Hardly law or hard law? Investigating the dimensions of functionality and legalisation of codes of conduct in recent EU legislation and the normative repercussions thereof Ghent University
In the wake of the “new governance” movement, the EU has increasingly relied on soft law instruments that include non-political stakeholders into the policy process. Codes of conduct are such instruments. They have traditionally been used in EU law in a wide but inconsistent variety of ways. However, recent high-profile information and communication technology legislative instruments such as the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, the General ...