This volume examines the operation of the European Union and its institutions, providing an authoritative study of the processes surrounding the formulation, negotiation, and implementation of EU policy. Drawing on research with EU leaders, parliamentarians, and national negotiators, this study offers a fascinating insight into the changing nature of the European integration project at the start of the new millennium.

• List of Figures and Abbreviations


• 1: The Modalities of European Union Governance


• 2: The Environmentalization of EU Public Policies: The Case of the Common Agricultural Policy


• 3: The Role of the European Commission in the Environmentalization of the CAP: Political Entrepreneurship and Institutional Agendas


• 4: The European Parliament: The Inter-Institutional Modalities of 'Agenda Territories'


• 5: The Modalities of Interest Representation at the EU level: COPA and the Agri-Environmental Regulation


• 6: National Modalities of Agri-Environmental Policy-Making in the United Kingdom


• 7: Concordance Systems, Multi-Level Governance, and the Negotiation of the Agri-Environmental Regulation in the EU's Council of Ministers


• 8: Theorizing Policy Implementation in a Multi-Level Governance System


• 9: Implementing the Agri-Environmental Regulation in Southern France and Central Spain


• 10: Conclusions


• Glossary, References, Index

Alan Jones has written widely on all aspects of European integration and agricultural policy-making. He has been a principal scientist on an EU research project investigating EU governance and agri-environmental policy, and is coordinating a project on innovation in European agriculture and policy-making. Has held visiting scientist posts at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Bonn, Warsaw.
Julian Clark has held a number of posts including research associate at the Institute of European Environmental Policy in London, Committee Specialist to the House of Commons Select Committ for Agriculture. Has written reports and papers on EU environmental policy and agriculture for Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management, UK Department of the Environment.