Free Trade Agreements and Patterns of Risk Regulation in the EU and the US
Transatlantic regulatory patterns overall and in four key sectors: food, automobiles, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals indicate that the EU risk regulation is not always or generally more stringent or precautionary than the US regulation. In fact, the reality is a complex mix of parity and particularity. While there is overall EU-US similarity, there is also variation. In some risk matters, and across and within sectors, there is more precaution in Europe, whereas in others it may be in the US. Even if they are unusual deviations, and even if they go in both directions, transatlantic regulatory differences can still pose barriers to trade that may in some cases warrant harmonization. However, regulatory variation can also be the basis for learning to improve future regulatory design, both by comparing outcomes across regulations in different jurisdictions, and by planning adaptive regulation over time. International regulatory cooperation does not simply mean adopting the current standard of one side or the other. It can also involve collaboration to reviewing existing regulations and designing new approaches that improve outcomes for all.
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International Risk Governance Council (Switzerland)
À propos de ce document
Type de publication
Domaine politique
- Agriculture et développement rural
- Commerce international
- Droit de la propriété intellectuelle
- Droit des contrats, droit commercial et droit des sociétés
- Droit international privé et coopération judiciaire en matière civile
- Droit international public
- Emploi
- Environnement
- Industrie
- Marché intérieur et union douanière
- Politique de recherche
- Protection des consommateurs
- Sécurité des aliments
- Tourisme
- Transports
- Valeur ajoutée européenne
- Évaluation du droit et des mesures politiques dans la pratique
Mot-clé
- accord de libre-échange
- Amérique
- chimie
- commerce international
- construction européenne
- GÉOGRAPHIE
- géographie politique
- géographie économique
- INDUSTRIE
- libération des échanges
- législation alimentaire
- législation pharmaceutique
- négociation d'accord (UE)
- organisation des transports
- politique commerciale
- politique commerciale commune
- politique internationale
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGIE ET RECHERCHE
- produit chimique
- produit pharmaceutique
- QUESTIONS SOCIALES
- RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES
- relations transatlantiques
- réglementation technique
- santé
- sécurité des aliments
- technologie et réglementation technique
- TRANSPORTS
- UNION EUROPÉENNE
- véhicule à moteur
- ÉCHANGES ÉCONOMIQUES ET COMMERCIAUX
- États-Unis