The European agricultural sectors and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) face the triple challenge of productivity increase to meet increasing demands for food, fibre and energy, pressing public policy issues regarding public health and nutrition and the public good components of agricultural...

On 12 April 2018, the European Commission published a Proposal for a directive on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the food supply chain, COM(2018) 173 final (‘UTPD’). Currently, the European Parliament and the Council review the proposal. In this paper, we...

Behavioural forms of regulation, e.g. nudging and debiasing, increasingly take centre stage in regulatory agendas and are making their way into consumer law. In order to warrant for an effective implementation from a legal point of view, findings from behavioural sciences need to confirm with...

Stakeholder groups have different interests in health claims which may be complementary but also conflicting. It is not clear on beforehand, how managers should deal with legal requirements on claims. Nor is it clear how legal authorities can adjust the present claims regime to address market,...

The lack of harmonized collective redress mechanisms in EU private international law results in a substantial increase of litigation risks that are hardly manageable for insurers. Regulation of collective redress mechanisms at EU level is hence desirable. The vertical right to a fair trial as...

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the regulations on e-commerce protection rules in China and the European Union. It starts by giving a general overview of different approaches towards consumer protection in e-commerce. This article then scrutinizes the current legal system in...

Deviating from constitutional approaches of internal market regulation, I will first provide an introduction to internal market regulation and its development from an economic perspective. I will weave the precautionary principle in this rationale of internal market regulation and highlight the...