Sustainable development and EU trade agreements. What kind of future awaits the European environmental policy?

Abstract: the present paper aims to materialize on an analysis the sustainable development through the EU trade agreements negotiated for its own promotion as well as through the obligations established in them from the dispute resolution mechanisms. The more precise enforcement mechanisms and trade sanctions in environmental obligations will be examined within the TSD Chapters, as foreseen obligations where the resolution mechanisms target the critical issues of an approach adopted by the Union itself. The developments are continuous as well as the many and interesting profiles provided in practice as we see in the agreements of the EU with New Zealand and the United Kingdom.