ABSTRACT
The two case-studies discussed in this study are the directive regulating the natural gas market, the Gas directive 1 (98/30/EC) and the directive regulating the legal protection of biotechnological inventions, hereafter referred to as the Biopatent directive 2 (98/44/EC, see chapter 8). The purpose is to analyse how the Dutch government has attempted to shape these directives and which variables have determined its shaping capacity. The cases are reconstructed with the help of a policy tracing technique, ‘intensive process analysis’, the successive phases of which determine the organisation of this chapter.
