Institutional Frameworks of Community Health and Safety Legislation: Committees, Agencies and Private Bodies - Couverture rigide

Vos, Ellen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1901362744 ISBN 13 : 9781901362749

Editeur : Hart Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ellen Vos is Marie Curie Fellow of ZERP.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hart Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1901362744
• ISBN 13: 9781901362749
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 408
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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