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A Responsive Technocracy?

EU politicisation and the consumer
policies of the European
Commission

Christian Rauh

Christian Rauh 2016

First published by the ECPR Press in 2016

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Table of Contents

Abbreviations

ANEC	Association Europenne pour la Coordination de la Reprsentation des Consommateurs dans la Normalisation (European Association for the Coordination of Consumer Representation in Standardisation)
BEUC	Bureau Europen des Unions de Consommateurs (European Consumers Organisation)
BSE	Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease)
CE	Conformit Europenne (European Conformity)
CEN	Comit Europen de Normalisation (European Committee for Standardisation)
CENELEC	Comit Europen de Normalisation lectrotechnique (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation)
CIAA	Confdration des Industries Agro-Alimentaires de lUE (Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the EU, today: FoodDrinkEurope)
DG	Directorate-General (of the European Commission)
DG AGRI	Directorate-General Agriculture and Rural Development
DG ENTR	Directorate-General Enterprise and Industry
DG INFSO	Directorate-General Information Society and Media
DG JLS	Directorate-General Justice, Liberty, and Security
DG MARKT	Directorate-General Internal Market and Services
DG SANCO	Directorate-General Health and Consumer Protection
DG TREN	Directorate-General Transport and Energy
EB	Eurobarometer
EC	European Community
ECJ	European Court of Justice
ECTAA	European Travel Agents and Tour Operators Associations
EEC	European Economic Community
EP	European Parliament
EPTO	European Passenger Transport Operators
EU	European Union
EURO COOP	European Community of Consumer Cooperatives
EuroCommerce	Association of Commerce of the European Union
FAZ	Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
GPSD	General product safety directive
ISC	Inter-service consultation
MEP	Member of the European Parliament
MS	Member state
NGO	Non-governmental organisation
QMV	Qualified majority voting
RAPEX	Rapid exchange of information system for dangerous non-food products
SEA	Single European Act
TEC	Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
TEU	Treaty on European Union
TFEU	Treaty on the functioning of the European Union

List of Figures and Tables

Figures

Figure 2.1: Public visibility of European integration

Figure 2.2: Polarisation in public opinion on European integration

Figure 2.3: Public mobilisation on European issues

Figure 2.4: A composite index for the public politicisation of European integration

Figure 3.1: Theoretical model

Figure 3.2: The Commissions consumer policy choice variable allocating rights between producers and consumers

Figure 3.3: Inter-DG conflict and issue salience under varying levels of EU politicisation

Figure 3.4: Consumer interventionism and political feasibility in a stylised seven-member Council

Figure 4.1: Public salience of the issue area economic and contractual consumer rights

Figure 5.1: Public salience of the issue area product safety

Figure 6.1: Public salience of the issue area food safety

Figure A1: Politicisation index and fitted values (model 3)

Tables

Table 3.1: Ideal-type consumer policy models

Table 3.2: Summary of hypotheses and observable implications

Table 3.3: Sample of legislative drafting processes in consumer policy (19992008)

Table 7.1: Summary of the main case study results

Table A1: Regression models of the composite politicisation index

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