukraine

Abstract

Recently special attention has begun to be spared to the issue of meeting the world standards of quality and safety by domestic products and the ecologizations of economical activity on the whole, all of which has been due to an active development of the market relations in the post-Soviet states and their active collaboration in the international trade and their admission to the international organizations, in particularly to the World Trade Organization (WTO) [1]. WTO recognizes sustainable development as the central principle which is reflected in such basic WTO instruments as the Marakesh Agreement establishing World Trade organization (15 April, 1995) and the Doha Ministerial declaration (14 November, 2001). The achievement of sustainable development requires integration of economic, environmental and social components at all levels. The task may be achieved only by continuous dialogue and action in global partnership, focusing on the key sustainable development issues such as, for instance, protection of environment, economic and social development.