Food safety could lead to conflicts within EU

The first conflicts between accession countries and the European Union after enlargement next May will be over food safety.

Food lawyer Raymond O’Rourke predicted the clashes in a presentation to the Irish Society for European Law in Dublin last night. He claimed the EU food regulatory regime is badly prepared for the accession of ten new member states next May.

It was not because these countries have failed to transpose all mandatory EU food laws into their own national law, but because the EU has neglected to deal with the fall-out of the British-French beef war case last year.