EUROPEAN FOOD REGULATION AFTER ENLARGEMENT -- Half Title Page -- Nijhoff International Trade Law Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1. On Food and Europe-Introductory Remarks -- 1.1. Food -- 1.2. Europe -- 2. Research Question -- 3. Outline -- CHAPTER TWO: THREE REGULATORY APPROACHES TO THE DILEMMA OF THE EUROPEANISATION OF RISK REGULATION -- 1. Introduction: Theoretical Framework for Analysis of Risk Regulation-Regulatory Tools as Analytical Concepts -- 2. Mutual Recognition in Food Safety Regulation-Preserving Diversity or Comparative Advantage? -- 2.1. Unity in Diversity? The Ideological Foundations of the Common Market -- 2.2. Mutual Recognition -- 3. Scientific Risk Regulation-Re-Embedding Regulation in its Social Context -- 3.1. Risk in Legal Theory and Practice -- 3.2. Regulating Risk in Transnational Settings -- 4. Regulating Risk by the Use of Standards-the Market Implications of Safety Regulations -- 4.1. Standardisation as a Regulatory Concept -- 4.2. The Role of Standards in Transnational Safety Regulation -- 5. Conclusions: Balancing Incentives in Regulatory Reform -- CHAPTER THREE: WAYS AND MEANS OF REGULATING FOOD SAFETY IN EUROPE -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. An Evolutionary Analysis of Food Safety Legislation in Europe -- 1.2. The Background: The Evolution of the Common Market -- 2. The Legacy of an Agricultural Past versus the Implications of the Market-Integration Rationale -- 2.1. The Early Days of Regulation: Food Regulation as Part of an Agricultural Scheme -- 2.2. Food As Product: Market Regulation and the Free Movement of Goods -- 2.3. Between Farm and Fork: Integrating Decoupled Food Regulation -- 3. The Turn Towards Consumers: Developing the Safety Paradigm -- 3.1. Comitologising the Regulation of Foodstuffs.

3.2. The BSE Scandal and Its Regulatory Impact -- 3.3. New Food-Safety Policy: Between BSE Trauma and Enlargement Anxiety -- 4. Conclusions: Traces of the 'Social' in the European Legal Framework -- CHAPTER FOUR: THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN MARKET AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: THE EXAMPLE OF POLAND -- 1. A Bigger Europe in a Smaller World -- 1.1. Food Regulation in the Global Market -- 1.2. Europe as a Global Player -- 1.3. The Internal Challenges of the Bigger Europe -- 1.4. Food Trade in the Enlarged Europe -- 2. The Accession of the Polish Food Industry to the EU -- 2.1. The Evolution of Polish Food Law: Towards Meeting the Terms of Accession -- 3. Conclusions: Regulating Food in Enlarged European Union -- 3.1. Becoming European? -- 3.2. Some Observations from the Polish Accession Story -- 3.3. Bigger Market-Bigger Problems? -- CHAPTER FIVE: CONCLUSION -- 1. Do the Current Trends in Regulation Require Reconsideration? -- 2. Is Risk-Regulatory Reform Possible … and Desirable? -- 2.1. What Options Does the Theoretical Framework Suggest? -- 2.2. Which Directions of Reform Can We Conceive of in Europe? -- 2.3. Is Europe Ready for Such a Transition? -- 3. On Food and Europe-Closing Remarks -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- A) Documents -- a) EU Documents -- b) International Documents -- c) Polish Documents -- B) Literature -- INDEX.

Combining an empirical analysis of the evolution of EU food regulation with a theoretical study of selected mechanisms used in governing food, this book provides a critical outlook on the capacity of the regulatory system to accommodate increased post-enlargement diversity of socio-economic concerns.

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