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Cantero Gamito, Marta --- "The role of the EU in the transnational governance of standards, contracts and codes" [2020] ELECD 361; in Cantero Gamito, Marta; Micklitz, -W. Hans (eds), "The Role of the EU in Transnational Legal Ordering" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) 2

Book Title: The Role of the EU in Transnational Legal Ordering

Editor(s): Cantero Gamito, Marta; Micklitz, -W. Hans

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: The role of the EU in the transnational governance of standards, contracts and codes

Author(s): Cantero Gamito, Marta

Number of pages: 24

Abstract/Description:

Increasing attention is being paid to the reach of EU rules, policies and regulatory standards beyond the EU marketplace. This edited volume provides a critical account of the wider role of the EU in an increasingly bewildering geopolitical scene, where the transnational and globalised political economy coexists with the current attempted return to the nation-State. We have identified at least four different, but overlapping, ways in which the EU uses private transnational governance practices with a view to expanding the regulatory space of EU rules, policies and values: (1) ‘EU governance through EU institutions’; (2) (EU) governance through epistemic communities; (3) ‘EU governance through substance’; and (4) ‘EU governance through privately set procedures’. With contributions from different sectors, the book reveals how private law tools such as privately developed standards, contracts and codes can be used to achieve public aims where public law struggles to overcome the territorial as well as authority and legitimacy limits of publicmade law.