Institutional Frameworks of Community Health and Safety Regulations

Ellen Vos is Marie Curie Fellow of ZERP.

• Introduction: regulating risk; dealing with risk under community law; regulatory models - committees, agencies and private bodies. Part 1 The community's involvement in health and safety regulations: the emergence of community health and safety regulation; community competence and its legal basis; concurrent powers between the community and the member states. Part 2 Deepening of community health and safety regulation: deepening of community involvement in health and safety regulation - towards community implementation; the relationship between community legislation and implementation; the implications of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality for the deepening of community activities in health and safety regulation; the institutional balance of powers; difficulties flowing from the increasing reliance on the commission in health and safety regulation. Part 3 Health and safety regulation through committees - the case of foodstuffs: the rise of committees within the community's institutional structure; the competence of the community to create committees; committees and the institutional balance of powers; health and safety regulation through committees - the case of foodstuffs. Part 4 Health and safety regulation through agencies - the case of pharmaceuticals: the rise of agencies within the community's institutional structure; the competence to establish agencies under the treaty provisions; health and safety regulation through agencies - the case of pharmaceuticals; delegation of powers to the European standardisation bodies?; legitimacy of decision-making and standard-setting. Part 5 Health and safety regulation through private bodies - the case of technical product standards: health and safety regulation through private bodies - the case of technical product standards. Conclusion; community health and safety regulation through committees, agencies and private bodies; in search of legitimate community health and safety regulation; towards a theoretical conceptualisation of community risk regulation.

...tracks in meticulous detail the development of the Community's involvement in health and safety regulation...Anyone seeking to understand the complex and obscure legal issues surrounding the BSE crisis will find Chapter 3 illuminating...There is much material in this book which will be relatively unfamiliar to UK environmental lawyers and which is not readily accessible elsewhere. Stephen Tromans Journal of Environmental Law September 2002