Brexit, executive power and the internal market: the case of food standards
Friday 11 December, 10:00 – 11:00
This event is free but please register at Eventbrite.
In exiting the EU, the UK Government has introduced a large volume of new legislation which incorporates extensive use of executive powers. In this context, relevant legislation for food standards and food safety, notably statutory instruments and the Internal Market Bill, re-shape both how UK regulatory processes take place, but also where they take place. In this seminar, we first consider the pre-Brexit baseline for food safety law. We then examine changes to food safety and standards regulation and potential implications for the UK’s internal market. This focus on the scope and location of new powers for food safety regulation provides insight into how EU Exit is effecting deep reform in a key policy area and changing the extent of executive powers in all four UK nations.
Bios:
Chloe Anthony is an ESRC-funded doctoral researcher in environmental law at University of Sussex Law School. Her research focuses on collaborative land management at landscape scale in the UK and asks whether such land management is constrained or facilitated by UK environmental governance frameworks, both existing and proposed. She is particularly interested in the perspectives of those directly involved in land management as well as multi-level governance. Chloe has previously worked as a tutor for sustainable land management.
Emily Lydgate is a Senior Lecturer in Law at University of Sussex with a specialism in international trade law. She holds a PhD from King's College London, where she received the International Graduate Scholarship, an MSc (with distinction) from Oxford University, and is Deputy Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory. She has consulted at UN Environment's Economics and Trade Branch, where she acted as a WTO liaison, and was the programme officer for the Clean Trade Project. Emily has advised business and government on the implications of the UK leaving the EU and is an instructor on the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Diplomatic Academy. Her research and commentary have been featured in a wide variety of media outlets.