Havanna: Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Huck zum Thema: “The role of Sustainable Development Goals of the UN in the field of the International Economic Law and vice versa”

  • 04.11.15 11:20
  • Ahmed Tahar Benmaghnia

Havanna: Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Huck zum Thema: “The role of Sustainable Development Goals of the UN in the field of the International Economic Law and vice versa”

In dem historischen Anfiteatro der Rechtsfakultät der Universität Havanna hielt Prof. Dr. Huck am 4.11.2015 einen Vortrag (engl.) zu der Frage, wie die am 25.9.2015 beschlossenen Nachhaltigkeitsziele der UN das internationale Wirtschaftsrecht beeinflussen und vice versa.

Probably everybody is aware of the fact that the Heads of State and Government and High Representatives, meeting at United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York have decided on 25. September 2015 on new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The UN has promulgate 17 SDGs with 169-detailed associated goals, to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030. The new Goals and targets will come into effect on 1 January 2016 and will guide the decisions over the next 15 years. 

 

  

v.l.n.r.: Prof. Dr. Huck, Prof. Dr. Andry Matilla Correa, Prof. Dr.

Yuri Pérez Martínez

  SDGs are at a first glance obvious non-binding; also they refer often to applicable international and national law with prime importance. But are the SDGs only a declaration? However, it should be scrutinized, to what extend SDGs influence the International Economic Law (IEL) and vice versa. The impact of the IEL to the SDGs remains quite clear. The engine of Trade will lead to prosperity, but mostly not for all, so that there should be safeguards to look after and care for vulnerable groups, in particular indigenous people, but also girls and women.

The World Trade Organization is responsible for carrying out an unfinished framework of sustainability integrated in the Doha Development Agenda. The vacuum presented by the lack of success was and is filled by numerous mega regional Free Trade Agreements (e.g. TTIP, TTP, TISA), which help to neutralize the single undertaken approach and the legal main principle of the WTO law based on equality. Never before the world was given such a broad and detailed agenda (SDGs), addressed to not only states and Institutions of the UN, but moreover to various societies (e.g global compact) and people.

Everybody should feel responsible and should take action to make the world better. This may emanate on diverse levels a free will focused on legal consequences, which may originate an overall relevant legal will concentrate on the application of the SDGs. This seems to be quite realistic scenario for creating a relevant “opinio iuris”. In a second step and over the timeline from 15 years, the states and all other relevant stakeholders should implement the SDGs in their legal framework, so that at least this will produce the “longa consuetudo”, the practice of state and others, to fulfill and complete the second provisions of customary binding international law.
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