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Three Decades of EU Risk Regulation Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2017

Ellen VOS
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Abstract

For nearly three decades scholars have studied issues of EU risk regulation, first presented as regulation of safety of products and persons,1 later on as true issues of risk regulation. This short comment will give brief, and at times personal, insights into the development on scholarly thinking on EU risk regulation and sketch a few challenges for the future.

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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 8 , Issue 1: Cambridge Inaugural Issue: The Past, Present And Future of Risk Regulation , March 2017 , pp. 47 - 51
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Maastricht University, Maastricht Centre for European Law; email: e.vos@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

References

1 C Joerges, J Falke, H-W Micklitz and G Brüggemeier, Die Sicherheit von Konsumgütern und die Entwicklung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (Baden-Baden: Nomos 1988), translations: European Product Safety, Internal Market Policy and the New Approach to Technical Harmonisation and Standards, EUI Working Papers Law Nos. 91/10-14: <http://www.iue.it/LAW/WP-Texts/Joerges91>; <http://hdl.handle.net/1814/73> and Hanse Law Review, No 2, Vol 6, Bremen: Hanse Law Review eV 2010.

2 WW Lowrance, Of Acceptable Risk: Science and the Determination of Safety (Los Altos, CA: W Kaufmann 1997).

3 E Vos, Institutional Frameworks of Community Health and Safety Regulation (Oxford: Hart Publishing 1999).

4 C Joerges, K Ladeur and E Vos, Integrating Scientific Expertise into Regulatory Decision-Making. National Traditions and European Innovations (Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Europäische Rechtspolitik, Band 23) (Baden-Baden: Nomos 1997).

5 C Joerges and J Neyer, “From Intergovernmental Bargaining to Deliberative Political Processes: The Constitutionalisation of Comitology” (1997) 3(3) European Law Journal 273.

6 Temporary committee of inquiry into BSE, Report on alleged contraventions or maladministration in the implementation of Community law in relation to BSE, without prejudice to the jurisdiction of the Community and national courts, A4-0020/97.

7 E Vos, “EU Food Safety Regulation in the Aftermath of the BSE Crisis” (2000) Journal of Consumer Policy 227; D Chalmers, “Food For Thought, Reconciling European Risks and Traditional Ways of Life” (2003) 4 Modern Law Review 532.

8 See U Beck, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (SAGE 1986); id., World Risk Society (Polity Press 1999).

9 S Jasanoff, The Fifth Branch. Science Advisers as Policymakers (Harvard University Press 1990).

10 E Fisher, “Framing Risk Regulation: A Critical Reflection” (2014) 2 European Journal of Risk Regulation 125.

11 MBA van Asselt, M Everson and EIL Vos, “Trade versus health and the environment?” in MBA van Asselt, M Everson and EIL Vos (eds), Trade, Health and the Environment. The European Union Put to the Test (London: Routledge/Earthscan 2014) 3.

12 C Joerges, “Scientific Expertise in Social Regulation and the European Court of Justice: Legal Framework for Denationalised Governance Structures” in Christian Joerges, Karl-Heinz Ladeur and Ellen Vos (eds), Integrating Scientific Expertise into Regulatory Decision-Making. National Experiences and European Innovations (Nomos 1997) 320.

13 See, inter alia, J Scott, Commentary on the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Agreement (Oxford: OUP 2007; paperback 2009).

14 See e.g., E Fisher, Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism (Hart Publishing 2007); M Lee, “Beyond Safety? The Broadening Scope of Risk Regulation” (2010) Current Legal Problems 242; A Alemanno, Trade in Food: Regulatory and Judicial Approaches in the EC and the WTO (Cameron May 2007); C Joerges, “Law, Science and the Management of Risks to Health at the National. European and International Level – Stories on Baby Dummies, Mad Cows and Hormones in Beef” (2000) 7 Columbia Journal of European Law 1.

15 Case C-180/96.

16 J Scott, “On Kith and Kine (and Crustaceans), ‘Trade and Environment in the EU and WTO’” in JHH Weiler (ed), The EU, the WTO, and the NAFTA (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001) 125.

