EU-US trade agreement: the issues of consumer protection and food safety
Briefing
05-12-2012
Non-tariff barriers and regulatory divergence are considered as the main challenge for a potential comprehensive EU-US trade and investment agreement. Stemming from different values, public preferences and different approaches towards risk management, these regulatory issues are greatest in the fields of protection of health, safety and the environment. Efforts in transatlantic regulatory cooperation date back to the 1990s, but progress has been difficult to achieve.
Briefing
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- agricultural activity
- agricultural product
- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- America
- consumer protection
- consumption
- economic geography
- electronic commerce
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- food safety
- GEOGRAPHY
- health
- intellectual property
- international trade
- marketing
- nanotechnology
- negotiation of an agreement (EU)
- non-tariff barrier
- political geography
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- research and intellectual property
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- technology and technical regulations
- TRADE
- trade agreement (EU)
- United States