ITUATION OF MERCOSUR COUNTRIES IN TERMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ESCAZÚ AGREEMENT

The Birregional Agreement between Mercosur and the EU is stalled by disagreements in the environmental policies carried out by each of the blocks. One of them is the Escazú Agreement that was not ratified by Brazil and Paraguay. This work aims to examine the situation of the Mercosur countries in terms of environmental policy and their relationship with the European Union (EU) within the framework of the Escazú Agreement, through a theoretical-analytical methodology with a qualitative approach. The results indicate that although the Mercosur countries have a robust legal system of legislative policies on environmental matters, the real problem lies in the non-compliance with the rules and other variables such as corruption. Another result indicates that the relations between Mercosur and the EU that seek progress in a trade agreement go beyond the mere ratification of Escazú, since other issues specific to the EU countries are identified regarding the comparative advantages that imported products could have with respect to European products, and that finally the way in which the Agreement signed in Brussels in 2019 is drafted would be in violation of international law norms.