Regulating sustainability by combining legality verification and market access: critical reflections on the EUs FLEGT scheme as smart-mix multi-level regulation for the timber sector

TY - CHAP

T1 - Regulating sustainability by combining legality verification and market access

T2 - critical reflections on the EUs FLEGT scheme as smart-mix multi-level regulation for the timber sector

AU - Buhmann, Karin

AU - Nathan, Iben

PY - 2019/1/1

Y1 - 2019/1/1

N2 - The EU draws on smart-mix regulation when using market access as a lever for implementation of sustainability-related policy objectives related to forest law and governance in timber-exporting countries. Market access in combination with legality verification may be a powerful driver for reforms of law and governance, even pending granting of favourable market access. These are important outcomes; yet the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade scheme grants EU policy makers and regulators extraterritorial powers to influence law and governance affecting individuals, firms and public institutions that have no direct democratic influence on the framing conditions. This chapter maps these issues through the theory lens of multi-level regulation, testing and expanding the theory beyond the EU and providing recommendations for EU policy makers and regulators.

AB - The EU draws on smart-mix regulation when using market access as a lever for implementation of sustainability-related policy objectives related to forest law and governance in timber-exporting countries. Market access in combination with legality verification may be a powerful driver for reforms of law and governance, even pending granting of favourable market access. These are important outcomes; yet the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade scheme grants EU policy makers and regulators extraterritorial powers to influence law and governance affecting individuals, firms and public institutions that have no direct democratic influence on the framing conditions. This chapter maps these issues through the theory lens of multi-level regulation, testing and expanding the theory beyond the EU and providing recommendations for EU policy makers and regulators.

U2 - 10.4337/9781788971041.00013

DO - 10.4337/9781788971041.00013

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781788971034

SP - 129

EP - 149

BT - Sustainable Trade, Investment and Finance

A2 - Gammage, Clair

A2 - Novitz, Tonia

PB - Edward Elgar Publishing

ER -