The Impact of WTO SPS Law on EU Food Regulations

• Main Author: Downes, Chris (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation, 2
• Subjects: Law.; Public health.; Public international law.; International law.; Agricultural economics.; European Law.; Agricultural Economics.; Public Health.; Public International Law.

This book brings a fresh perspective on the emerging field of international food law with the first detailed analysis of the process and implications of domestic compliance with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement. It investigates the influence of WTO discip...

Table of Contents:

• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Table of Cases
• Table of Contents
• 1 Introduction
• Part I What Lawyers Expect from the SPS Agreement and Why.- 2 Evaluating the Impact of International Law: A Taxonomy of Analytical Choices
• 3 The Standard View of the SPS Agreement: A Literature Review.- Part II Reviewing Expectations of SPS Constraint on Domestic Food Regulations in the European Context.- 4 Is Science Really The Only Thing That Counts? An Evaluation of the SPS Agreement’s Expectations of Science in the Context of EU Food Policy
• 5 Bringing in the Old and the New: The Influence of the SPS Agreement on the EU Novel Food Saga
• Part III The SPS in Action: The Emerging Transnational Governance of Food
• 6 SPS Mechanisms for a Transnational Approach to Food Governance: Transparency and Equivalence.- 7 Is Codex Alimentarius All Talk? The Importance of Standards in Transnational Food Governance
• 8 Conclusion
• Appendix I
• Appendix II
• Appendix III
• Index.