EU Agricultural Law
Product details
Author: Joseph A. McMahon
Hardcover: 515 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford (22 Nov 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1904501656
ISBN-13: 978-1904501657
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3 cm
Product Description
The Common Agricultural Policy is one of the most developed of the common policies of the EU and has been a model for many of the general principles of EU Law. To date, discussion of the policy has centred on the political and financial problems that have arisen, rather than the legal aspects of the policy. This book examines those legal aspects through the evolution of the CAP. It traces the legal transformation of the CAP from a market and price-driven policy towards its current emphasis on the multifunctionality of European agriculture and the development of a common food policy, incorporating food safety and quality, animal health and welfare and the protection of the environment. This book also covers international developments, especially the creation of the World Trade Organisation and the introduction of various agreements, on agriculture, on sanitary and phytosanitary measures and on technical barriers to trade. These agreements, and disputes arising under them, have had and will continue to have a significant impact on the transformation of the Common Agricultural Policy and are analysed in this work. The book also contains a fully up to date discussion of the increasing role of the Member States in the development of a European model of agriculture, the transformation of which remains incomplete, and it is thus unclear how the policy will develop in years to come. This work derives from a section in the looseleaf Law of the EU (Vaughan & Robertson, eds), and is made available here in a revised and expanded form.
About Joseph A. McMahon
Joseph McMahon joined the School of Law as Professor of Commercial Law in October 2004, having previously been a member of staff at Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand, the University of Leicester and the Queen’s University of Belfast. His research interests lie in the area of international trade law and European Community law with particular emphasis on agriculture and food safety. Since the publication of his doctoral thesis European Trade Policy in Agricultural Products he has continued to publish in the area of agricultural policy. His most recent book in this area was published by OUP in 2006 – The WTO Agreement on Agriculture. He has contributed to edited collections on the European Union, and on international trade issues, and has contributed articles on agriculture to leading European and International law journals.
