Food safety - a constitutive element of sectoral community policy

• Author: L. Manea/Ghe. Epuran
• Position: Marketing, Tourism and International Relations Department, Transilvania University of Brasov
• Pages: 209-218

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 8 (57) No. 2 - 2015

FOOD SAFETY - A CONSTITUTIVE

ELEMENT OF SECTORAL

COMMUNITY POLICY

L. MANEA1 GHE. EPURAN1

Abstract: Retrieving its legal basis in article 43, article 114, article 168

paragraph 4 and article 169 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the

European Union, food safety constitutes together with the consumer

protection and public health policy, key areas of the sectoral policy

regarding consumer protection and public health, as in terms of food

safety, the two EU sectoral policy objectives are established and pursued:

protecting human health and the consumer interests and promoting a

smooth functioning of a competitive, single food market. Supporting and

encouraging organic sales, the European Union follows the

implementation and compliance throughout the production process of the

regulations on food hygiene, animal and plant health, to the ones

concerning food labelling.

Key words: food safety, consumer, labeling, food additives, food products.

1 Marketing, Tourism and International Relations Department, Transilvania University of Braşov.

1. Introduction

Since the establishment of the European

Community, for the successful functioning

of the single market, certain economic

policies of common interest were

established, such as the common

agricultural policy and the competition

policy, while in other sectors, such as the

environmental policy or the cohesion

policy, the European Community's role has

developed over time, against the growing

need to establish fair competition

conditions and common rules for all

market sectors, as well as rules for

government intervention.

In supporting the development of the

single market in recent decades, the

European Union has developed policies in

the most diverse areas, adopting the rules

with a different degree of harmonization,

from genuine common policies, which

assumed general targets to simple

collaborations.

Equally, approaches within the initial

sectoral policies were developed by

initiating sector reforms and establishing

new targets of congruence regarding the

sustainable development, changing

fundamental principles and introducing

new financing instruments and protection

systems so that each sector policy

developed more competition domains.

In turn, it was intended to develop these

areas for the purposes of sectoral policy

stability, but also by harmonizing the

measures adopted in each area in line with

the objectives of the other sectoral policies.