Comitology

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

On 10 July, the full EP did not back the Environment Committee’s 10 June challenge to the authorisation to chromium trioxide. The EP was split on the issue. 325 were against, 325  for, and 35 abstained. The EPP, ECR, IDG and nearly half of the Renew group voted against the challenge. This ensured the motion … Read more

On 10 July, the full European Parliament backed the challenge against the authorisation of flumioxazine. A deep dive via Vote Watch, gives you a better indication of how political groups voted. Support for the challenge was for 415, 252, and 20 abstentions. The challenge met the threshold required to pass (354 votes).  That is 60% … Read more