文档介绍：POSSIBILITIES AND CONSTRAINTS IN THE USE OF SELF-REGULATION AND CO-REGULATION IN LEGISLATIVE POLICY: Experiences in herlands - Lessons to Be Learned for the EU?
Philip Eijlander Philip Eijlander is Professor of Legislative Studies and Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law of Tilburg University.
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Abstract
parison between the use of self-regulation and co-regulation at the national level and that at the European level is not easy because of the different functions national legislation and European legislation have. On a national scale, the main function of legislation is to achieve uniformity and equality under the law. General rules have a different function in the European Union. The European Union exists thanks to its diversity. The issue of the quality of legislation in the European Union is not a problem of uniformity, but of handling diversity in a well-considered, legal way. In this article, the concepts of self-regulation and co-regulation are analysed, both at the national level (