La regolazione privata nel sistema costituzionale dell'UE. Riflessioni sulla disciplina relativa al settore dell'innovazione tecnologica

While it must be noted that phenomenon of private regulation as such has certainly gained much interest in constitutional scholarship, only scarce attention has so far been given to the exploration of private regulation within the particular context of the EU’s constitutional set-up. In this essay an attempt has been made to overcome some of this scarcity in the scholarly literature by approaching the phenomenon of private regulatory authority at EU level from the particular angle of EU constitutional law. Special emphasis has, however, been put on the consideration of private regulation on the field of emerging technologies, in particular “legislation-induced co-regulation”, in the light of the principle of conferral.