Publications

“Private Voluntary Standards within the WTO Multilateral Framework”, Legal analysis in the study commissioned by the United Kingdom Department for International Development under the Programme of Advisory and Support Services (WTO document G/SPS/GEN/802 of 9 October 2007).

“TBT and Agriculture: Some examples”, in “Agriculture in WTO Law”, Cameron May Ltd, July 2005, Ignacio Carreño.

“The new labelling regime in the EC on allergen ingredients in foodstuffs” – Food and Drug Law Journal, October 2005
(Volume 60, No.3, p. 375).

“Safeguard measures in EC food law” (with Gijs Berends) – European Law Review, June 2005 (Volume 30, No. 3, p. 386).

“Barriers to Trade in the Food Law of the EU Candidate Countries?” – Zeitschrift für Lebensmittelrecht (Germany) 6/2002, p. 804-813.

JOSÉ IGNACIO CARREÑO GARCÍA

José Ignacio Carreño García is a German lawyer (of Spanish nationality) with a Master’s degree in EU law from the University Carlos III in Madrid. He graduated in law at the University of Bielefeld, Germany where he also completed a European and International Trade Law Program.

Between 1997 and 1999 he worked in different German Institutions and trained in law firms in Düsseldorf and Barcelona.

He has been practising in Brussels since 2000. He specialises in EU food and agricultural law and has been involved in a wide variety of projects regarding the approximation of food and agricultural law in the Central and Eastern European Countries.

Since 2000 he has worked on a number of Court cases at the General Court of the EU and on issues such as the free movement of agricultural products and foodstuffs within the Community, WTO market access, sanitary and phytosanitary regulation, technical barriers to trade, product safety, plant protection products and food labelling.

Ignacio has reviewed the food law of all countries which have joined the EU in May 2004 and in 2007 to verify compliance with EU law.

In January 2008 he joined the trade team of FratiniVergano, where he is responsible for internal market, agriculture and food law. Ignacio is member of the Düsseldorf Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer) and the Brussels Bar (e-list). He is also a member of the Spanish/German Association of Lawyers.