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dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisorDieperink, Carel
dc.contributor.authorCabenda, K.I.
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-26T17:04:35Z
dc.date.available2014-08-26T17:04:35Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/17809
dc.description.abstractLivestock farmers, slaughterhouses and packaging actors within the Dutch meat sector often don’t comply with rules and regulations in place, among others, concerning animal welfare and/or animal or public health. Until now, practitioners have mainly focused on highlighting the cases of non-compliance by actors in the meat sector taking place under centralized governance, to appeal to these centralized governance actors to take on action and successfully conduct compliance control. In addition, practitioners have mainly focused on compliance control with regard to rules and regulations for regular meat production under centralized governance instead of also scrutinizing compliance control regarding “extra legal” rules and regulations and/or norms or standards for free-range and organic meat production under centralized governance and/or compliance control under self-governance. Therefore, the knowledge gap can be divided in two focus points. Firstly, this research aims to directly analyze what conditions are required for successful compliance control under centralized governance. Secondly, this study aims to explore what conditions lead to successful compliance control, by also taking into account compliance control under centralized governance concerning “extra-legal” rules and regulations and compliance control under self-governance for “extra-legal” norms and standards. Overall, the study answers the following overarching research question: What are the conditions of successful compliance control under centralized governance and self-governance in the Dutch meat sector? Ultimately, recommendations relevant for governance actors of compliance control, what conditions they should emphasize for compliance control under both centralized governance and self-governance to be successful, are formulated. Steps taken to answer this question, in this thesis firstly a theoretical part based on literature review ultimately resulting in a checklist of two overarching conditions of successful compliance control, namely efficiency and professionalism are included. Subsequently, efficiency is composed by the following conditions: - Empowerment and collaboration; - Coordination. Whereas, the condition of professionalism is built by: - Relational and epistemic independency; - Enforcement; - Transparency and clarity; - Expertise and skills. In the thesis each of these aforementioned conditions of efficiency and professionalism will be operationalized. In theory, compliance control under centralized governance seems to put an emphasis on relational and epistemic independency and enforcement, whereas under self-governance empowerment and collaboration and expertise and skills are highlighted. For these theoretical success conditions it is scrutinized to what extent they are comparable with practical implications for successful compliance control in the meat sector. In order to refine the theoretical conditions an embedded comparative case study has been conducted, for which the chicken meat sector is chosen as a representative and an interesting case for the meat sector. Two cases representing compliance control under centralized governance are studied; the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA ) controlling for compliance with regular rules and regulations and the EU Organic Symbol regarding compliance control for “extra-legal” rules and regulations. Also, two cases of compliance control under self-governance have been explored; IKB Kip as well as Beter Leven Kenmerk for compliance control with regard to “extra legal” norms and standards. Differences between the practical implications for compliance control under centralized governance and self-governance with regard to the theoretical conditions of successful compliance control are minimal. Overall, the cases representing compliance control under centralized governance in the chicken meat sector in practice focus more on the theoretical conditions of successful compliance control: relational and epistemic independency. On the other hand, the cases representing compliance control under self-governance in the chicken meat sector put a bigger emphasis on the conditions of empowerment and coordination, transparency and clarity and expertise and skills than the cases representing compliance control under centralized governance in the chicken meat sector. No differences are found between the cases representing compliance control under centralized governance and self-governance in the chicken meat sector in practice with respect to the theoretical conditions of coordination and enforcement for successful compliance control. Overall, all theoretical conditions are more emphasized in practice under “extra-legal” compliance control – especially under centralized governance – than under compliance control for regular rules and regulations. Principally, empowerment and collaboration and enforcement find more emphasis in practice under compliance control with respect to “extra-legal” rules and regulations and norms and standards. The overall conclusion is that in practice differences are small between the conditions of compliance control under centralized and self-governance mode in the meat sector. Specifically, it was found that self-governance in contrast to centralized governance puts a slightly bigger emphasis on the majority of conditions, namely empowerment and collaboration, transparency and clarity and expertise and skills with regard to successful compliance control. Centralized governance in contrast to self-governance stresses the condition of relational and epistemic independency a little more. In particular, comparing compliance control for regular rules and regulations with “extra-legal” rules and regulations and norms and standards – in practice, the latter puts more emphasis on the theoretical conditions of empowerment and collaboration and enforcement. Based on these findings this study recommends policy makers to particularly enhance their focus on the following conditions to reach successful compliance control under centralized governance (especially with regard to compliance control concerning regular rules and regulations): • Empowerment and collaboration • Enforcement • Transparency and clarity • Expertise and skills Also, this study recommends policy makers to increase their focus on the following conditions to reach successful compliance control under self-governance: • Relational and epistemic independency
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
dc.format.extent3755964
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.titleExploring compliance control under centralized and self-governance in the Dutch meat sector: Some lessons from experiences in the chicken meat sector
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordsCompliance, control, governance, centralized governance, self-governance, inspections, regulations, meat, chicken, NVWA, Beter Leven Kenmerk, IKB Kip, Skal
dc.subject.courseuuSustainable Development


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