Institutional Frameworks of Community Health and Safety Regulations
Committees, Agencies & Private Bodies
Published on 1. October 1998
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-1-901362-74-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
...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. Stephen Tromans Journal of Environmental Law September 2002More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
0 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-901362-74-9 (9781901362749)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Introduction: regulating risk; dealing with risk under community law; regulatory models - committees, agencies and private bodies. Part 1 The community's involvement in health and safety regulations: the emergence of community health and safety regulation; community competence and its legal basis; concurrent powers between the community and the member states. Part 2 Deepening of community health and safety regulation: deepening of community involvement in health and safety regulation - towards community implementation; the relationship between community legislation and implementation; the implications of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality for the deepening of community activities in health and safety regulation; the institutional balance of powers; difficulties flowing from the increasing reliance on the commission in health and safety regulation. Part 3 Health and safety regulation through committees - the case of foodstuffs: the rise of committees within the community's institutional structure; the competence of the community to create committees; committees and the institutional balance of powers; health and safety regulation through committees - the case of foodstuffs. Part 4 Health and safety regulation through agencies - the case of pharmaceuticals: the rise of agencies within the community's institutional structure; the competence to establish agencies under the treaty provisions; health and safety regulation through agencies - the case of pharmaceuticals; delegation of powers to the European standardisation bodies?; legitimacy of decision-making and standard-setting. Part 5 Health and safety regulation through private bodies - the case of technical product standards: health and safety regulation through private bodies - the case of technical product standards. Conclusion; community health and safety regulation through committees, agencies and private bodies; in search of legitimate community health and safety regulation; towards a theoretical conceptualisation of community risk regulation.