E-FOOD: Closing the Online Enforcement Gap in the EU Platform Economy

Dr Maria José Plana Casado is Assistant Professor of Law at Wageningen University, where she coordinates the Comparative Food Law Course and teaches EU food Law; member of the Bioethics & Law Observatory of the University of Barcelona (UB), and co-director of the UB Master in Food Ethics & Law. She has conducted research visits at prestigious academic institutions such as the Food Law & Policy Clinic of Harvard University, the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, University of Bologna’s CIRSFID. Her research focusses on Food & Law, in particular in the fields of e-commerce, food information, food safety and hygiene, and sustainable public procurement.

• Online Marketplaces: a Disruptive Environment for the Enforcement of EU (Food) Law.- Part 1: EU Law for the E-Food Market.- The Developing History of Online Marketplace Regulation in the EU.- EU Food Law in the Platform Economy.- Regulating Food Official Controls in the Digital Single Market.- Part 2: Bridging the Enforcement Gap In Online Marketplaces.- The Public E-nforcement Challenge in the E-food Market.- Germany’s Take on E-food Control.- The United Kingdom’s Strategy for Bridging the Enforcement Gap.- Bringing EU Food Law and its Enforcement into the Platform Economy.- Conclusions: EU (Food) Law is not fit for purpose in the Platform Economy