I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
As the Commission’s legislative machine gets into overdrive, there will be more and more public consultations to help mould legislative proposals. I’ve made prepared many over my long time in Brussels. It is nice to see your ideas and suggestions being reflected in the final Commission proposal. That’s is a nice feeling when you know … Read more
I support both the precautionary principle and better regulation. It’s not a popular sentiment to hold on the issues I work on. In praise of the Precautionary Principle Personally, I’ve considered taking a cautionary approach sensible. It is good for public policy and for life. That mindset saved my life. Having some hard to see … Read more
If you are serious about understanding chemical regulation, you’ll read Cass Sunstein’s ‘Risk and Reason: Safety, Environment and the Law’ (link). For reasons unclear to me, Cass Sunstein is not known by many risk regulators in Europe. That is a shame. They’d learn a lot from reading him. He is more informative than a tweet. … Read more
The Commission runs a lot of public consultations. You can follow them here. Running public consultations make sense. Officials can get access to evidence that they may have missed. I’ve always liked the process. It is a means to address the Hayekian problem of knowledge. Officials can source information from hundreds of milllions of European … Read more