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Rationality within REACH? On Functional Differentiation as the Structural Foundation of Legitimacy in European Chemicals Regulation

Kjaer, Poul - European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law - 2007

This paper analyses the potential legitimacy basis of REACH, the new regulatory system for the EC chemicals market. It … threefold legitimacy basis reflects the hybrid nature of the regulatory structure of REACH. It is, however, also argued that the … of an adequate legitimacy basis for transnational regulatory structures. In addition, functional differentiation must be …

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Conflict of laws as constitutional form: Reflections on the International Trade Law and the Biotech Panel Report

Joerges, Christian - RECON - 2007

Hardly anywhere is the trend towards a perfection of transnational governance arrangements and their legalization more visible than in international trade. Governance arrangements established through and alongside WTO law are both practically important and theoretically challenging. They do not...

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The Standard of Review in WTO Law: An Analysis of Law, Legitimacy and the Distribution of Legal and Political Authority

Zleptnig, Stefan - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 10

important issue of strengthening the legitimacy of the dispute settlement system, and a possible role for the standard of review …

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Experts, Citizens, and Eurocrats Towards a Policy Shift in the Governance of Biopolitics in the EU

Abels, Gabriele - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 12

(biotechnology). The changes refer to the basic concept of how to govern the relationship between science and society, experts and …

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'Deliberative Supranationalism' A Defence

Joerges, Christian - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5 (2001) 07

This paper is essentially a translation of a comment in German (Joerges 2000) on a series of articles in which Rainer Schmalz-Bruns (1998, 1999a, 1999b) developed a concept of legitimate governance beyond the constitutional state, which he called deliberative supra-nationalism and contrasted...

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Applying precaution in Community authorisation of genetically modified products: Challenges and suggestions for reform

Weimer, Maria - RECON - 2009

principle, precaution requires EU regulators to strike a balance between scientific and political legitimacy when taking … the extremes of either purely science-based decision-making or a highly politicised precautionary rhetoric. I suggest that …

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