In democratic knowledge-based societies the reference to scientific evidence as a source for objectivity and certainty has become a major tool to make law and policy more reliable and legitimate. However, as unforeseen risk in connection with science-based policies (especially in the health and food sector) can hardly be reduced and controlled, new legal concepts to deal with uncertainty in science policy have been shaped in different legal systems. The construction of a safe market both through certification bodies and the right to information for responsible citizens framed by Regulations 765/2008 and 1169/2011 belong to this theoretical framework. After having presented the main characters of the US and EU science policy, the paper argues in favor of a radical approach to uncertainty as a normal condition. This approach encompasses democratizing policy-making processes by assembling all relevant knowledge from citizens, and a two-ways communications between experts and nonexperts. In order to rebuild citizens’ trust towards scientific and political institutions, and to establish sound forms of responsibility towards unexpected impacts of innovation, new interactions between science and society should take place

Il carattere probabilistico delle leggi scientifiche e la più generale incertezza che sempre circonda l’implementazione sociale delle nuove tecnologie è stata all’origine di prospettive di policy diverse nei contesti normativi statunitense ed europeo. In ambito europeo, pur nella coesistenza di molteplici modelli di science policy, le riflessioni sull’incertezza sono state all’origine, anche nel settore della sicurezza alimentare, di nuovi strumenti giuridici che collegano l’allocazione delle conoscenze rilevanti a forme differenziate di responsabilità rispetto alle conoscenze medesime o alle loro conseguenze. In tali nuove forme di responsabilità si mescolano approcci innovativi1 e soluzioni che ripropongono in nuova veste il modello della certezza e dell’oggettività della scienza e dei suoi esperti. “Prendere sul serio” la società della conoscenza e il ruolo dei cittadini europei significa approfondire prospettive di ricerca epistemica, di valorizzazione di tutta la conoscenza rilevante e di riforma democratica 3 per ora più evocate che praticate dalle istituzioni comunitarie.

Tallacchini, M., Sicurezze e responsabilità in tempo di crisi, <<RIVISTA DI DIRITTO ALIMENTARE>>, 2012; VI (1): 14-22 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/21581]

Sicurezze e responsabilità in tempo di crisi

Tallacchini, Mariachiara
2012

Abstract

In democratic knowledge-based societies the reference to scientific evidence as a source for objectivity and certainty has become a major tool to make law and policy more reliable and legitimate. However, as unforeseen risk in connection with science-based policies (especially in the health and food sector) can hardly be reduced and controlled, new legal concepts to deal with uncertainty in science policy have been shaped in different legal systems. The construction of a safe market both through certification bodies and the right to information for responsible citizens framed by Regulations 765/2008 and 1169/2011 belong to this theoretical framework. After having presented the main characters of the US and EU science policy, the paper argues in favor of a radical approach to uncertainty as a normal condition. This approach encompasses democratizing policy-making processes by assembling all relevant knowledge from citizens, and a two-ways communications between experts and nonexperts. In order to rebuild citizens’ trust towards scientific and political institutions, and to establish sound forms of responsibility towards unexpected impacts of innovation, new interactions between science and society should take place
2012
Italiano
Tallacchini, M., Sicurezze e responsabilità in tempo di crisi, <<RIVISTA DI DIRITTO ALIMENTARE>>, 2012; VI (1): 14-22 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/21581]
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