Is the EU really more precautionary than the US? Some thoughts in relation to TTIP negotiations

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Marco Bocchi is an Italian Lawyer, Ph.D. Candidate in International Law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) and Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany). His research focuses on various issues related to human rights law, particularly on human rights’ implementation in national legal orders, comparative analysis of international human rights protection in different regional systems, and the intersection between human rights, general principles of international law and environmental law.

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Is the EU really more precautionary than the US? Some thoughts in relation to TTIP negotiations

August 9, 2016

Marco Bocchi

On January 26, 2016, during a public meeting organized by the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, the European Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmström, said that the precautionary principle (PP), the principle which enables rapid response in the face of a possible danger to human, animal or plant health, or to protect the environment, is a fundamental rule in the…