Trade in Food: Regulatory and Judicial Approaches in the EC and the WTO

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Cameron May, 2007 - 540 pages
Trade in Food surveys and explores the evolution of the European Community's regulation of food within the broader framework set out by the WTO Agreements. Its main purpose is to provide readers keen to deepen their knowledge of the field with easy access to the EC and WTO food laws accompanied by a critical explanation and commentary. The book is suitable for legal practitioners, judges, policy-makers, officials of international organizations as well as post graduate students of international trade law and policy, international and European economic law, global administrative law and risk regulation.

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Contents

Foreword
15
Introduction
37
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61
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Risk Communication
78
2
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within the
100
The Pfizer Judgment
130
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325
Introduction
327
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367
Comparing Food Safety Risk Analysis Schemes
387
The Integration of Other Legitimate Factors into the EC and
395
What Role for the Precautionary Principle?
407
Conclusions
417

Recent Case Law
134
the Courts the Challenge of Reviewing
141
The European Food Safety Authority the Cornerstone
161
the Scientific Point of
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3
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C
175
4
202
1
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3
217
Mutual Recognition and Equivalence
274
Permission for Precautionary Action
280
Notification and Transparency Requirements
289
Risk Regulations in EC and WTO Law
297
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The WTO and Scientific Justification
307
Why do both the EC and the WTO Rely on Science?
313
The WTO Regulation of Food
320
Comparing Standards of Review
425
A Procedural Intensityvariable Standard of Review for Science
432
Introduction
439
Conclusion
443
Comparing Food Safety Regulatory Frameworks
476
Annex EC
485
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Annex GATT
499
se EC
502
Historical Background of the GATTWTO Regulation
517
Index
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