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Wiebke, Franziska ; Buyken, Anette ; Martínez, Jose ; Purnhagen, Kai ; von Philipsborn, Peter:
Legislative food environment policy powers in the European Union : Who may act?
In: European Journal of Public Health.
Bd. 35
(2025)
Heft Suppl. 4
.
ISSN 1464-360X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf161.1854
Abstract
Background
Public health nutrition policy spans diverse areas. In the European Union (EU), legislative powers are distributed across multiple government levels - EU, national and sub-national. While the degree of decentralisation within Member States varies, the distribution of competences between the EU and Member States is uniform. We have developed a methodology to analyse legislative powers for food environment policies in multi-level governance systems and applied it to the EU.
Methods
Our approach is based on the INFORMAS-Food-EPI and entails three steps: (1) qualitative content analysis of EU treaties, directives, Member State legislation, academic literature and government publications; (2) key informant interviews with legal scholars (n = 5); and (3) consultations with stakeholders from public administration, civil society and academia (n = 17).
Results
We distinguish four types of legislative power: primary, shared, supporting and limited/no power. Both the EU and Member States have relevant powers to support a healthier food environment. The EU holds primary legislative power, for example, in the area of food composition and labelling, grounded in their internal market and consumer protection competence (Art. 4(2) TFEU). Here, Member States have supporting powers and may only act in the absence of EU harmonisation (Art. 2(2) TFEU). Taxation, by contrast, is primarily a national competence, with EU-level constraints - minimum VAT (15%), two reduced rates (≥5%) and a 0% rate for essential goods, incl. food (Art. 98-99 Council Directive 2006/112/EC). Certain domains, e.g., monitoring and surveillance, are a shared competence of EU and national governments.
Conclusions
Defining legislative powers can help to avoid diffusion of responsibilities in multi-level governance systems. Understanding the powers of the EU and Member States can facilitate coherent policy design by identifying untapped potential for public action to support a healthy food environment.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät > Fachgruppe Rechtswissenschaften Fakultäten > Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften: Lebensmittel, Ernährung und Gesundheit > Lehrstuhl Lebensmittelrecht > Lehrstuhl Lebensmittelrecht - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kai Purnhagen Profilfelder > Emerging Fields > Innovation und Verbraucherschutz Profilfelder > Emerging Fields > Lebensmittel- und Gesundheitswissenschaften Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungsstellen > Forschungsstelle für Deutsches und Europäisches Lebensmittelrecht |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 340 Recht |
| Eingestellt am: | 18 Nov 2025 09:48 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 18 Nov 2025 09:48 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/95274 |