A short-term training was held at the UWED on the WTO Agreements on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)

On 22-25 August 2022, a short-term training was held on the legal features of the WTO Agreements on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) to a group of professors and students from the UWED, as well as representatives of different public offices.

The training was organized within the project: “Facilitating the Process of Uzbekistan’s accession to the World Trade Organization”, which is funded by the European Union and implemented by the International Trade Centre (Geneva, Switzerland) in cooperation with the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The training was delivered by professor Arthur Appleton, a prominent expert in the field. During the interactive sessions, the participants were able to better understand the regulatory policy space that WTO Members enjoy under the TBT and SPS agreements. The training aimed at increasing Uzbekistan’s WTO awareness and aiding its accession negotiations.

LECTURER'S BIOGRAPHY

Professor Appleton is a founding partner of Appleton Luff – International Lawyers, a boutique international law firm with offices worldwide. He has more than 30 years of experience in international trade and investment law working with, sovereign States, international businesses, and international and regional organizations. He has worked throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, and has served as a consultant for many organizations including the World Bank, IFC, WTO, ADB, IDB, UNCTAD, UNITAR, ITC, US CLDP, ILI, and the EU.

He is on the List of Experts (Chairpersons) for Trade and Sustainable Development Disputes arising from a number of EU FTAs. He has Central Asian experience, most recently in Azerbaijan for the EU, and Kazakhstan for the World Bank, as well as in Kyrgyzstan. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Visiting Faculty of the World Trade Institute (University of Bern) and serves as a member of its Advisory Board. Arthur also serves as an Adjunct Professor of International Law at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS Europe and SAIS Washington) where he teaches International Trade Law. Recently he became a member of the Visiting Faculty of IE University (Madrid), where he teaches a course on Governance of International Trade and Commerce.

Professor Appleton has published widely in the field of international trade and arbitration (4 books and more than 50 articles). He sits on the Editorial Advisory Board, of Legal Issues of Economic Integration and the Advisory Committee of the Latin American Journal of International Trade Law. Arthur is a Swiss and US national and speaks English and French. He is admitted to practice law in Maryland and Washington, DC (USA) and is a member of the Ordre des avocat de Genève (Switzerland)