17 E.g., E Fisher, “Precaution, Precaution Everywhere: Developing a ‘Common Understanding’ of the Precautionary Principle in the European Union” (2002) 9(1) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 7; EC Fisher, JS Jones and R von Schomberg (eds), Implementing the Precautionary Principle: Perspectives and Prospects (Cheltenham: Edward Elger Publishing, 2006); P Harremoës, D Gee, M MacGarvin, A Stirling, J Keys, B Wynne, S Guedes Vaz, The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century: Late Lessons from Early Warnings (London: Earthscan 2002); N de Sadeleer, “The Precautionary Principle in EC Health and Environmental Law” (2006) 12(2) ELJ 139; JB Wiener, MD Rogers, JK Hammit and P Sand (eds), The Reality of Precaution: Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe (Routledge 2011); M Haritz, An Inconvenient Deliberation: The Precautionary Principle’s Contribution to the Uncertainties Surrounding Climate Change Liability (Kluwer 2011); V Heyvaert, “Facing the Consequences of the Precautionary Principle in European Community Law” (2006) 31(2) European Law Review 185; G Majone, “What Price safety? The Precautionary Principle and its Policy Implications” (2002) 40(1) JCMS 89; J Scott and E Vos, “The Juridification of Uncertainty: Observations on the Ambivalence of the Precautionary Principle within the EU and the WTO” in C Joerges and R Dehousse (eds), Good Governance in Europe’s Integrated Market (Oxford University Press 2002) 253; D Vogel, The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States (Princeton University Press 2010); J Zander, The Application of the Precautionary Principle in Practice, Comparative Dimensions (Cambridge University Press 2010).

18 E.g., Maria Weimer, “Risk Regulation, GMOs, and the Challenges to Deliberation in EU Governance – Politicization and Scientification as Co-Producing Trends” in C Joerges and C Glinski (eds), The European Crisis and the Transformation of Transnational Governance – Authoritarian Managerialism versus Democratic Governance (Hart 2014); P Dąbrowska-Klosińska, “EU Governance of GMOs: political struggles and experimentalist solutions?” in C Sabel and J Zeitlin (eds), EU Governance: Towards a New Architecture? (Oxford University Press 2010) 177; M Lee, EU Regulation of GMOs: Law, Decision-making and New Technology (Edward Elgar 2008).

19 E.g., T Ehnert, “The Legitimacy of New Risk Governance: A Critical View in Light of the EU’s Approach to Nanotechnologies in Food” (2014) 21(1) European Law Journal 44.

20 E.g. H Micklitz and T Trimidas (eds), Risk and Law (Edward Elgar 2015).

21 M Everson and E Vos, “The Scientification of Politics and the Politicisation of Science” in M Everson and E Vos (eds), Uncertain Risks Regulated (Routledge/Cavendish Publishing 2009) 12.

22 MBA van Asselt and EIL Vos, “The Precautionary Principle and the Uncertainty Paradox” (2006) 9(4) Journal of Risk Research 313; MBA van Asselt and E Vos, “Wrestling with Uncertain Risks: EU Regulation of GMOs and the Uncertainty Paradox” (2008) 11 Journal of Risk Research 281.

23 See e.g., O Renn, “Risk Governance: Towards an integrative approach” IRGC White Paper No 1 (2006) International Risk Governance Council (IRGC), Geneva, Switzerland; O Renn and A Klinke, “A New Approach to Risk Evaluation and Management: Risk-Based, Precaution-Based and Discourse-Based Strategies” (2002) 22(6) Risk Analysis 1071.

24 M Dreyer and O Renn (eds), Food Safety Governance. Integrating Science, Precaution and Public Involvement (Heidelberg: Springer 2009).

25 Andreas Klinke, Marion Dreyer, Ortwin Renn, Andrew Stirling and Patrick Van Zwanenberg, “Precautionary Risk Regulation in European Governance” (2006) 9(4) Journal of Risk Research 373.

26 RE Löfstedt, Risk Management in Post-trust Societies (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan 2005).

27 G Majone, “Foundations of Risk Regulation: Science, Decision-making, Policy Learning and Institutional Reform” (2010) 1 European Journal of Risk Regulation 5.

28 E Fisher “Framing Risk Regulation: A Critical Reflection” (2014) 2 European Journal of Risk Regulation 125.

29 Idem.

30 S Jasanoff, Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the US (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2005).

31 D Curtin, “Overseeing Secrets in the EU: A Democratic Perspective” (2014) 52(3) JMCS 684; V Abazi, Secrecy and Oversight in the European Union. The Law and Practice of Classified Information, (CPI Koninklijke Wohrmann 2015).

32 See for this approach, MBA van Asselt, E Versluis and EIL Vos (eds), Balancing Between Trade and Risk. Integrating Legal and Social Science Perspectives (Earthscan Routledge 2013).

33 E.g. A Alemanno and A Sibony (eds), Nudge and the Law: A European Perspective (Hart 2015).

34 A De Boer, Interactions between Nutrition and Medicine in Effect and Law (Maastricht 2015).