| dc.description.abstract | Globalisation and technological innovation have been fuelling the need for increasing levels of trust in private actors, such as companies or special interest groups, to regulate and enforce significant aspects of people's daily lives: from environmental and social protection to the areas of food safety, advertising and financial markets. This book investigates the trust vested in private actors from the perspective of European citizens. It answers the question of whether private actors live up to citizens' expectations or whether more should be done as to the safeguarding of citizens' interests. Several cross-cutting studies explore how private regulation and enforcement are embedded in EU law. The book offers an innovative approach to private regulation and enforcement by focusing on the specific EU context which, unlike the national and transnational ones, has not yet been widely explored. This context merits a stand-alone analysis because of the unique normative framework of the EU, as a particular polity itself but also in relation to its Member States. With an overall analysis of the main aspects of private regulation and enforcement across different policy fields of the EU, the book adds a missing tile to the mosaic of public–private governance studies. | en |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | -- Introduction : EU private regulation and enforcement – mapping its contextual, conceptual, constitutional and citizens' dimensions, Madeleine de Cock Buning and Linda Senden
-- Part I Policy Domains
-- The special position of agreements by social partners in EU law, Frans Pennings
-- Private regulation in the internal market : assessing European technical standardisation through a citizen's eye, Mariëtte Hiemstra and Linda Senden
-- The role of private actors in data protection law and data protection practice, Peter Blok
-- Private actors in European consumer law, Ewoud Hondius and Esther van Schagen
-- Of the people, by the people, for the people? : the European Union's experience with private environmental regulation and enforcement, Suzanne Kingston and Edwin Alblas
-- Unfolding the private–public dynamics of regulation and enforcement in EU food law, Michele Simonato and Salvatore F. Nicolosi
-- Engaging private actors in the production of EU financial regulation : advantages and disadvantages from a citizen's perspective, Andrea Minto
-- Trust through responsibility : advertising and self-regulation in Europe, Oliver Gray
-- Private regulation and enforcement in the EU : finding the right balance from a citizen's perspective – the protection of minors against online harms, Madeleine de Cock Buning
-- Internet liability law case study : private regulation and enforcement in the EU from the citizens' perspective, Christopher T. Marsden
-- The role of private actors in the regulation and enforcement of corporate environmental harm, Judith van Erp
-- Part II Cross-Cutting Issues
-- The constitutional authority of private regulation in the light of the EU's competence order, Kilian Klinger
-- Private regulation and enforcement within the single market's legal framework : the need for a more holistic approach, Frederick Brouwer
-- European Union co- and self-regulation and the protection of fundamental rights, Jessy M. Emaus
-- EU competition law versus private regulation : restrictive or enabling?, Jotte Mulder
-- The democratic challenges of effective private regulation and enforcement, Colin Scott
-- Conclusions : drawing the lines together of regulatory choice, public–private dynamics and citizens' trust in private regulation and enforcement in the EU, Madeleine de Cock Buning and Linda Senden | en |
