I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
An interesting case on 21 April of the EP scrutinising secondary legislation in a time of crisis. The Environment Committee did their job of scrutinising an item of secondary legislation. They voted against it. Because of the limited meetings and agenda of the European Parliament, they’ll run out of time to vote on the … Read more
You’d think that during the crisis, that the Commission would put on hold the flow of non-COVID 19 proposals. You’d be wrong. The work putting forward new, but non-critical, secondary legislation continues. It would seem that many departments have taken up the deep green mantra that ‘everything is connected to everything’. They reason that if … Read more
The flow of public consultations or secondary legislation does not look like it is going to slow up, even during a crisis. An important step is for the Parliament and the Council to scrutinise the Commission. Today, they are neutered in their ability to give deep scrutiny to the flow of new initiatives and secondary … Read more
Happy to report that it is 1 October 2021. The Commission will publish an update on 25 February 2020. Good lawmaking is meant to be clear. I hope it is not controversial to suggest you can read the law and know when to apply it. And, if like in the EU, where the legal texts … Read more