In recent decades an increasing significance of food quality and safety standardsand agricultural health standards in international agricultural trade can beobserved. A subgroup of these standards is constituted by standards schemesrequired by private industry actors, like for example the...

The Barcelona Process (Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) celebrated its tenth anniversary witha Summit of Head of Governors in November 2005. A five-year work programme, agreed bythe partners, marks the renewed efforts to implement the objectives of the Euro-MediterraneanPartnership. One of the...

The EU recently completed negotiating a series of Association Agreements withMediterranean countries. Trade preferences for agricultural goods granted under theseAgreements, as well as under former arrangements, are analyzed by calculating the valueof preference margins at several stages in the...

This paper focuses on EU agricultural trade policies which are especially relevant to North African and Near Eastern countries in the context of the Doha round in the WTO. First, the comprehensive agricultural trade preferences granted to them by the EU, which may be eroded in an environment of...

Der türkische Milchmarkt findet im Rahmendes fortschreitenden Abbaus von Agrarhandelshemmnissenund der EU-Beitrittsperspektivezunehmendes Interesse bei internationalagierenden europäischen Unternehmen. Hierfürgibt es gute Gründe: Mit einer Bevölkerungsstärkevon mehr als 70 Millionen...

The EU has notified the WTO of 21 bilateral trade agreements that are currently in force with nonmember countries (WTO, 2005). Under these agreements, the EU grants almost unlimited access to its industrial markets, but only limited preferential access to its agricultural markets for various...

We assess the distributional effects of the transmission of world market price shocks for the highly import dependent economy of Israel. We combine a CGE simulation with an empirical cointegration analysis for assessing the direction and extent of the connectedness of Israeli and world market...