Abstract
This contribution lays bare the structure of EU food law as it appears from scholarly analysis at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. The structure of EU food law can be used as a framework for teaching, application, further analysis and comparison to food law approaches in other parts of the world. From this analysis, food law emerges as a functional area of law. Core elements are: (1) the objectives of EU food law to protect consumers’ interests; (2) the principles of risk analysis and precaution; (3) obligations on businesses regarding the products they place on the market, the processes they apply and their communication towards consumers; and (4) public powers of law enforcement and incident management.
Highlights
Systematisation is not limited to education: “all other actors in the legal system receive their training from the scholars who transmit to them a comprehensive and highly-ordered model of the system that to a great extent controls how they organise their knowledge, pose their questions and communicate with each other
Almost immediately legislation started to develop addressing food as a commodity in its own right.9. This legislation originated from the directorate general (DG) responsible for agriculture, but eventually emphasis shifted to the DGs responsible for industry, enterprises and the internal market
That is to say that I have been looking for the system behind the law and have taken this system as a structure for presenting the subject matter
Summary
The objective of this article is to provide the readers with the “big picture” of EU food law in the form of a structured representation. Systematisation is not limited to education: “all other actors in the legal system receive their training from the scholars who transmit to them a comprehensive and highly-ordered model of the system that to a great extent controls how they organise their knowledge, pose their questions and communicate with each other. This model is taught in the universities but constitutes the latent framework of the treatises and articles produced by the professors. Our current understanding of the structure of EU food law is presented in graphic form and is further elaborated in the remainder of this article
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