Biotechnology

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Justo Corti Varela
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Eu Legislation ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Modern Biotechnology ◽  
National Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Food Value ◽  
The Eu

This section aims to update readers on decisions related to marketing products of modern biotechnology (e.g., GMOs, animal clones) at EU level and on national measures concerning their production. Special attention is devoted to problems of competence between Member States and the EU in regulating biotechnology issues; the institutional dynamics of decision making regarding products derived from modern biotechnology; the relationship between the EFSA and the EU institutions on green biotech-related issues; the evolution of EU regulatory framework and of national attitudes towards the risks and benefits of biotechnology derived products and their production. This section will also delve into the interaction between the EU legislation and WTO law regarding advances in the application of biotechnology within the agri-food value chain.

It’s (just) Chemistry, Stupid! Or Not?

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-425
Author(s):  
Justo Corti Varela
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Eu Legislation ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Modern Biotechnology ◽  
National Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Food Value ◽  
The Eu

This section aims to update readers on decisions related to marketing products of modern biotechnology (e.g., GMOs, animal clones) at EU level and on national measures concerning their production. Special attention is devoted to problems of competence between Member States and the EU in regulating biotechnology issues; the institutional dynamics of decision making regarding products derived frommodern biotechnology; the relationship between the EFSA and the EU institutions on green biotech-related issues; the evolution of EU regulatory framework and of national attitudes towards the risks and benefits of biotechnology derived products and their production. This section will also delve into the interaction between the EU legislation and WTO law regarding advances in the application of biotechnology within the agri–food value chain.

Recent Developments in EU Biotech Regulation: A Possible Solution to the Deadlock on Authorizations of GM Crops?

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-152
Author(s):  
Vessela Hristova
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Eu Legislation ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Modern Biotechnology ◽  
National Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Food Value ◽  
The Eu

This section aims to update readers on decisions related to marketing products of modern biotechnology (e.g., GMOs, animal clones) at EU level and on national measures concerning their production. Special attention is devoted to problems of competence between Member States and the EU in regulating biotechnology issues; the institutional dynamics of decision making regarding products derived from modern biotechnology; the relationship between the EFSA and the EU institutions on green biotech-related issues; the evolution of EU regulatory framework and of national attitudes towards the risks and benefits of biotechnology derived products and their production. This section will also delve into the interaction between the EU legislation and WTO law regarding advances in the application of biotechnology within the agri-food value chain.

Will Chemical Packages be the only Future for Biotechnology? Why the Bayer-Monsanto Merger Could be a Good Opportunity to Put Things in the Right Place

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 782-783
Author(s):  
Justo Corti Varela
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Modern Biotechnology ◽  
National Attitudes ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Food Value ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThis section aims to update readers on decisions related to marketing products of modern biotechnology (e.g., GMOs, animal clones) at EU level and on national measures concerning their production. Special attention is devoted to problems of competence between Member States and the EU in regulating biotechnology issues; the institutional dynamics of decision making regarding products derived from modern biotechnology; the relationship between the EFSA and the EU institutions on green biotech-related issues; the evolution of EU regulatory framework and of national attitudes towards the risks and benefits of biotechnology derived products and their production. This section will also delve into the interaction between the EU legislation and WTO law regarding advances in the application of biotechnology within the agri-food value chain.

6. Legislation and Decision-Making

EU Law ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 155-193
Author(s):  
Paul Craig ◽  
Gráinne de Búrca
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Eu Legislation ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
Ordinary Legislative Procedure ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Academic Debate

All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter, which discusses the process by which the EU enacts legislation and makes decisions, begins by considering the making of legislative acts. This includes the Treaty rules and practice concerning the initiation of the legislative process, and how the ordinary legislative procedure, in which the Council and EP act as co-legislators, has come to occupy centre stage. The focus then shifts to the making of delegated acts followed by an analysis of how implementing acts are made. The chapter concludes with discussion of democracy in the EU, and evaluates the extent to which the EU might be said to have a democracy deficit. The UK version contains a further section analysing issues concerning EU legislation and decision-making in relation to the UK post-Brexit.

5. Democracy and the EU

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-118
Author(s):  
Tapio Raunio
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
European Level ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Input Legitimacy ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines the relationship between European integration and democracy. The continuous transfer of policy-making powers from European Union (EU) member states to the European level has raised serious concerns about democratic legitimacy. The chapter assesses the claims that European integration undermines national democracy, and that decision-making at the EU level is not sufficiently democratic. It argues that while significant challenges remain, European integration has definitely become more democratic over the years. But there is perhaps a trade-off, with stronger input legitimacy potentially an obstacle to efficient European-level decision-making. It also underlines the multilevel nature of the EU polity and the importance of public debates about European integration.

scholarly journals The Unexpected Negotiator at the Table: How the European Commission’s Expertise Informs Intergovernmental EU Policies

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng-Hsuan Chou ◽  
Marianne Riddervold
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Maritime Security ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Alternative Hypotheses ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
Military Mission ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Intergovernmental Policy ◽  
External Migration ◽  
The Eu

