The Agri-Food Legislation and Trade Agreements

What is it about?

This article performs an assessment of the EU Agri-food legislation in the context of the COVID-19 crisis: new priorities into a new scenario. Taking the General Food Law as a focal point, this article analyses and explains the institutional, substantive and procedural elements of EU food law and his intersection with International Trade Law. _x000D_ In fact, it is interesting to retrace the points of contact that food legislation share with other legal disciplines since it is well known that the matter has a cross-cutting scope, i.e. from Agricultural Law to IP Law, from Union Law to International Trade Law. Although, the importance and cruciality of food and related trade issues have always been regulated in times of emergency, as the BSE crisis (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, commonly known as “mad cow disease”) or during a worldwide pandemic (COVID-19)._x000D_ However, until the the publication of the Reg. 178/2002, it would have been impossible any given attempt to attribute the requisites of a coherent legal framework to the disordered, episodic and often dictated by hot reactions of Food Law, understood as a system of rules ordered based on its own principles. Progress made by regulatory interventions that allows today to observe the matter under a different angle.

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