Agri-Food Law and Comparative Tools in Global Market

Abstract

Agri-Food Law is increasingly characterised by a peculiar way of rule-making, where multilevel sources of law overlap and interact, and where private and public responsibilities are brought to unity through vertical and horizontal cooperation. Globalisation of production and trade of agriculture and food products opened the way to Globalisation of rules, where European, International, National and Regional level play roles which cannot be reduced into the traditional hierarchical framework. In this perspective European Agri-Food Law, by its nature, must now be appreciated as European and Global Law, in the true comparative sense of communication and contamination among legal systems, leading to the conclusion that within the present dimension many global sources of law concur to build new models of European Governance in this sensitive area of experience.