11. EFSAâs role as an independent authority: a comparative perspective

M. Salvador MartÃ­nez

11. EFSAâs role as an independent authority: a comparative perspective

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M. Salvador MartÃnez

M. Salvador MartÃnez Full Professor of Constitutional Law, Department of Political Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Distant Education (UNED), c/Obispo Trejo 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain.

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-845-2_11

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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is an EU agency specialised in food safety, an independent authority of a scientific nature intended to be the independent scientific source of recommendation, information and communication of any kind of risk related to the food chain. It began to operate in 2003 and by 2009 was already working at full capacity with all the necessary means in order to fulfil its mandate. In its thirteen years of functioning it has performed very significant work in many different fields (animal health and welfare, biological hazards, pesticides and contaminants, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), nutrition as well as food and feed additives). Its activity embraces some very polemic areas, especially GMOs, and given that the latter are the subject of an intense debate reflecting highly conflicting views, this debate has also inevitably reached the EFSA and its actions as an independent authority. The specific purpose of this work is to analyse the EFSA as an independent authority: what is an independent authority, why is it created, how is its independence legally guaranteed, (organisation, operating procedures, etc.), to what extent does it achieve this objective and what problems does it pose. This analysis will be undertaken with a comparative perspective, given that independent authorities are a category of public bodies that have existed for some time in all the Constitutional States that make up the EU.

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Towards a new regulatory framework for GM crops in the European Union

Scientific, ethical, social and legal issues and the challenges ahead

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Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 11 Sep 2017

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