This book addresses the regulatory capacity of the EU as it responds to the huge challenge of
realizing the single market. It explores its weaknesses the EU regulatory networks expert
committees and EU agencies formed in response and the exceptionally large and complex
transnational regulatory system which has resulted. It defines the EU regulatory space as a
multi-faceted phenomenon of institutional expansion whose shape varies across sectors and
changes over time. Empirically based on the exploration of how regulatory delegation has
emerged and evolved in three key EU policies (food safety electricity and telecommunications)
the book disentangles and links together the functional institutional and power-distributional
factors and their interplay over time into a unified explanation of the many faces of the EU
regulatory space.
