The European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) is an ambitious regional trade agreement, signed by both parties in 2019 and ratified by the European Parliament in February 2020. Like many other ‘new-generation’ RTAs, this agreement is well known for its WTO + and WTO-X provisions. This paper analyzes typical WTO + and WTO-X provisions of the EVFTA, focusing on their concepts, contents and legal enforceability. This paper argues that environmental and human rights protection provisions, which are ‘grafted’ into the regional trade legal system under the form of WTO-X provisions, do not have the same legal value as WTO + provisions. As a result, the EVFTA remains mainly a trade agreement and cannot be counted upon as the sufficient condition to establish harmonization between pillars of sustainable development.

欧盟-越南自由贸易协定 (EVFTA) 是一项雄心勃勃的区域贸易协定，双方于 2019 年签署并于 2020 年 2 月获得欧洲议会批准。其 WTO+ 和 WTO-X 条款。本文分析了EVFTA中典型的WTO+和WTO-X条款，重点分析了它们的概念、内容和法律可执行性。本文认为，以WTO-X条款的形式“嫁接”到区域贸易法律体系中的环境和人权保护条款，并不具有与WTO+条款相同的法律价值。因此，EVFTA 仍然主要是一项贸易协定，不能被视为在可持续发展支柱之间建立协调的充分条件。