The Brussels Effect in Action: Do the EU’s Standards Travel Abroad? A Study on Control Systems for Geographical Indications in the EU and Thailand

Preusse, Verena; Purnhagen, Kai P.; Dries, Liesbeth

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“…Bradford (2020) asserts that for the 'Brussels Effect' to occur, five conditions need to be cumulatively met. However, follow-up research has found that in practice it can occur in the absence of some criteria being fulfilled (Preusse et al, 2020). Bradford's five conditions for the 'Brussels Effect' are: sufficient market size, regulatory capacity, stringent standards, inelastic targets, and non-divisibility.…”

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Transnational Digital Governance and Its Impact on Artificial Intelligence

Dempsey

McBride

Haataja³

et al. 2022

The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance

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The rapid pace of technological advancement and innovation has put existing governance and regulatory mechanisms to the test. There is a clear need for new and innovative regulatory mechanisms that enable governments to successfully manage the integration of digital technologies into our societies, and to ensure that such integration occurs in a sustainable, beneficial, and just manner. Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands out as one of the most debated of such innovations. What exactly is it, how should it be built and deployed, how can it be used, and how should it be regulated? Yet across the period of this debate, AI is becoming widely used and addressed within existing, evolving, and bespoke regulatory contexts. The present chapter explores the extant governance of AI and, in particular, what is arguably the most successful AI regulatory approach to date, that of the European Union. The chapter explores core definitional concepts, shared understandings, values, and approaches currently in play. It argues that not only are the Union’s regulations locally effective, but, due to the so-called “Brussels effect,” regulatory initiatives within the European Union also have a much broader global impact. As such, they warrant close consideration.

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Section: Eu Regulatory Processmentioning

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Transnational Digital Governance and Its Impact on Artificial Intelligence

Dempsey

McBride

Haataja³

et al. 2022

The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance

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“…In order for the 'Brussels Effect' to take hold it must be underpinned by 5 elements that other jurisdictions do not have to the extent that the EU does (Bradford 2020). While Bradford implies that for the 'Brussels Effect' to occur these conditions need to be cumulatively met, follow-up research has found that in practice the effect occurs with only some of the criteria being fulfilled (Preusse et al, 2020). Bradford's five conditions for the 'Brussels Effect' are: market size, regulatory capacity, stringent standards, inelastic targets, and non-divisibility.…”

Section: Eu Regulatory Processmentioning

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Transnational digital governance and its impact on artificial intelligence

Dempsey¹,

McBride²,

Bryson³

2021

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The rapid pace of technological advancement and innovation has put governance and regulatory mechanisms to the test. There is a clear need for new and innovative regulatory mechanisms that enable governments to successfully manage the integration of such technologies into our societies and ensure that such integration occurs in a sustainable, beneficial, and just manner. Artificial Intelligence stands out as one of the most debated such innovations. What exactly is it, how should it be built, how can it be used, and how and should it be regulated? Yet, in this debate, AI is becoming widely utilized within both existing, evolving, and bespoke regulatory contexts. The present chapter explores in particular what is arguably the most successful AI regulatory approach to date, that of the European Union. We explore core definitional concepts, shared understandings, values, and approaches currently in play. We argue that due to the so-called ‘Brussels effect’, regulatory initiatives within the European Union have a much broader global impact and, therefore, warrant close inspection.

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“…Despite the anticipation of such effects, the EU has long been interested in the gradual export of its sanitary and phytosanitary standards, including animal welfare standards. It is widely recognized that animal welfare is a domain in which a strong Brussels effect has been generated (Preusse et al, 2020), although it has not been subject to systematic empirical analysis. The "Brussels effect" connotes a de facto pressure toward high standards by which businesses employ the same (high) standards also in jurisdictions outside of those standards formally applied (Bradford, 2021).…”

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Farm to fork strategy: Animal welfare, EU trade policy, and public participation

Molitorisová

Burke

2022

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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This article presents an analysis of the Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F Strategy) on animal welfare matters though the lens of EU trade policy and public participation. It shows that the mix of cooperation tools contained in bilateral agreements with trade components support in aggregate the Strategy's actions on animal welfare. However, individual bilateral agreements may need to be renegotiated and modernised to include more powerful cooperation tools to achieve sustainable food systems through the adoption and implementation of animal welfare standards. One way of achieving this is to negotiate the inclusion of sustainable food systems chapters that highlight the linkages between animal welfare, agriculture, sustainability, climate, environment, and public health. However, such robust chapters should be monitored and enforced in a correspondingly robust manner, for example, by restructuring chapters' committees and work groups. The article concludes that enhanced public participation, both at the level of legislative proposals (public consultations) and at the level of trade policy (domestic advisory groups, standardisation committees), may better support achieving policy Ciar an Burke, Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, Friedich Schiller University and Legal Officer, EFTA Surveillance Authority. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone, and do not represent the position of the EFTA Surveillance Authority.

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The Brussels Effect in Action: Do the EU’s Standards Travel Abroad? A Study on Control Systems for Geographical Indications in the EU and Thailand

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Transnational Digital Governance and Its Impact on Artificial Intelligence

Transnational Digital Governance and Its Impact on Artificial Intelligence

Transnational digital governance and its impact on artificial intelligence

Farm to fork strategy: Animal welfare, EU trade policy, and public participation

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