On EU Environmental Policy And Its Impact On Sino - EU Trade

As the most politically and economically integrated regionally international organization in the world, the European Union (EU) has been always walking on the front row of the world in the aspect of the environmental protection. European Union's environmental policy embodies both advanced ideas and extensive experience of the contemporary environmental law, and is worthy to use for reference. With the rapid growth of trade between EU and China, conflicts between trade liberation and environmental protection become much more evident, and environmental barriers occur more frequently. Therefore, European Union's environmental policy is now and will be significantly influencing the bilateral trade between the EU and China.The function of European Union's environmental policy was created and strengthened in the process of European integration. At the early period of European Communities (EC), environmental protection was not on the list of EC's common policy system, and it was mainly constituted and implemented by each member. After nearly forty years development, European Union's environmental policy already covers various kinds of subjects, becomes an integrated legislation and domination, with its gradual maturation and completion. EU's environmental policy has been an important part of European integration.This paper elaborated the evolution of EU's environment policy's evolution and its main content, pointed out the executive mechanism as well as the principles; then put forward the significance of the relationship between environment and trade, and further illuminated EU's relevant policy towards this issue with practical justice. Subsequently, green barriers, the main component of barriers for China-EU bilateral trade, was summarized and analyzed, and finally legal suggestion was proposed for the solution of the barrier.The aim to study EU's environmental policy is to harmonize the relationshipamong economy, society, environment and sustainable development; to provide some reference for the improvement of China's environmental policy system;and to further promote the bilateral trade relations between China and EU.