The feedback from the public consultation can be useful. It can raise points officials don’t like to hear and show that an issue is more sensitive than they ever thought.
Sunlight in lawmaking is healthy but some people think it gives a bad skin rash.
Due to the switch over of CLP ATP updates to delegated acts, the Commission ran a public consultation for the 14th ATP. You can find it here.
At the time, the Commission Services were instructed to do this by the Secretariat-General. They say it was a clerical error.
You can understand why. Afterwards, a lot of Member States used the evidence brought up in the public consultation as the basis to vote against the proposal.
I guess that bad experience is the reason why they have dropped the feedback period for the 15th ATP.