How, if at all, does the Commission’s expertise inform intergovernmental decision-making within the EU? In this article, we aim to capture the relationship between the Commission’s expertise and its influence within intergovernmental policy-areas through a study of Commission influence in two least likely sectors: security and defence policies (military mission <em>Atalanta </em>and EU Maritime Security Strategy) and external migration (EU mobility partnerships with third countries). In these cases we observe that the Commission strongly informs policy developments even though it has only limited formal competences. To explore whether and, if so, how this influence is linked to its expertise, we develop and consider two hypotheses: The <em>expert authority hypothesis </em>and the <em>expert arguments hypothesis. </em>To identify possible additional channels of influence, we also consider the relevance of two alternative hypotheses: The <em>strategic coalition hypothesis</em> and the <em>institutional circumvention hypothesis</em>. We find that the Commission’s use of its expertise is indeed key to understanding its <em>de facto</em> influence within policy-areas where its formal competences remain limited. Our findings add to the existing literature by revealing how expertise matters. Specifically, our cases show that the Commission informs intergovernmental decision-making by successfully linking discussions to policy-areas where it holds expert authority. However, the Commission also informs EU policies by circumventing the formal lines of intergovernmental decision-making, and by cooperating with member states that share its preference for further integration.

The EU Policy on Return of Illegally Staying Third-Country Nationals

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuela Canetta
Keyword(s):  
Decision Procedure ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Common Procedure ◽  
Member States ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Eu Legislation ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Third Country Nationals

AbstractThe purpose of this article is to analyse the EU policy on return of illegally staying third-country nationals, focusing in particular on the draft EU legislation: the Proposal for a Directive on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (COM/2005/391). This paper studies the context, the objectives and the most relevant measures of the proposed Directive in order to identify its critical juridical aspects as regards the fundamental rights of third-country nationals. It analyses the on-going negotiations for its adoption, considering in particular the exercise of co-decision procedure, which is new in this policy domain, and the link with the EU Return Fund, to see how the EU inter-institutional dynamics influence the establishment of provisions regulating the rights and status of immigrants subject to a return procedure. The current findings show that the adoption of the proposed Directive is not an easy exercise: the issue is very sensitive and the on-going negotiations are long and difficult. Other institutions and various NGOs support the harmonisation process but criticise a number of provisions of the draft measure. EU institutions urgently need to find a strategy that could lead to the necessary agreement for the adoption of a 'clear, fair and transparent common procedure respecting fundamental rights'.

Legal and political hybridity of the European Union – genetically modified organisms’ case

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Monika Szkarłat
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Gm Plants ◽  
Decision Making System ◽  
Modern Biotechnology ◽  
The Eu

The European Union can be described as a particular hybrid integration structure that combines features of a state and intergovernmental organisation. Its institutional framework, legal system and division of competences are examples of a supranational organisation or a transnational decision-making system. The decision-making process is an outcome of network interactions between multiple actors, whose relations are non-hierarchically ordered. Genetically modified organisms (GMO) as an example of modern biotechnology application is a highly polarising subject in the EU, as well as globally. Thus, the policy towards GMO is an exemplification of legal and political hybridity of the EU. The analysis of the EU’s legal and political hybridity will be narrowed down to the GM plants case and methodologically organised around the concept of decision-making analysis that is composed of five categories: decision-making situation, actors, decision-making process, decision, implementation of the decision

scholarly journals Participation by national parliaments in the EU legislative process

ERA Forum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Cygan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
National Parliaments ◽  
Treaty Of Lisbon ◽  
Political Dialogue ◽  
Eu Legislation ◽  
Democratic Practices ◽  
The Eu

AbstractEuropeanisation has marginalised national parliaments and their democratic practices leading to a ‘de-parliamentarisation’ within the EU. The Treaty of Lisbon included substantive provisions designed to improve participation by national parliaments in EU decision-making, the most significant of which is the allocation of subsidiarity monitoring. This was intended to address concerns that national parliaments are peripheral within the EU Polity, and that EU legislation lacks legitimacy amongst its citizens. Protocols 1 and 2 of the Treaty of Lisbon promote a horizontal political dialogue between national parliaments within subsidiarity monitoring, but, experience of the last ten year indicates that this has not improved legislative legitimacy, nor adequately addressed de-parliamentarisation. This article argues that, while the Treaty of Lisbon has enhanced the privileges of national parliaments, they have not been ‘re-centred’ as an influential collective bloc of actors within the EU’s institutional framework.

scholarly journals Steven Blockmans and Sophia Russack (eds.): Representative Democracy in the EU: Recovering Legitimacy.

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Vanessa Horler
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
National Level ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Parliamentary Democracy ◽  
National Parliaments ◽  
Member States ◽  
The World ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu

Representative democracy is beset by a crisis of legitimacy across the world, but in Europe this crisis is compounded by the inadequacy of national governments to address citizens’ frustrations and to achieve transnational unity on common issues. How representative are national parliaments in their decision-making on EU matters? This volume investigates the relationship between the democratic institutions of the member states and those of the EU. With a focus on polity rather than policy, it looks at voting and decision-shaping mechanisms in selected member states, in particular the ‘Europeanisation’ of representative democracy at national level. It also assesses the state of parliamentary democracy at the EU level. Expert analysts share their insights into the changing nature of our political eco-systems and the (dis)connections within and between them.

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