Journal
REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 274-292Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/rego.12320
Keywords
EU; food safety; harmonization; inspections; risk-based regulation
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- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/K006169/1]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany)
- Nederlands Organisatievoor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO, Netherlands)
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/K006169/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/K006169/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This article compares the implementation of EU food safety inspections based on risk in England, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, and finds significant differences in the conception and targeting of risk-based inspections, which have different implications for ensuring food safety within a harmonized single market.
This article advances scholarship on comparative regulation by moving beyond the conventional focus on formal law and EU comitology to assess the extent of 'practice convergence' in the implementation of EU regulation. Drawing on 50 key informant interviews, a survey, and policy document analysis, we compare how regulators in England, Germany, France and the Netherlands have implemented EU requirements that food safety inspections be 'risk-based'. Focusing on a clear dependent variable - risk-scoring methods - we find important differences in the conception and targeting of risk-based inspections; with starkly different implications for what kind of food businesses they need to target to ensure safety within an ostensibly harmonized single market. We attribute variation in the implementation of risk-based inspection to the ways that EU requirements were filtered through long-entrenched regulatory styles and modes of food business organization in each country, reinforcing preexisting inspection practices in the design of new risk-based tools.
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