Research Handbook on EU Agriculture Law

Following the conclusion of the latest round of reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2013, the Research Handbook on EU Agriculture Law provides an up-to-date discussion of these reforms and the changing landscape in which the CAP now operates. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, and with international contributors from across Europe and the United States, the Handbook commences with analyses of the legal instruments which implement the reformed CAP, before moving on to consider questions of land use, the role of agriculture within the wider food chain and the international dimension. In these contexts, particular issues identified include: the environmental impact of past, present and future farming practices; the ability of the food chain to accommodate consumer preferences and scientific innovation; and the hurdles to be cleared before international consensus can be reached on a whole range of agricultural imperatives. As well as providing a state-of-the-art point of reference for academics, this comprehensive book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers dealing with these new challenges faced by agriculture in the EU.

PART I THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY 1. What does the History of the Common Agricultural Policy Tell Us? David Harvey 2. The Direct Payments Regime: Delivering ‘a Fair Standard of Living for the Agricultural Community’? Michael N. Cardwell 3. The Single Common Market Organization Regulation Jan Vandenberghe 4. Risk Management in Agriculture: What Role for Policy in the New Common Agricultural Policy? Jesús Antón PART II LAND USE AND THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY 5. Agricultural Multifunctionality, Working Lands and Public Goods: Contested Models of Agri-environmental Governance under the Common Agricultural Policy Clive Potter 6. Twisted Together: European Agriculture, Environment and the Common Agricultural Policy David Baldock 7. Environmental Governance and Land Use Policy in Tension? Applying Environmental Impact Assessment to Intensive Agriculture Christopher Rodgers 8. The Common Agricultural Policy in 2020: Responding to Climate Change David Blandford and Katharina Hassapoyannes 9. European Union Biofuels Policy: Past, Present and Future? Stephanie Switzer 10. Agriculture and Water Pollution Brian Jack 11. Integrated Water Resources Management and the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy William Howarth PART III THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND THE FOOD CHAIN 12. Food Labelling Requirements in European Union Law: Creating the Right Package of Measures to Achieve the Aims of Common Agricultural Policy 2020 Caoimhín MacMaoláin 13. The New European Regulation on Quality Schemes for Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs Irina Kireeva 14. Organic Food and Farming in the European Union Tim Josling 15. Of Eggs, and Seals, and Leghold Traps: Internal and External Public Morality as a Factor in European Union Animal Welfare Legislation Roderic O’Gorman 16. Co-existence of Genetically Modified Organisms in the European Union: a Veritable Choice for Whom? Mary Dobbs 17. Food Safety Policy in a Time of Technofoods: Risk, Governance and Legal Issues Relating to Nanofoods Luc Bodiguel and Alessandra Di Lauro PART IV THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION 18. The Impact of the Doha Round on the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy Bernard O’Connor 19. Mind the Gap: ‘Greening’ Direct Payments and the World Trade Organization Fiona Smith 20. The Story of Community Preference for Food Security Christian Häberli 21. The European Union Common Agricultural Policy: Contributing towards the Millennium Development Goal on the Reduction of Hunger? Melaku Geboye Desta 22. The Common Agricultural Policy and Development Alan Matthews 23. Implementing the European Consensus on Development: Trade and Agriculture Joseph A. McMahon PART V CONCLUSIONS 24. Looking Back to Look Forward Michael N. Cardwell and Joseph A. McMahon Index