20402436 - DIRITTO AGRARIO E ALIMENTARE EUROPEO

The course aims to provide students with basic knowledge of European Union institutions and deepen the legal aspects of the common agricultural policy, which constitutes a significant part of the Union's budget, either in theory or in practice, identifying profiles of major food regulation and the supply chain, also with reference to consumer rights.
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Programme

- Notions of European Union law: the Union's institutional system, sources of law, the relationship between EU law and national law, the Union's own resources;
- The Common Agricultural Policy; CAP 2023-2027 and the new CAP 2028-2032; national strategic plans; rural development plans (RDPs);
- Environmental protection and agricultural activities: the principal environmental instruments and their impact on EU agriculture, in particular those on pesticides and biocides, water protection, biodiversity and waste protection, and animal welfare;
- Consumer protection: food safety in the Union, organic and GMO products, food packaging, food additives;
- The common commercial policy: the import and export of agricultural products and foodstuffs under Union law;