Marjolein B. A. van Asselt is Professor of Risk Governance, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University, and member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), The Hague. Esther Versluis is Associate Professor European Regulatory Governance at the Department of Political Science, Maastricht University.Ellen Vos is Professor of European Union Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University and co-director of the Maastricht Centre for European Law of Maastricht University.

• Introduction Part 1: The European Union in Context 1. Regulating Food Trade in the Enlarged European Union 2. EU Risk Governance of ‘Cloned Food’: Regulatory Uncertainty between Trade and Non-Trade 3. Risky Politics: A Socialogical Analysis of the WTO Panel on Biotechnological Products 4. Pre-Empting Precaution: GMO Trade Conflicts, Uncertainty Intolerant Risk Assessment and Precaution-Based Risk Management Part 2: Risk Regulation in the European Union 5. Between Politics and Science: Accommodating National Diversity in GMO Regulation 6. The Politics of Risk Decision-Making: The Voting Behaviour of the EU Member States on GMOs 7. Regulating the Use of Bisphenol A in Baby and Children’s Products in the European Union: Trade Implications and of an Uncertain Risk Part 3: Taking Stock of Policy Fashions 8. Agencies as Risk Managers? Exploring the Role of EU Agencies in Authorization Procedures 9. The Precautionary Principle in Court: An Analysis of Post-Pfizer Case Law 10. The Scientification of Participation 11. Synthesis

Marjolein B. A. van Asselt is Professor of Risk Governance, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University, and member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), The Hague. Esther Versluis is Associate Professor European Regulatory Governance at the Department of Political Science, Maastricht University.Ellen Vos is Professor of European Union Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University and co-director of the Maastricht Centre for European Law of Maastricht University.

• Introduction Part 1: The European Union in Context 1. Regulating Food Trade in the Enlarged European Union 2. EU Risk Governance of ‘Cloned Food’: Regulatory Uncertainty between Trade and Non-Trade 3. Risky Politics: A Socialogical Analysis of the WTO Panel on Biotechnological Products 4. Pre-Empting Precaution: GMO Trade Conflicts, Uncertainty Intolerant Risk Assessment and Precaution-Based Risk Management Part 2: Risk Regulation in the European Union 5. Between Politics and Science: Accommodating National Diversity in GMO Regulation 6. The Politics of Risk Decision-Making: The Voting Behaviour of the EU Member States on GMOs 7. Regulating the Use of Bisphenol A in Baby and Children’s Products in the European Union: Trade Implications and of an Uncertain Risk Part 3: Taking Stock of Policy Fashions 8. Agencies as Risk Managers? Exploring the Role of EU Agencies in Authorization Procedures 9. The Precautionary Principle in Court: An Analysis of Post-Pfizer Case Law 10. The Scientification of Participation 11. Synthesis