Op-Ed: “Science to the People? The Reach of Transparency into EU Agency Science” by Marta Morvillo

This Op-Ed is part of a Symposium on EU Agencies. See also the Op-Ed by Merijn Chamon, by Marta Simoncini, by Graham Butler, by Miroslava Scholten, by Jonathan Bauerschmidt and Diane Fromage, by Ruben Della Pia and Mariolina Eliantonio, by Annalisa Volpato by Tomáš Buchta , by Marko Milenković and by Oana Stefan. More Op-Eds will follow shortly on EU Law Live.

The past years have seen momentous developments in terms of transparency of EU agency science. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has undergone a far-reaching reform, following two landmark judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Tweedale and Hautala) and wide public contestation over the authorisation of the pesticide glyphosate (see here and here)