Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU: A Legal-Economic Perspective (Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship, 6)

This book analyses EU food law from a regulatory, economic and managerial perspective. It presents an economic assessment of strategies of food safety regulation, and discusses the different regulatory regimes in EU food law. It examines the challenges of food safety in the internal market as well as the regulatory tools that are available. The book's generic theorising and measurement of regulatory effects is supplemented by detailed analysis of key topics in food markets, such as health claims, enforcement strategies, and induced risk management at the level of the organizations producing food. The regulatory effects discussed in the book range from classical regulatory analysis covering e.g. effects of ex-ante versus ex-post regulation and content-related versus information-related regulation to new regulatory options such as behavioral regulation. The book takes as its premise the idea that economic considerations are basic to the design and functioning of the European food supply arena, and that economic effects consolidate or induce modification of the present legal structures and principles. The assessments, analyses and examination of the various issues presented in the book serve to answer the question of how economic theory and practice can explain and enhance the shaping and modification of the regulatory framework that fosters safe and sustainable food supply chains.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-vi Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU: A Legal-Economic Perspective (Harry Bremmers, Kai Purnhagen)....Pages 1-9 Private Food Safety Standards in the EU (Tetty Havinga)....Pages 11-37 Investigating the Regulatory Structure of Voluntary Sustainability Standards: Foundations for Intervention Strategies to Increase Consumer Confidence (Eva van der Zee)....Pages 39-55 Environmental Sustainability and the Food System (Alessandro Banterle, Elena Claire Ricci, Alessia Cavaliere)....Pages 57-88 EU Health Claims: A Consumer Perspective (Erica van Herpen, Hans C. M. van Trijp)....Pages 89-104 Regulatory Compliance and Company Strategies: The Case of the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation (EC) No. 1924/2006 (Stefanie Bröring, Sukhada Khedkar)....Pages 105-128 Foods for Specific Consumer Groups (Silvia L. Schmidt)....Pages 129-150 Commanding to “Nudge” via the Proportionality Principle? (Kai Purnhagen, Ellen van Kleef)....Pages 151-167 Obesity, Fat Taxes and Their Effects on Consumers (Silke Thiele, Jutta Roosen)....Pages 169-193 Substance Over Form: A Principle for European Food Information Regulation? (Harry Bremmers)....Pages 195-215 European Food Law and the Precautionary Principle: Paradoxical Effects of the EU’s Precautionary Food Policies (Lucas Bergkamp, Jaap C. Hanekamp)....Pages 217-244 Enforcement of European Food Laws (Franziska Weber)....Pages 245-262 The Economics of Harmonization of Food Law in the EU (Michael Faure)....Pages 263-290 Pre-Market Approval and Its Impact on Food Innovation: The Novel Foods Example (Martin Holle)....Pages 291-330 Agricultural Biotechnology: Regulation in the United States and the European Union (Margaret Rosso Grossman)....Pages 331-380 "This book analyses EU food law from a regulatory, economic and managerial perspective. It presents an economic assessment of strategies of food safety regulation, and discusses the different regulatory regimes in EU food law. It examines the challenges of food safety in the internal market as well as the regulatory tools that are available. The book's generic theorising and measurement of regulatory effects is supplemented by detailed analysis of key topics in food markets, such as health claims, enforcement strategies, and induced risk management at the level of the organizations producing food. The regulatory effects discussed in the book range from classical regulatory analysis covering e.g. effects of ex-ante versus ex-post regulation and content-related versus information-related regulation to new regulatory options such as behavioral regulation. The book takes as its premise the idea that economic considerations are basic to the design and functioning of the European food supply arena, and that economic effects consolidate or induce modification of the present legal structures and principles. The assessments, analyses and examination of the various issues presented in the book serve to answer the question of how economic theory and practice can explain and enhance the shaping and modification of the regulatory framework that fosters safe and sustainable food supply chains."-- Back cover