EU food law / Hanna Schebesta, Kai Purnhagen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schebesta, Hanna, author.

Purnhagen, Kai, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food law and legislation--European Union countries.

Food law and legislation.

Produce trade--Law and legislation--European Union countries.

Produce trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Hanna Schebesta and Kai Purnhagen offer an authoritative and comprehensive overview of EU food legislation. The authors examine how political paradigms have shaped the development of laws in a variety of domains, including hygiene rules, food labelling, EU organic laws, and the current sustainability turn.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I-The Legal Foundations of EU Food Law

Part II-The General Food Law Regulation and Food Law Enforcement

Parts III-VII-the Food Law Acquis

Part VIII-international Food Law

Part I European Integration and Food Law

1 The Genesis and Evolution of EU Food Law

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The EU Treaties: the Political Foundations of European Integration

1.3 Political Paradigms Shaping EU Legislative Harmonization in the Area of Food

1.4 Conclusions

2 The EU Web of Competences and Food Law

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Food and Competences

2.3 Food and Fundamental Rights

2.4 Conclusion

3 EU Institutions and Their Role in Food Policy and Law Making

3.1 Introduction

3.2 EU Institutions and Their Role in Policy and Law Making

3.3 EU Law Making-who Makes What Kind of Law, and How?

3.4 Reflection

4 Internal Market Law and Food

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Food and the Free Movement of Goods: the Origins

4.3 An Inventory of the Case Law On the Free Movement of Foods

4.4 Internal Market Secondary Legislation: Notification Duty and Conditional Mutual Recognition

4.5 Conclusion: Is the Internal Food Market Complete?

Part II Food Safety Umbrella Laws The General Food Law Regulation and the Official Controls Regulation

5 The General Food Law Regulation (GFLR) and Transparency Amendment

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Adoption of the GFLR and Modification Through the Transparency Regulation

5.3 GFLR Structure, Aim and Objective, Scope and Definitions

5.4 Principles of the GFLR, Articles 5-10 (Horizontal/transversal Nature)

5.5 General Obligations of Food Trade (Articles 11-13)

5.6 The Rules of the General Food Law Requirements of Food Law (Articles 14-21)

5.7 European Food Safety Authority.

5.8 Risk Response: Rapid Alert System, Crisis Management, and Emergencies (Articles 50-57)

5.9 Procedures and Final Provisions

5.10 Reflection On the GFLR

6 Official Controls Regulation and Food Law Enforcement

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Enforcement Under the GFLR

6.3 Official Controls Regulation

6.4 Conclusions

Part III Food Technology Law

Exceptions to the 'Free Marketing of Food Principle'

7 Pre-Market Authorizations of Novel Products Novel Food Regulation

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Novel Food Regulation (NFR)

7.3 Legal Base and Objectives

7.4 Scope of the NFR

7.5 Consultation Process to Determine the Novel Food Status

7.6 The Marketing of Novel Foods Is Restricted to Inclusion On the Union List

7.7 EFSA Risk Assessment Procedures for Novel Food

7.8 The New Data Ownership Turn in Novel Food Authorizations

7.9 Reflections

8 Genetically Modified Food

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The EU GMO Legal Framework

8.3 Main Requirements of GMO Deliberate Release and GM Food and Feed Frameworks

8.4 Traceability and Labelling of GM Food

8.5 Proposal On Plants Obtained By Certain New Genomic Techniques and Their Food and Feed

8.6 Discussion

9 Food Improvement Agents (Additives, Enzymes, Flavourings), and Use of Extraction Solvents

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Food Improvement Agents Package (Additives, Enzymes, Flavourings)

9.3 Food Additives

9.4 Food Enzymes

9.5 Food Flavouring

9.6 Processing Aids

9.7 Common Authorization Procedure: Commission Regulation (EU) 234/2011

9.8 Extraction Solvents

9.9 Discussion

Part IV Food Safety Law

10 Hygiene Legislation and Microbiological Criteria for Food

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Hygiene Legislation

10.3 The General Hygiene Regulation

10.4 The Hygiene Regulation for Animal Origin

10.5 Microbiological Criteria for Foodstuffs.

10.6 Discussion

11 Chemical Safety of Food Products

11.1 Introduction

11.2 EU Legal Framework for Contaminants (Unintentionally Added Substances)

11.3 'Intentionally Added' Substances

11.4 Discussion

12 Food Contact Materials

12.1 Introduction

12.2 'Food Contact Materials' Framework Regulation

12.3 The Regulation On Good Manufacturing Practices

12.4 EU Legislation On Specific Materials

12.5 Restrictions On the Use of Specific Substances

12.6 Discussion

Part V Food Information Law

Information Paradigm

The 'Average Consumer' Benchmark

Charter of Fundamental Rights

Other Provisions (Articles 168, 169 TFEU)

General Food Law Information Provisions

13 Food Information to Consumers Regulation

13.1 Introduction

13.2 The Food Information to Consumer Regulation

13.3 Objective, Scope, and Definitions

13.4 The Principles of Food Information Law

13.5 General Food Information Requirements and Responsibilities of FBOs

13.6 Mandatory Food Information

13.7 Voluntary Food Information

13.8 Discussion

14 Nutrition and Health Claims

14.1 Introduction

14.2 The Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation

14.3 Legal Base, Scope, and Objective

14.4 Overview of the NHCR and Definitions

14.5 Definition of Claims

14.6 Overarching Requirements for Nutrition and Health Claims

14.7 Nutrition Claims

14.8 Health Claims

14.9 The Application

14.10 EFSA's Opinion

14.11 Union Authorization

14.12 General and Final Provisions

14.13 Conclusion

Part VI Food Quality Law

Conceptual Clarifications Around Food Schemes

The Relationship Between Public and Private Standards

15 Organic Food

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Organics Regulation

15.3 Additional Rules On Official Controls

15.4 Trade With Third Countries

15.5 Procedural Aspects

15.6 Discussion.

16 EU Food Quality Schemes

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Food Quality Systems Regulation

16.3 Applications for PDO, PGI, and TSG and Their Placing On the Market

16.4 Discussion

Part VII Food Nutrition Law

17 Nutrition and Health in EU Food Law

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Foods for Specific Groups and Purposes (FSGaP) Regulation

17.3 Regulation On Food Fortification

17.4 Directive 2002/46/EC On Food Supplements

17.5 Discussion

Part VIII International Food Law

18 Food in a Globalized World International Food Law

18.1 Introduction

18.2 International Food Law and EU Food Law

18.3 International Law Under the Auspices of the UN

18.4 WTO Law and Food

18.5 Discussion

Future of Food Law-Conclusions and Outlook

Part I-European Integration and Food Law

Part II-Food Safety Umbrella Laws: the General Food Law Regulation and the Official Controls Regulation

Future-proofing Food Law-beyond Food Law

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 17, 2024).

ISBN:

9780198901570

0198901577

9780192583376

0192583379

OCLC:

1434112106