In recent decades, a series of regulatory agencies has been created at the European Union (EU) level. The existing literature on EU agencies focuses either on autonomy as reason for their creation or on the autonomy that they are granted by design. As a result, we do not know much about how EU...

The protection of geographical indications, organic certification and food quality assurance schemes are the cornerstones of European food quality policy. In this paper the importance of these voluntary quality policy schemes in the different Member States of the European Union is investigated....

One of the primary outcomes of this thesis has been to develop an assessment model of the operational and organisational structure with regard to the AMOR approach (Alliances for the Mutual Organisation of Risk oriented inspection strategies). The AMOR model comprises the formation of an...