Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection Sample Clauses

Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. 1. The Parties recognise the right of each Party to establish its own levels of domestic environmental and labour protection, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws and policies, consistently with internationally recognised standards and agreements to which they are a party. 2. The Parties reaffirm the importance of protection as afforded in domestic labour and environmental laws. 3. Recognising that it is inappropriate to encourage trade or investment by weakening or reducing domestic levels of labour and environmental protection, a Party shall not derogate from, or persistently fail to effectively enforce, its environmental and labour laws to this end.

Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. 1. Recognising the right of each Party, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, to establish its own level of environmental and labour protection, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws and policies, each Party shall seek to ensure that its laws, policies and practices provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protection, consistent with standards, principles and agreements referred to in Articles 36 and 37 and shall strive to further improve the level of protection provided for in those laws and policies. 2. The Parties recognise the importance, when preparing and implementing measures related to the environment and labour conditions that affect trade and investment between them, of taking account of scientific, technical and other information, and relevant international standards, guidelines and recommendations.

Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. 1. Recognising the right of each Party, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, to establish its own levels of environmental and labour protection, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws and policies, each Party shall seek to ensure that its laws, policies and practices provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protection, consistent with standards, principles and agreements referred to in Articles 10.5 and 10.7, and shall strive to further improve the level of protection provided for in those laws and policies. 2. The Parties recognise the importance of taking account of scientific, technical and other information, and relevant international standards, guidelines and recommendations when preparing and implementing measures related to the environment and labour conditions that affect trade and investment between them. 1. A Party shall not fail to effectively enforce its environmental and labour laws, regulations or standards in a manner affecting trade or investment between the Parties. 2. Subject to Article 10.3, a Party shall not:

Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. 1. Recognising the right of each Party, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, to establish its own levels of environmental and labour protection, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws and policies, each Party shall seek to ensure that its laws, policies and practices provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protection, consistent with standards, principles and agreements referred to in 1 When labour is referred to in this Chapter, it includes the issues relevant to the Decent Work Agenda as agreed on in the ILO. Articles 35 and 36, and shall strive to further improve the levels of protection provided for in those laws and policies. 2. The Parties recognise the importance, when preparing and implementing measures related to the environment and labour conditions that affect trade and investment between them, of taking account of scientific, technical and other information, and relevant international standards, guidelines and recommendations.

Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. 1. The Parties recognise the right of each Party to determine its sustainable development policies and priorities, to establish the levels of domestic environmental and labour protection it deems appropriate and to adopt or modify its relevant laws and policies. Such protection levels, laws and policies shall be consistent with each Party's commitments to the internationally recognised standards and agreements referred to in this Chapter. 2. Each Party shall strive to ensure that its relevant laws and policies provide for, and encourage, high levels of environmental and labour protection, and shall strive to improve such levels, laws and policies. 3. A Party shall not weaken or reduce the levels of protection afforded in its environmental or labour laws in order to encourage investment. 4. A Party shall not waive or otherwise derogate from, or offer to waive or otherwise derogate from, its environmental or labour laws in order to encourage investment. 5. A Party shall not, through a sustained or recurring course of action or inaction, fail to effectively enforce its environmental or labour laws in order to encourage investment. 6. The Parties shall not use their respective environmental or labour laws in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination or a disguised restriction on international investment.

Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising the right of each Party to establish its own levels of environmental and labour protection, and to adopt or modify accordingly its domestic laws, regulations and policies, each Party shall seek to ensure that its domestic laws, regulations and policies provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protection. Such levels of protection shall be consistent with international labour standards and the commitments of each Party under multilateral environmental agreements, as referred to in this Chapter. Each Party shall strive to further improve the levels of protection provided for in those laws, regulations and policies.

Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. Recognising the right of each Party to establish its own level of labour protection and to adopt or modify accordingly its domestic law and policies, each Party will seek to improve the levels of labour protection through its domestic law, policies and practices, consistent with standards and principles referred to in Article 2, taking into account its domestic context and priorities.

Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. 1. Recognising the right of each Party to establish its own level of environmental protection and to adopt or modify accordingly its domestic law and policies in a manner consistent with this Agreement, each Party will seek to ensure that its domestic law, policies and practices provide for and encourage high levels of environmental protection, consistent with standards, principles and agreements referred to in Article 8.5, and will strive to further improve the level of protection provided for in domestic law and policies. 2. The Parties recognise the importance, when preparing and implementing measures related to environmental protection that affect trade and investment between them, of taking account of relevant scientific, technical and other information, and relevant international standards, guidelines and recommendations.

Right to Regulate and Levels of Protection. 1. Recognising the sovereign right of each Party, in a manner consistent with this Agreement, to establish its priorities and its levels of environmental and labour protection, and to adopt or modify accordingly its relevant laws, policies and practices, each Party shall seek to ensure that its laws, policies and practices provide for and encourage high levels of environmental and labour protection consistent with the standards, principles and agreements referred to in Articles 8.5 (International Labour Standards and Agreements) and 8.6 (Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Environmental Principles) and shall strive to further improve the level of protection provided for in those laws, policies and practices. 2. The Parties recognise the importance of taking account of scientific, technical and other information, and relevant international standards, guidelines and recommendations, if existing, when preparing and implementing measures related to the environment and labour conditions that affect trade and investment between them.