Risk Regulation and Precaution

Pesendorfer, Dieter

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“…Moreover, it strengthened collaboration among public authorities beyond the state in their effort to reduce externalities through regulatory schemes (national agencies collaborate with one another and with the EU institutions). The EU General Food Law also ascribes to the contested "precautionary principle" in the attempt to ensure higher food health quality and safety for the consumers and decrease risks for harm (Pesendorfer, 2011).…”

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The dynamics of the transnational food chain regulatory governance

Chatzopoulou

2015

British Food Journal

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Purpose -The need for food safety and food quality standards is acknowledged by public regulators, private actors, and the society. The purpose of this paper is to identify the types of actors in the multilevel transnational food chain regulatory governance and how their interlinking affects regulatory outcomes over time. Design/methodology/approach -Food chain regulatory standards emerge within a complex process beyond the state. Based on interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, namely regulatory governance and political economy, this paper provides a integrative framework of analysis by identifying the types of actors and their interactions in the food chain regulatory governance. Findings -Food chain regulatory standards setting have been mainly studied either from the public regulator or the firm self-regulating point of view. This paper demonstrates how the political and economics dynamics of the interactions among public and private actors operate within the transnational food standards setting process. The study identifies the groups of interdependent actors (public and private) that interact within the transnational food chain regulatory process and develop public-private regulations, self-regulations, and co-regulations over time. In this process, the actors' different power, operational and regulatory capacity, experience, resources affect the regulatory outcome with socio-economic and governance implications.Research limitations/implications -The paper does not examine in detail how these interactions operate empirically on specific regulations. Practical implications -The paper offers an integrative thorough understanding of the food chain regulatory standard setting process, relevant for academics, policy makers, the industry, and society. Originality/value -The paper constitutes new research by identifying the actors and interactions in the integrative regulatory governance of the food chain standards.

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The dynamics of the transnational food chain regulatory governance

Chatzopoulou

2015

British Food Journal

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With license to build: Chinese offshore wind firms rejecting European certificates

Korsnes

Ryghaug

2016

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

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This paper examines the role of six European certification firms, and how they attempt to position themselves in China's offshore wind industry. These firms may be seen as intermediaries in technology development processes, and we examine their importance in an emerging renewable energy industry in China, offshore wind. We find that European certification firms lack attention to local needs and struggle with differences in risk perceptions. Chinese companies, on their part, stress the importance of first-hand experience rather than foreign involvement in project development, making the efforts of European certification companies redundant. We therefore conclude that the Chinese development strategy is in opposition to established European certification practices: From a Chinese perspective, the European approach looks like over-engineered project development, whilst in China taking risks, gaining access to necessary experienced and 'independent' knowledge is seen as a precondition for developing the offshore wind industry. Highlights: European certification agencies have been unsuccessful in selling their services to companies in China's emerging offshore wind industry due to differences in risk perception, views on the service industry and lack of attention to Chinese needs  European certificates are unwanted in China because Chinese companies stress the importance of gaining first-hand experience  Intermediaries coming from abroad are not important in China's offshore wind industry, and this is also likely to be the case for other Chinese industries  The right design for innovation policy and risk regulation must be evaluated locally

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Risk Regulation and Precaution

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The dynamics of the transnational food chain regulatory governance

The dynamics of the transnational food chain regulatory governance

With license to build: Chinese offshore wind firms rejecting European certificates

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