Comitology challenges in 2023

Comitology challenges in 2023 You can look at other years here and here. The ENVI Committee met 23 times in 2023. During this time, the Committee considered 19 challenges to implementing acts, delegated acts, and RPS measures. As in previous years, the challenges were centred around a few issues: GMOs, pesticides, and MRLs. Below, you … Read more

Some lessons learned from the new CLP Delegated Act on new hazard classes

Sometime tomorrow, 20 February, a new Delegated Act will be published.  amending Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as regards hazard classes and criteria for the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures  I will add the final text tomorrow. I thought I’d take a quiet Sunday to try and recreate the key dates from my … Read more

The lack of public scrutiny of EU secondary legislation

  I remember folklore children’s tales making the point that lawmaking should be public. Draft laws were posted in the town square giving all – peasants, traders and rich – the opportunity to give feedback. It is something I wish the Commission adopted. Most EU laws don’t benefit from public feedback. In tandem with this, … Read more