Regulatory co-ordination in the EU: a cross-sector comparison

Heims, Eva M. (2017) Regulatory co-ordination in the EU: a cross-sector comparison. Journal of European Public Policy, 24 (8). pp. 1116-1134. ISSN 1350-1763

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Abstract

The paper examines what drives national regulators’ attitudes towards and engagement with EU regulatory co-ordination as facilitated by EU agencies and offices. It suggests that a bureaucratic politics perspective can counteract shortcomings of explanations conventionally advanced in the EU governance literature by showing that national regulators’ attitudes towards co-ordination are driven by the aim to protect their turf. This is empirically demonstrated by a comparison of attitudes to co-ordination across maritime safety and food control authorities in the UK and Germany that draws on original document analysis and semi-structured interviews with British, German and EU officials. UK and German food control authorities have a positive attitude towards EU co-ordination, but the maritime safety authorities contest it. While the food control authorities use EU co-ordination to enhance their bureaucratic turf vis-à-vis lower-level authorities, the maritime safety authorities perceive EU coordination to threaten their established position in the International Maritime Organization.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjpp20
Additional Information:	© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Divisions:	Government
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Date Deposited:	08 Aug 2016 09:20
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2024 05:21
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67375

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