Implementating the EU's 2008 wine reform: Differentiated institutionalisation compared

Xabier Itçaina (1) , Antoine Roger (1) , Andy Smith (1, 2)

1 CED - Centre Émile Durkheim
2 Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques [FNSP]

In 2008, the Council of the European Union (EU) adopted a regulation (479/2008) which claimed to radically reform its Common Market Organization (CMO) for wine and thereby the regulation of this industry in Europe . To borrow Peter Hall's well known typology of 'social learning' (1993), this legislation did indeed appear to herald a 'third order change' because it incorporated not only a recalibration of policy instruments (1st order) and their partial replacement (2nd order), but also change in both the European wine industry's hierarchy of objectives, as well as the values around which they have been justified...

Mots clés: wine; European Union; reform; common market

Mots clés: Union européenne; vin; réforme; marché commun

Domaines: Science politique

Xabier Itçaina, Antoine Roger, Andy Smith. Implementating the EU's 2008 wine reform: Differentiated institutionalisation compared. 6th ECPR General Conference, Aug 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland. ⟨halshs-00631386⟩