I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
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
One of my favourite West Wing episodes is “Take Out the Trash Day“. It is about burying developments you’d rather not want anyone knowing about. On 18 December 2014 the European Commission announced that “President Juncker appoints Dr Edmund Stoiber Special Adviser for Better Regulation; First Vice-President Timmermans announces reform of the Impact Assessment Board.” … Read more
I am clearing out some old papers and came across some old reports on the Implementation of EU Environmental Law. Well, to be fair, the reports are so old they refer to Community Environmental law. In light of the new direction in Europe of doing very little, if anything, on the environmental front, and … Read more