96116 - DIRITTO AGRO-ALIMENTARE E AGRO-AMBIENTALE

Course contents

- The origin and evolution of agricultural law. Its actual content and legal sources.

- The farm (/agricultural) business: general agricultural activities (breeding of living plant and animal, fishing, related activities); subjective status; instruments (land, accessory parts and enterprise); enterprise's legal statute.

- Domestic, European and international legislations; particularly, intervention measures within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

- Quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs: Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) and organic production.

- Food products between domestic law, EU law and multilateral international Agreements.

- Food law principles.

- Agricultural and food products' markets.

- Food products’ production and marketing rules; hygiene standards.

Readings/Bibliography

Luigi COSTATO - Luigi RUSSO, Corso di diritto agrario italiano e dell'Unione europea, 5^ ediz., Giuffrè, Milano, 2019:

- Ch. 1

- Ch. 3

- Ch. 9, except for paragraph 9.17

and

Luigi COSTATO, Paolo BORGHI, Sebastiano RIZZIOLI, Valeria PAGANIZZA, Laura SALVI, Compendio di diritto alimentare, 9^ ediz., Milano : Wolters Kluwer, CEDAM scienze giuridiche, 2019:

- Ch. 1

- Ch. 2

- Ch. 3

- Ch. 4

- Ch. 6

Students attending classes can prepare the final examination on lecture notes, following guidelines provided during the lessons.

Teaching methods

Generally lectures are based on the relevant normative provisions and, possibly, on scholarly literature and Court's case-law.

Assessment methods

Final examination is oral (approximately 30-45 minutes) and generally consists in 3 questions/topics on course contents, taking into consideration the knowledge of the course topics, as well as the study method and the proper use of the legal vocabulary; the student must reply correctly to 2 out of 3 questions at least to pass the exam.

Final examination is based on textbook's contents and, for students attending classes, on lectures' content; anyway, accordingly with personal interests on specific topics, programmes partially different from the official one can be agreed.

Teaching tools

Computer (Internet access), projector, blackboard.

Lectures are generally conducted by projecting the text of legal sources related to the topics analysed.

Office hours

See the website of Giulio Sgarbanti