If you are new to lobbying in general and chemical lobbying in particular, here are a series of practical posts that may be useful.
Some of the posts need updating. The reference to the legislative procedure may have shifted from RPS to delegated act and the votes changed after the UK left.
Chemical lobbying
A Primer on Chemical Lobbying
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/so-you-want-to-lobby-on-chemicals-a-rough-primer/
Procedures for regulating substances – needs updating
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/procedures-for-regulating-substances-in-one-easy-table/
Lessons Learned
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/some-further-reflections-on-dealing-with-substance-classifications/
CLP
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/some-further-reflections-on-dealing-with-substance-classifications/
Do you need to do an Impact Assessment on a CLP classification.
ATP Update – needs to be revised in light of delegated act procedure
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/a-flight-plan-for-atp/
REACH
REACH Restriction
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/a-road-map-for-a-reach-restriction/
checklist for a REACH Restriction
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/my-personal-checklist-for-a-reach-restriction/
Commission
Transition
Transition from one Commission to another for an ongoing legislative file
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/a-long-legislative-journey-a-journal/
Getting your issue taken up in a new Commission
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/what-you-can-do-to-get-your-issue-taken-up-in-the-next-commission/
What is a politically sensitive file
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/whats-politically-sensitive-and-why-does-it-matter-unsure/
How to avoid any action on your file
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/21-ways-to-make-sure-the-commission-does-not-act-on-your-issue/
When to step in
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/when-should-you-step-in-to-get-the-proposal-you-want/
Ordinary legislation
What to do at the start
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/99-questions-to-answer-to-prepare-your-eu-legislative-campaign/
What to do when a proposal is first published
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/first-thing-you-do-when-the-proposal-is-out-the-door/
The case to step in early
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/are-you-stepping-in-too-late-the-case-for-starting-early/
Stepping in late
How to
Policy writing
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/one-approach-for-policy-writing/
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/3-checklists-for-your-public-policy-communication/
For scientitists to effectively communicate with policy makers
Position Papers
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/the-internal-mechanics-of-preparing-a-position-paper/
Issue updates
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/what-to-put-in-an-issue-update/
Present data and evidence
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/how-a-lobbyist-can-present-the-data-and-information/
letters that are ignored
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/5835-2/
responding to public consultations
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/responding-to-a-public-consultation-checkli/
Process for policy writing
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/is-there-a-better-way-to-communicate-your-position/
Internal meetings
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/how-to-give-smarter-presentations-and-have-shorter-meetings/
Checklist
Why is your message not landing
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/why-is-your-message-not-landing/
On meetings
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/6293-2/
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/5-ways-to-get-back-25-of-your-day-in-an-instant/
Votes
What votes do you need
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/what-votes-do-you-need-to-get-what-you-want/
Comitology/Secondary Legislation
General lessons learned on chemical challenges.
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/lessons-in-comitology-challenges-in-relation-to-chemicals/
ENVI Challenges in 2023
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/comitology-challenges-in-2023/
ENVI Challenges 2019-2022
ENVI Challenges in 2019
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/3291-2/
A 20 year survey of ENVI challenges
How to challenge secondary legislation
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/how-to-turn-around-a-defeat-in-comitology/
Why it is hard to challenge the Commission
Why challenges succeed
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/some-trends-in-environment-committee-comitology-challenges/
Grounds to challenge a delegated act
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/delegated-acts-grounds-for-successful-challenges/
Whose support do you need
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/an-easy-way-to-know-if-your-issue-will-get-adopted/
A case when the Commission withdraw the measure when a challenge succeeds in the ENVI Committee
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/environment-committee-to-challenge-e171-rps-measure/
A challenge on a REACH Restriction
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/a-deeper-look-into-the-pvc-and-lead-restriction-vote/
Re-tabling a challenge at plenary after it fails at Committee stage
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/what-to-do-if-the-committee-does-not-back-your-comitology-challenge/
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/tio2-objection-re-tabled-to-the-plenary/
What to do if you think there is a challenge
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/what-to-do-if-your-delegated-act-is-about-to-be-challenged/
Delegated act – update under RohS
https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/the-legislative-journey-of-a-delegated-act/