I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
I’m updating some chapters in a book, and I wanted to check if the common view in Brussels that the VDL I Commission flooded the system with ordinary legislative proposals, was true. The easiest way to do this was to look at the Commission’s own data and see how many ordinary legislative laws were adopted … Read more
Chapter: Working With Delegated and Implementing Acts Commission-23-11-2020 DA-IA guideline EP Handbook on Delegated and Implementing Acts EP IPOL background note delegated and implementing acts March 2010 (2) Old Guidelines IAoldda-SEC-2011-855-1-EN-MAIN-PART-1.PDF EPRS_BRI(2022)739257_EN Links Delegated Acts: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/regdel/#/home Implementing Acts: http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regcomitology/index.cfm?do=implementing.home Regulatory Scrutiny: http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regcomitology/index.cfm?do=implementing.home Chapter: Working with the Commission Upcoming Items for the College 04:12:2024 – Item … Read more
I’m just updating some chapters for Alan Hardacre’s “How to Work With the EU Institutions”. The update is made easier by being able to draw on a package of checklists and case studies of the everyday procedures an EU lobbyist deals with. What strikes me is that most of the procedures lobbyists work on repeat … Read more
When you are working to bring about a policy change you’ll need different skills sets at different times of the getting the law/policy you want. You’ll also need patience, persistence, and a long time horizon. It takes between 10-15 years from the conception of an idea to it being taken up in law and being … Read more