The Economics of Regulation in Agriculture: Compliance with Public and Private Standards
本书通过定性和定量研究，分析公共与私人标准对农业生产、市场和贸易的影响，特别关注欧盟共同农业政策合规成本及全球竞争力变化，适合研究农业政策与国际贸易的学者。
This book presents a collection of qualitative and quantitative studies on the production, market and trade impacts of public and private standards in agriculture. In developed countries, numerous regulations have been designed and progressively implemented to protect public health, water and air quality or animal welfare for the last three decades. In the European Union (EU), the enforcement of these regulations was reckoned to be rather weak and heterogeneous across member states. In 2003 (EU Council Regulation 1782/2003), European authorities decided to condition every payment of the common agricultural policy (CAP) to the respect of these regulations. How much additional costs European farms are expected to bear to comply with these standards and how much European competitiveness on world markets is expected to decline? This question is the starting point of the research that led to this book. However, the contributors come from all parts of the world except Asia, and the issue has been broadened to the regulations in non-EU countries and to the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) into non-tariff barrier disputes.