Comitology

Delegated Acts – Grounds for Successful Challenges

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In this piece, I look at the grounds for the successful challenge and look to provide more background.   Grounds: legal and Commission stepping into Member States’ competence. Everything below is based on publically available sources.  It’s just a time-consuming process. The development of the files shows a lack of political deft touch by the … Read more

Challenging delegated acts – an update

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It’s time to take a deeper dive into the successful challenges to delegated acts (link). The Commission’s register of delegated acts makes the job a lot easier. The creaking comitology register makes the job a lot harder. The Council launched five successful challenges, and the European Parliament ten. In the same time, 814 delegated acts … Read more

Lessons in Comitology – Challenges in relation to chemicals

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Just before the new European Parliament starts work, it’s a good time to look at the successful challenges to secondary legislation dealing with chemicals by the European Parliament. I have looked at five successful challenges in the last Parliament:  four REACH Authorisations and one RoHS exemption. The Council did not raise any objections on secondary … Read more

A flight plan for ATP

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  A chemical lobbyist will spend a lot of their time dealing with updates to the ATP. I’ve taken the timeline for one substance – Formaldehyde – that was part of the 6thATP. I’ve detailed the long journey as I think it is a good case study for these reasons: First, it is a regular … Read more