Comitology

Updated 10 June   Yesterday, 9 June, the Plenary backed both challenges from the Environment Committee.  See the results below. ________________________________________________________________________ Yesterday, 27 May, the Environment Committee debated two separate challenges on a  MRLs and an active substance. Objection to draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 37-2010 to classify the substance  imidacloprid as … Read more

I’ve never seen a Commissioner visit an EP Committee to defend a piece of secondary legislation. It is usually a Head of Unit who is sent to defend a delegated act, implementing act, or RPS measure. Yesterday, Commissioner Mairead McGuinness,  came to a joint meeting of the ECON and Environment Committee to defend the taxonomy … Read more

Updated 29 April   Yesterday,  15 April, the Environment Committee debated two separate challenges to the same MRL measure: Commission Regulation amending Annexes II, III and IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for aclonifen, acrinathrin, Bacillus pumilus QST 2808, chlorantraniliprole, ethirimol, lufenuron, … Read more

The record of the EP backing the Environment Committee’s challenges to some active substances and GMOs continues unbroken. On 10 March, the full Parliament backed the Committee  with clear majorities. As they are implementing acts, the Commission will ignore the EP. The constant trends on these file will become interesting when the ordinary legislation come … Read more