Elemente şi provocări ale regimului juridic privind sănătatea mediului. Cazul perturbatorilor endocrini
Elements and Challenges of the Legal Regime Regarding the Environmental Health. The Case of Endocrine Disruptors

Summary/Abstract: The adequate comprehension, approach and regulation of sanitary and environmental risks imply a complex public intervention, expressed by pertinent evaluations, corresponding strategies, policies, and legal regulations, structured and correlated at a national, EU, and international level. The reality of the general exposure of the population to new pathogenic factors and the new approach to environmental health require transparent and consistent knowledge efforts regarding the issues of prevention, resorption and control of the new threats and their consequences on human health and quality of the environment. It is therefore necessary to have adequate and efficient juridical responses, elaborated and adopted at a legislative, case-law and doctrine level. A new major challenge consists in the endocrine disruptors, having a more evident and negative impact on health, being difficult to frame in preexisting patterns (their limits resonating not as thresholds, but as “exposure windows”), with complex economic and social stakes, whose regulation is strongly dependent on scientific expertise. Adopting and enforcing strategies and action plans at a national level, the emergence of the first regulations in this field, initiating a EU strategy of fighting endocrine disruptors, starting form a legal definition, and the inscription of the proposal on the agenda and priorities of the World Health Organization create a juridical and institutional general framework of action in this field.

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