The Implementation of the Precautionary Principle Regarding Food Law
The Implementation of the Precautionary Principle Regarding Food Law
Author(s): Maria Carolina NiţăSubject(s): EU-Legislation
Published by: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien/ Österreichisch-Rumänischer Akademischer Verein
Keywords: the precautionary principle; food safety; risk management; identification of danger; characterization of danger; the exposal evaluation; characterization of risk; risk analysis;
Summary/Abstract: The precautionary principle, mentioned in article 191 from the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, has the role of guaranteeing a high level of environment protection through making preventive decisions against hazards. In practice, the implementation area of this principle is wider and implemented even in the European law regarding food, human, animal and plants’ health, with the aim of ensuring a high level of protection regarding food safety. The precautionary principle can be invoked when phenomena, a product, or a process can have dangerous effects, identified through a scientific and objective evaluation, but an evaluation which does not allow a strong enough identification of the risk, and the implementation is compiled in the general frame of risk analysis, to be more precise, in the context of managing the risk which corresponds to the decision making stage.
Journal: Conferința Internațională Educație și Creativitate pentru o Societate Bazată pe Cunoaștere - DREPT
- Issue Year: VII/2013
- Issue No: VII
- Page Range: 124-130
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English