MONICA COCCONI – The balance between science and policy in the public decision-making process: the EFSA case (European Food Safety Authority)

The paper highlights the role assumed by some fundamental principles of European law, specifically those of precaution and transparency, in redefining the perimeter of technology and politics in the public decision-making process.
The context is that of the disappearance of the logic of full scientific rationality at the basis of some public choices in a sector, such as that of food safety, in which the existence of a possible risk on their extent, leads to political determinations driven more by prudence than solely from scientific evidence.

  MONICA COCCONI - The balance between science and policy in the public decision-making process: the EFSA case (European Food Safety Authority)