Institutional Frameworks of Community Health and Safety Regulations

Zusatztext ...tracks in meticulous detail the development of the Community's involvement in health and safety regulation...Anyone seeking to understand the complex and obscure legal issues surrounding the BSE crisis will find Chapter 3 illuminating...There is much material in this book which will be relatively unfamiliar to UK environmental lawyers and which is not readily accessible elsewhere. Informationen zum Autor Ellen Vos is Marie Curie Fellow of ZERP. Zusammenfassung In this book, Dr Ellen Vos analyses the emergence of EC product safety regulation, which is explained as a reaction both to spill-over effects of the internal market policy, and to growing societal concerns regarding health and safety protection. Due to factors such as mutual distrust between the Member States, the 'post-Maastricht' Community is increasingly required to play a direct role in health and safety regulation. This has confronted the Community with regulatory problems relating to the assessment and management of risks. This book seeks to identify the principles of the resulting Community approach to risk regulation. It first elaborates the fundamental EU law concepts of competence, institutional balance, subsidiarity, delegation of powers in relation to health and safety. These legal concepts are then used to appraise the legality and the legitimacy of the three basic regulatory patterns typical of the Community approach to science-based decision-making: resorting to committees (in the food sector), to agencies (pharmaceuticals), and to private bodies (standardisation).Dr Vos concludes that, to date, Community risk regulation is pragmatic but lacks a coherent regulatory model. However, events following the BSE crisis suggest the Community may be taking the first tentative steps toward developing a general concept of risk regulation. Inhaltsverzeichnis CHAPTER 1- The Community's Involvement in Health and Safety RegulationCHAPTER 2 - Deepening of Community Health and Safety RegulationCHAPTER 3- Health and Safety Regulation through Committeesthe Case of FoodstuffsCHAPTER 4 - Health and Safety Regulation through Agenciesthe Case of PharmaceuticalsCHAPTER 5 - Health and Safety Regulation through Private Bodiesthe Case of Technical Product Standards...

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Ellen Vos is Marie Curie Fellow of ZERP.

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In this book, Dr Ellen Vos analyses the emergence of EC product safety regulation, which is explained as a reaction both to spill-over effects of the internal market policy, and to growing societal concerns regarding health and safety protection. Due to factors such as mutual distrust between the Member States, the 'post-Maastricht' Community is increasingly required to play a direct role in health and safety regulation. This has confronted the Community with regulatory problems relating to the assessment and management of risks.

This book seeks to identify the principles of the resulting Community approach to risk regulation. It first elaborates the fundamental EU law concepts of competence, institutional balance, subsidiarity, delegation of powers in relation to health and safety. These legal concepts are then used to appraise the legality and the legitimacy of the three basic regulatory patterns typical of the Community approach to science-based decision-making: resorting to committees (in the food sector), to agencies (pharmaceuticals), and to private bodies (standardisation).

Dr Vos concludes that, to date, Community risk regulation is pragmatic but lacks a coherent regulatory model. However, events following the BSE crisis suggest the Community may be taking the first tentative steps toward developing a general concept of risk regulation.

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CHAPTER 1- The Community's Involvement in Health and Safety Regulation CHAPTER 2 - Deepening of Community Health and Safety Regulation CHAPTER 3- Health and Safety Regulation through Committeesthe Case of Foodstuffs CHAPTER 4 - Health and Safety Regulation through Agenciesthe Case of Pharmaceuticals CHAPTER 5 - Health and Safety Regulation through Private Bodiesthe Case of Technical Product Standards