The cultivation of GMOs in the EU: an example of multi-level and competitive governance
(2012) Conference of European Studies (CES): A Europe of diversities — Location: Boston (USA) (22.March.2012)
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- The European Union adopted in 2001 a directive on the cultivation of GMOs. The latter faced resistances of national and regional authorities in its implementation. Several member states have prohibited the cultivation of GMOs and regions organized themselves in a growing GMO-Free Regions Network, despite the legal uncertainty of the GMOs’ ban they enacted. The gap between the existing EU legislation and the positions of some member states and regions came to a head in March 2009 when the Council rejected the European Commission’s proposal requesting a couple of member states to repeal national measures banning the cultivation of GMOs. The Commission reacted to this deadlock situation by proposing, in 2010, a new regulation granting the “possibility for the Member States to restrict or prohibit the cultivation of GMOs in their territory”. This paper analyze how the center of decision regarding the right to ban the cultivation of GMOs might move from the European Union back to the Member States. Using a multi-level governance perspective, the dynamics and the relations between different levels of governance (regional, national and European), will be analyzed, as well as their effect on the position of the Commission. It relies on an extensive literature review, on a review of official documents and on semi-structured interviews with key actors of the European institutions and stakeholders realized in between March and June 2012.
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Delreux, T. (2012). The cultivation of GMOs in the EU: an example of multi-level and competitive governance. Conference of European Studies (CES): A Europe of diversities, Boston (USA). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/27829