I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
Better Regulation and Delegated Legislation On the expectation that few people (in or outside the Commission) read the rules about how the Commission operate and prepare laws ( and the same rules they fortunately publish), I wanted to provide a brief summary of how the new Commission Better Regulation rules impact delegated legislation. The … Read more
Environment Committee Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation 2015-2016 I have chosen the Environment Committee as it is the Committee I know best and it is still the, or one of the most, active legislative Committees in the European Parliament. It is, by some distance, still the most experienced legislative committee in the European Parliament in the … Read more
“Who will guard against the Guardians”. Juvenal. Most EU legislation is delegated legislation. Around 93% (and perhaps more) of EU law adopted each year is delegated legislation. The remaining is ordinary (co-decision) legislation, where most NGOs and trade associations spend most of their time and resources, often with marginal substantive impact. Most NGOs and trade associations … Read more
Laws made under the glare of publicity tend to be better laws than those made in secret. For a long time I always thought that “sunshine” requirements to law making were a good thing, and then I moved to Brussels, and found out that I was wrong, or at least I had an unhealthy fetish … Read more