Construction Of CAFTA Food Safety Supervision And Cooperation System

Since the signing of the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation between China and ASEAN on 2002, deepen cooperation between China and The Association of South East Asian Nations lifted the curtain. Starting China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA), trade development between China and ASEAN countries was rapidly developing, ASEAN has became China’s second largest trading partner in the field of food trade. Steady development of the food trade need food safety system escort. The preferential policies of CAFTA could make China a temporary escape from the all kinds of tricks in international food trade barriers. However, after the elimination of trade barriers to promote competition effect also make China must focus on improving the quality and safety, to reply increasing fierce competition in the food trade within the region. Anyway China can’t avoid food safety node. In fact, the substance of CAFTA cooperation means China access to the ASEAN led rule arrangement, not only enhance China’s soft power to solve China and ASEAN in the embarrassing situation of unequal status.China and ASEAN countries has launched a series of cooperation in the field of food safety from all forms of soft law documents into practice at all levels of implementation. Both sides are willing to continue to deepen cooperation in the field of food safety. However, because of objective factors food safety cooperation facing many problems to be solved, such as shallow level cooperation, cooperation form of loose, imperfect legal rules. The distance of the mechanisms for cooperation between the two sides are still far away.It is an innovative action of CAFATA to build cross-regional food safety regulatory system. The system needs not only theoretical but also practice guidelines reference. Therefore, this paper attempts to explore the beneficial experience from the EU food safety supervision course for CAFTA. Some scholars have been arguing, the level of development and degree of regional integration of member states in CAFTA can not be in the same breath with the EU. EU experience does not apply for CAFTA. The current situation is closely related two sides. Undeniably, with horizontal comparison the degree of development of CAFTA is far from the EU as a mature regional organization. The mature experience of EU applicable to tender CAFTA seems a world of difference. But the EU success is not achieved overnight.A high degree of integration also experienced a long and bumpy journey. We can try longitudinal comparison of methods, through analysis of each important stage in the development process of food law and policy and regulatory approach in EU, to explore the current status of the CAFTA, especially in the development for food safety regulatory cooperation on theoretical models and practical experience.Opened coordination mode, it is also known as soft law. It was proposed for EU to solve the democratic deficit and the eastward expansion of the huge differences. Mainly uses in the field of social policy as a new management tool, it is also as a major external governance approach by EU for global governance. Despite the EU food safety regulatory governance never use that theory, but it can not affect the theory to provide thoughts for built food safety cooperation in CAFTA. The main content of this article is under the guidance of soft law governance theory, how to reference EU rapidly alert system, scientific risk assessment information system etc. Finally, step by step to construct the CAFTA cooperation in food safety regulatory system.