Esiste già una stretta relazione commerciale e di investimento tra l’UE e il Messico. Nel 1997 l’UE e il Messico hanno firmato un accordo di partenariato economico, coordinamento politico e cooperazione. Noto come «accordo globale», esso comprendeva una parte sugli scambi, che ha liberalizzato s...
Geothermal energy has significant untapped potential for both electrical and direct-use applications in the EU. Currently, 'traditional' hydrothermal applications are most common for electricity production, but if EGS technology is proven the technical potential increases significantly. The tech...
The European Commission identified trade policy as a core component of the European Union’s 2020 Strategy. The fast changing global economy, characterised by the dynamic creation of business opportunities and increasingly complex production chains, means that it is now even more important to ful...
Competition problems may exist in markets that cannot adequately be addressed using the ‘antitrust’ rules in Articles 101 and 102 TFEU or through the use of ex ante merger control. The question then arises whether other mechanisms can be devised to identify harms to competition and to identify r...
Patents are exclusive rights granted for inventions, i.e. technical solutions to problems, which could consist of a product, process or use, as far as they are considered: New, and thus not included in the state of the art. The state of the art comprises everything that has been made available t...
Borders and customs are the major point of entrance of counterfeit and pirated products into Mexico. Every month the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), together with the custom authorities, seize hundreds of thousands of pirated and copycat products (collectively named as “pirated ...
This report has been developed to provide a picture of the application of core labour standards in Mexico. The report is based on a combination of desk research and stakeholder interviews. The assessments of the issues covered in the report are based on the views of credible international organi...
