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EFTA has opened up the secret world of EU law making by delegated legislation. You can visit the site here or http://www.efta.int/eea-lex They have put on line draft and adopted implementing and delegated acts that impact EFTA members. This is a big step to open law making. Whilst Member States and the European Parliament – and the … Read more

On 19th May the European Commission pushed through their new “Better Regulation Package”.  President Juncker has made a big play about better regulation. He wants the EU to focus only a few areas and get rid of laws on the statute book that are not working. You’d think no-one was against the idea of better … Read more

1st Vice President Timmermans is dragging the European Commission into the 21st century. He is behind the excellent idea of allowing for public consultations on many draft EU laws. At the moment, the public only get to see a small minority of draft EU laws. The majority of delegated legilsation is never made public until … Read more

Today, DG SANTE published some of the responses to their public consultation on EDC. You can see their news here. The strange thing is the submissions are anonymous. To save you time, I have uploaded the large file. edc consultation Other public consultations I have followed (see here on CFP) have seen the Commission putting the … Read more