Which Paradigm Represent the Risk Management Administrative Procedures in EC Law?
Two Examples. López-Jurado F.B.*; University of Navarra fljurado@unav.es Abstract: A fundamental part of the statutory response to the uncertainties accompanying scientific and technological advance is the stablishment of administrative procedures, considered as structured processes of information procurement and processing carried out under the responsibility of administrative authorities that enables the Government to take rational and legal action. This paper compare the risk related procedural clauses of EC Regulations concerning food safety and the authorisation and control of medicines, in order to distill the peculiar amalgamation of understandings about law, public administration and technological risk represented by those Regulations. In order to attain this purpose I rely on the two paradigms of administrative constitutionalism in the risk regulation context, described by E. Fisher (Risk Regulation and Adminstrative Constitutionalism, Oxford Hart Publishing 2007, at 26-35): t
