The Mercosur’s environmental policy: models, critiques and alternatives

• Autor(a) principal: Velho, Rafael Rott de Campos
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Direito Internacional
• DOI: 10.5102/rdi.v9i3.1879
• Texto Completo: https://www.publicacoesacademicas.uniceub.br/rdi/article/view/1879
• topic: Direito; Direito Internacional Público; Regulação ambiental. Estratégias. Mercosul.

The aim of this study is to analyze how the MERCOSUR has been treating its environmental policy, based on three strategic models of regulation applicable to economic integration areas: regulatory competition, harmonization and cooperation, which is, in fact, a hybrid formula with some advantages if compared with the two others. The approach method used is the deductive one, starting from the abstract models with the scope of verifying the adequacy of MERCOSUR to them. The survey showed that the trade bloc in question has adopted an Environmental Agreement, which has characteristics of a cooperative model. However, in the factual context that followed the agreement, it was not possible to identify major features of this strategy of regulation. This way, it was possible to conclude that, in fact, there is a competition regulatory in the MERCOSUR environmental policy. There are few studies on environmental regulation in MERCOSUR, fact that shows the importance of this research, especially when it’s considered its original approach based on strategic models of environmental regulation.