Comitology

Yesterday,  Monday 28 September, the environment committee backed a cross-party (Greens, S&D, Renew, GUE, NI and some of the EPP) challenge to maximum levels of acrylamide in certain foodstuffs for infants and young children. Peter Liese (EPP) supported the Commission’s proposal (he welcomed limit values). The ECR rejected the objection, backing the Commission’s proposal, as … Read more

There have been two recent cases – E171 and flumioxazine – where the Commission submitted comitology proposals for scrutiny to the European Parliament that did not allow the EP the time to effectively scrutinise the proposal. There is no better way to unify MEPs than to give the perception of trying to by-pass the limited … Read more

This evening, 7 September, the Environment Committee backed the challenge by 51 votes to 11 against and 16 abstentions. The Commission announced their intention of withdrawing the proposed measure if the vote went against them. You can re-watch the exchange of views here.   ______________________________________________________________________________________ The memo not to poke the European Parliament when it … Read more

Going through the last twenty year of successful challenges by the Council and the European Parliament to delegated acts, RPS measures and implementing acts, the following observations can be made:   The challenge rate is low – under 1%. The Interinstitutional Register on Delegated acts (link) makes tracking them easy. Following comitology (implementing acts and … Read more