L’actio popularis nel sistema di risoluzione delle controversie dell’Organizzazione mondiale del commercio

The paper addresses the question if the remedies for violations of WTO obligations are also available to the member (s) whose individual rights have not been affected. The author does not consider that the obligations deriving from participation in the World Trade Organization are all either erga omnes partes or bilateral / reciprocal in nature. Instead, their qualification depend on the specific features and content of each obligation. According to the author, the Increasing economic inter-dependence between states implies that a breach of WTO obligations by one member is Likely to Affect, Directly or Indirectly, the economic interests of many, sometimes all, other WTO members. however, this does not signify that a form of actio popularis is provided to all WTO members for each and every breach of WTO rules.