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Maria Eduarda Gonçalves
Regulating New Risks: Emergency Contexts, Institutional Reform and the Difficulties of Europeanisation – Case Studies from Portugal
| European Journal of Risk Regulation 4/2011: pp. 540-552 |
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The expression “risk regulation” conveys the idea of normalisation of the way in which the
State deals with the problems raised by risk, through rules, institutions and procedures set
up to either prevent risk or manage it once it materialises. It must be conceded, however,
that there is a tension between risk regulation (understood as a means of bringing risk under
control) and the fact that the emergence of new risks has persistently caused turmoil.
For this reason, risk is proving to be a serious test of the State’s ability to pursue the public
interest when dealing with issues which are characteristically complex, both technically and
socially.
The European Union has responded to the BSE and GMO crises by developing a truly European
risk regulation system which has been a major driver of legal and institutional reform.
Implementation has been far from homogeneous across the Member States, however, my
premise being that the objective of normalisation has met perhaps unexpected obstacles in
Southern European countries like Portugal, raising the question of the kind of local conditions
which may either favour or hinder Europeanisation processes. This paper discusses
the topic based on the analysis of three case studies illustrating the way the Portuguese
state has tackled environmental and public health risks, and the impact of EU law and
policy on the whole question. |
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