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2. Regulation, Standards and Risk Management in the Context of Globalization

verfasst von : John Humphrey

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Abstract

Humphrey analyses trends in public regulations and private standards in three areas: sustainability standards in forest management, standards for food safety and product-related environmental regulations for chemicals. He explains why private standards have expanded their role in regulating trade, and also emphasizes the continuing role of public regulations and the ways in which public regulations have shaped private standards. In both areas, he shows how the increased use of preventive controls in both public regulations and private standards adopted in importing countries has far-reaching effects in exporting countries. They change the way businesses make products and show that they meet regulatory requirements and customer requirements, and they impact upon the regulatory environment of exporting countries.

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Fußnoten
1
Quoted in de Burca et al. (2013: 735).
 
2
In this paper regulation is an activity will be applied to both public and private initiatives. When considering particular instruments, there will be reference to private standards (which do not have the force of law) and public regulations (which do).
 
3
The difference between a standard and a standards scheme is that a standard is a series of rules for behavior. A standards scheme also has rules, but they are complemented by monitoring and enforcement mechanisms that are designed to ensure compliance. For a discussion of the activities involved in the creation and operationalization of private standards, see Henson and Humphrey (2010, 2012).
 
4
One of the drivers of these tendencies in the EU is the extension of the mechanisms for managing the internal market in the EU to relations with non-EU trading partners. Changes in food safety legislation, for example, were undertaken in response to the crisis in EU food safety and the recognition that variations in practice within the EU were not sustainable in the context of a single market.
 
5
Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification.
 
6
Some standards schemes may combine a variety of product and process standards. Standards relating to good agricultural practices, for example, can be aimed simultaneously at impact issues such as protecting the environment and product issues such as food safety.
 
7
The term “social goal” indicates that the goal of the regulation is to affect something which has consequences external to the enterprise. If all the costs and benefits of a firm’s actions impacted clearly, directly and unambiguously on the firm, there would be no need for regulation.
 
8
By the end of 2011, these included Ghana, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Indonesia and Liberia (Overdevest & Zeitlin, 2014: 36).
 
10
For food of animal origin, registration of processing plants, assessments of the competence of food safety authorities in exporting countries and the importer obligations create a much more stringent regime.
 
11
These safety regulations for food of animal origin have been tightened in recent years, partly in response to food safety crises such as BSE (mad cow disease), which has led to greatly increased controls on live cattle and abattoirs.
 
12
As will be seen subsequently, this approach to information requirements bears parallels with the requirements on the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to prove that chemicals are harmful before imposing restrictions.
 
13
See also, Vincent (2004) and Vogel (2003).
 
14
The scheme was later extended to a range of other agriculture and aquaculture products.
 
15
As Coglianese and Lazer (2003: 699) point out, there are varying degrees of oversight associated with management-based regulation. This can range from no examination of the systems put into place up to detailed analysis of the steps taken to ensure conformance to legislation.
 
16
The rule for food processing establishments does not endorse third-party certification, but it does state that “to the extent that scientific and technical information available from GFSI or another standard setting organization provides evidence that a control measure, combination of control measures, or the food safety plan as a whole is capable of effectively controlling the identified hazards, a facility may use such information to satisfy the validation requirements of the rule” (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2015: 56054).
 
17
See also the account by Simon (2012: 20–21) of these Conventions.
 
18
According to Hansson and Rudén, this lack of information extends even to the chemicals produced in the largest volumes (Hansson & Rudén, 2010: 72).
 
19
Similar arguments are made by Schwarzman and Wilson (2011: 103–104).
 
20
For an analysis of the content of the REACH legislation and what it is designed to achieve, see Karlsson (2010), Biedenkopf (2015) and Heyvaert (2010).
 
21
For further discussion of the use of the data on chemicals generated by REACH, see Biedenkopf (2015: 125–126).
 
22
For countries closely tied to the EU market, such as the countries of the European Economic Area, there is no choice but to closely harmonise domestic regulations with those applying within the EU (Heyvaert, 2010: 230–231).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Regulation, Standards and Risk Management in the Context of Globalization
verfasst von
John Humphrey
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55041-1_2