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      The extraterritorial human rights obligations of the EU in its external trade and investment policies

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      Europe and the World: A law review
      UCL Press
      human rights, extraterritorial obligations, due diligence, external trade and investment

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          The EU is bound by human rights obligations toward individuals outside the territory of its Member States who are affected by its trade and investment policies. Internal rules of the EU, namely the Founding Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and various external norms, that is international law sources, impose human rights obligations on the EU. Those human rights obligations are increasingly interpreted by treaty monitoring bodies as requiring extraterritorial due diligence duties from States parties, in the sense that the creation of substantial and foreseeable effects outside the State’s territory establishes the jurisdiction of the State party. This jurisdiction leads to positive obligations, namely the duty to exert due diligence on trade and investment policies. The EU is expected to assess the risks of human rights violations by its trade and investment partners in and outside its Member States and take all reasonable efforts to avoid foreseeable human rights violations. Although those human rights are likely to continue to be unenforceable before the Court of Justice, the consistent reference to due diligence obligations by treaty monitoring bodies, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor should encourage EU institutions to comply with their due diligence obligations.

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              Journal
              EWLR
              Europe and the World: A law review
              Eur. World
              UCL Press
              2399-2875
              10 October 2018
              : 2
              : 1
              : 5
              Affiliations
              Manchester University, UK
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              EWLR-2-5
              10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2018.05
              8254bf11-1437-484d-8a3e-752aec34b09e
              © 2018, Antal Berkes.

              This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2018.05.

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              : 06 February 2018
              : 16 July 2018
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              A Berkes, ‘The extraterritorial human rights obligations of the EU in its external trade and investment policies.’ [2018] 2( 1): 5. Europe and the World: A law review [21] DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2018.05.

              Social law,International & Comparative law,General law,Commercial law & legal protection,Law,Public law
              human rights,due diligence,external trade and investment,extraterritorial obligations

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