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• Title: Legitimising Supranational Risk Regulation: The EU Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Regimes.
• Author : German Policy Studies
• Release Date : January 22, 2008
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 313 KB

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1 Introduction: Input and Output vs. Input or Output Supranational risk regulation--i.e. the regulation of potentially dangerous products in the European Single Market--is problematic in respect to its democratic legitimacy for two reasons. Firstly, like all supranational policy-making, it could suffer from the EU's 'democratic deficit'. It is often argued that the EU lacks democratic legitimacy, because it is not well-enough controlled by a strong parliament (e.g. Follesdal/Hix 2006), it has a neo-liberal bias (Scharpf 1999) and it is too distant from its citizens, who do not constitute a European demos (Weiler 1995). If these arguments hold true, this would of course also affect the regulation of the Single Market by the Commission and various expert bodies. And secondly, supranational risk regulation is often even more detached from public scrutiny than other areas of EU policy-making. It usually takes place in technocratic bodies like expert and member state committees or regulatory agencies. These bodies are not democratically elected and are thus not directly responsible to EU citizens. Besides, their decision-making is often very intransparent or even takes place behind closed doors. Consequently, much criticism which is addressed to the EU in total might hold even truer for one of its core competencies--the regulation of the Single Market.

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