Shifting the boundaries or breaking the branches? On some problems arising with the regulation of technology

1. Les orangers du Lac Balaton. 2. Towards a transformation of the regulative function. 3. The escape in the general clause. 4. Towards an “eased” rule of law. 5. Technology, norms and standards. 6. Legal reference to private technical standards. 7. Norms, standards, and consensus: the role of private standardization bodies. 8. The most elegant solution. 9. Harmonization of technologies in the European Union. 10. Shifting the boundaries or breaking the branches? 11. Erosion of the public sphere or invasion of private autonomy? Towards an “heterotrophic” regulative model