GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement and the European Court of Justice

1 The relationship between General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/World Trade Organization (WTO) law and European Union (EU)/European (Economic) Community E(E)C law has been qualified as one of mutual ‘co-adaptation’ (De Baere and Van Damme) or of ‘cross-fertilization’ (Soave). One of the most important channels of communication that made this happen was the jurisprudence of the GATT/WTO dispute settlement institutions and the European Court of Justice (ECJ). This jurisprudence gave rise to a real ‘dialogue between Courts’ (the expressions ‘jurisprudence’...