Il tentativo fallito di equiparare agricoltura biologica e biodinamica: un caso per riflettere sull’opportunità di introdurre la consulenza scientifica in Parlamento

The aim of this paper is to analyse the information imbalance between institutions and practical reality through the study of a concrete case. The law intended to equate the method of biodynamic farming with that of organic farming allows for a cross-cutting investigation. The issue involves themes that are now essential to the constitutional debate: the relationship between politics and science, legislative discretion and the problem of constraints arising from notions borrowed from technology and science. Furthermore, the analysis of the instrument of the informal hearing in the parliamentary enquiry leads the research to question the appropriateness of introducing scientific advice in Parliament. An operation perhaps required to balance the forementioned information asymmetry.