Private Party Standing and EU Risk Regulation
Standing determines a person’s ability to obtain judicial review of a legal act by the government. Judicial review of EU measures, including risk regulatory measures, is an important device to ensure that the rule of law is respected. Even after the changes brought about by the Lisbon Treaty, private parties still have limited standing rights under EU law to challenge EU risk regulations.While they are able to challenge “decisions” addressed to them (or, in some cases, addressed to others), they generally have been unable to claim standing at the European courts to seek reviewof generally binding rules. These restricted standing rights for private parties have been the subject of debate and criticism, both before and after the changes brought about by the Lisbon Treaty.
This article discusses the EU law standing requirements for private parties, the rationale and justification for the current restrictive conditions, and the effects of expanded standing for private parties on the legality, quality and effectiveness of EU risk regulation. Thus, the focus is not on the formal legitimacy, but on the functional characteristics of judicial review. Of course, standing extends beyond risk regulation, and, the current restricted standing rights and any future expanded standing rights apply more broadly to any generally binding EU rules. There would appear to be no reason to limit an expansion of standing rights to risk regulation. Nevertheless, risk regulation may be different from other areas of regulation in that it relies heavily on science, involves a relatively high number of precautionary measures, and may be seriously politicized. As a result, the need for court review in the area of risk regulation may be greater, because the risk of unlawful decisions driven by politicized, precautionary science and activist policy-makers is greater. It is not the purpose of this paper, however, to explain exactly how the issues are different for risk regulation, as opposed to other areas. Rather, I assume that enhanced standing is particularly important for risk regulatory measures, based on the theoretical argument set out above. Even if one rejects this assumption, however, it is still beyond doubt that standing rights are also highly relevant to risk regulation.
| Copyright: | © Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH | |
| Quelle: | Issue 03/2016 (September 2016) | |
| Seiten: | 12 | |
| Preis inkl. MwSt.: | € 41,65 | |
| Autor: | Prof. Dr. Lucas Bergkamp  | |
| Artikel weiterleiten | In den Warenkorb legen
| Artikel kommentieren |
Diese Fachartikel könnten Sie auch interessieren:
Reporting of food waste in the EU – Results of current estimates in Germany
© Lehrstuhl für Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben (11/2020)
In February 2019, the German Federal Cabinet adopted the 'National Strategy for Reducing Food Waste', setting a framework for the future direction of this initiative. Among other things, it stipulated that an inter-ministerial "Indicator 12.3 Working Group" should prepare the data bases and methods for nationwide balancing of food waste generation (baseline). Based on existing 2015 data, this status quo analysis will be used as a starting point to agree on milestones for the respective sectors.
Circular economy from an SDG perspective: A multi-stakeholder process for developing policy options
© Lehrstuhl für Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben (11/2020)
Based on a longitudinal case study (the UniNEtZ project in Austria), which includes a multi-stakeholder involvement, we investigate the process of developing CE policies for the Austrian Federal Government from an SDG perspective. Within this context, the main research question is how multi-stakeholder processes can enable the development of CE policy options. The study thus contributes to providing a structured approach of how different stake-holders from academia, industry, research funding agencies and government collaborate, how knowledge is created and transferred within this multi-stakeholder process, and what outputs, outcomes and impacts can be realized at the national level in the context of developing CE policies using an SDG framework.
The circular packaging design guideline and holistic sustainability assessment in circular economy
© Lehrstuhl für Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben (11/2020)
The FH Campus Wien Circular Packaging Design Guideline provide recommendations for circular design for the whole supply chain. Circular design is a necessary prerequisite to achieve the goals of the European Circular Economy Package which requires full recyclability of packaging by 2030. Circular packaging should re-duce resource consumption and environmental impacts of packaging. The assessment of packaging sustainability requires the calculation of direct and indirect environmental impacts and circularity at the same time. A method for holistic sustainability assessment of packaging has been proposed by FH Campus Wien and developed in an ECR-working group (Efficient Consumer Response) with the participation of a number of companies along the whole supply chain (brand owners, retailers, packaging manufacturers and packaging systems).
Abfallvermeidung im österreichischen Lebensmittelgroßhandel
© Lehrstuhl für Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben (11/2020)
Die im Oktober 2019 veröffentlichte Studie des Österreichischen Ökologie-Institut, in Kooperation mit dem WWF Österreich und Kastner erhebt erstmals Zahlen für den Anfall an Lebensmittelabfällen im österreichischen Lebensmittelgroßhandel. Insgesamt 10.300 Tonnen Lebensmittel im Wert von 21,5 Millionen Euro werden in diesem Sektor entsorgt. Das erhöht auch die Zahl der gesamten Lebensmittelabfälle in Österreich.
Das Interreg-Projekt COCOON – Erfahrungsaustausch auf dem Gebiet des Deponiemanagements
© Lehrstuhl für Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben (11/2020)
Das Landesamt für Umwelt Brandenburg ist Partner in einem Projekt des EU-Interreg-Programms mit der Kurzbezeichnung COCOON. Diese Abkürzung steht für „Consortium for a coherent European Landfill management and mining“.
