Research handbook on EU agriculture law / edited by Joseph A. McMahon, Professor of Commercial Law, University College Dublin, Ireland; Michael N. Cardwell, Professor of Agricultural Law, University of Leeds, UK.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McMahon, Joseph A., 1960- editor.

Cardwell, Michael, editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in European law.

Research handbooks in European law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural laws and legislation--European Union countries.

Agricultural laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (608 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, United Kingdom : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Following the conclusion of the latest round of reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2013, the Research Handbook on EU Agriculture Law provides an up-to-date discussion of these reforms and the changing landscape in which the CAP now operates.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Table of cases; Table of legislation; PART I THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; 1. What does the history of the Common Agricultural Policy tell us?; 2. The direct payments regime: Delivering 'a fair standard of living for the agricultural community'?; 3. The Single Common Market Organization Regulation; 4. Risk management in agriculture: What role for policy in the new Common Agricultural Policy?; PART II LAND USE AND THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY

5. Agricultural multifunctionality, working lands and public goods: Contested models of agri-environmental governance under the Common Agricultural Policy6. Twisted together: European agriculture, environment and the Common Agricultural Policy; 7. Environmental governance and land use policy intension? Applying environmental impact assessment to intensive agriculture; 8. The Common Agricultural Policy in 2020: Responding to climate change; 9. European Union biofuels policy: Past, present and future?; 10. Agriculture and water pollution

11. Integrated water resources management and the European Union's Common Agricultural PolicyPART III THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND THE FOOD CHAIN; 12. Food labelling requirements in European Union law: Creating the right package of measures to achieve the aims of Common Agricultural Policy 2020; 13. The new European Regulation on Quality Schemes for Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs; 14. Organic food and farming in the European Union; 15. Of eggs, and seals, and leghold traps: Internal and external public morality as a factor in European Union animal welfare legislation

16. Co-existence of genetically modified organisms in the European Union: A veritable choice for whom?17. Food safety policy in a time of technofoods: Risk, governance and legal issues relating to nanofoods; PART IV THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION; 18. The impact of the Doha Round on the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy; 19. Mind the gap: 'Greening' direct payments and the World Trade Organization; 20. The story of Community preference for food security; 21. The European Union Common Agricultural Policy: Contributing towards the Millennium Development Goal on the reduction of hunger?

22. The Common Agricultural Policy and development23. Implementing the European Consensus on Development: Trade and agriculture; PART V CONCLUSIONS; 24. Looking back to look forward; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78195-462-3