Cartea "The Codex Alimentarius Commission and Its Standards"

The Codex Alimentarius Commission and Its Standards   Inchide

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was established in 1962 by the FAO and the WHO as a subsidiary organ of both organisations, and has been charged with the creation of the Codex Alimentarius: a collection of uniformly defined food standards. Its capacity to give effect to its mandate depends upon its institutional framework. The authority of the Codex Alimentarius Commission is restricted by its position as a subsidiary body of the FAO and the WHO. However, with regard to its normative powers, the Codex Alimentarius Commission operates independently from its parent organisations. This examination of its legal aspects and standards, both within the framework of the WTO Agreements as well as within the context of the EC legal order, will be useful to scholars of international law and the law of international organisations such as the WTO, and to those with an interest of food safety in general.



• Includes a chapter on the institutional aspects of the Commission, thus allowing the reader to understand the major legal aspects of the institutional framework of the Codex Alimentarius Commission • Includes a chapter on the characteristics of its standards as harmonisation instruments, giving the reader an overview of their main features as harmonisation instruments • Covers the status of Codex standards within the WTO Agreements, allowing the reader to understand the harmonisation provisions in the WTO Agreements and the role of Codex standards.



Contents



Introduction; 1. The Codex Alimentarius Commission: the institutional framework; 2. The Codex Alimentarius: Harmonisation through standard-setting; 3. The Codex and the EC; 4. The WTO Agreements and the Codex Alimentarius; 5. The legitimacy of the Codex Alimentarius, the standard-setting procedure and the institutional framework; Conclusion.

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