I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
I was not expecting to start so quickly on following the environment committee’s challenges to the comitology decisions. Yesterday, the Environment committee backed two challenges to implementing acts on GMOs and pesticides. The size of the majority is substantial. Pesticides ENVI objects to the extension of approval period for pesticides flumioxazine (47/22/1) and chlorotoluron Rapporteur: … Read more
In this piece, I look at the grounds for the successful challenge and look to provide more background. Grounds: legal and Commission stepping into Member States’ competence. Everything below is based on publically available sources. It’s just a time-consuming process. The development of the files shows a lack of political deft touch by the … Read more
It’s time to take a deeper dive into the successful challenges to delegated acts (link). The Commission’s register of delegated acts makes the job a lot easier. The creaking comitology register makes the job a lot harder. The Council launched five successful challenges, and the European Parliament ten. In the same time, 814 delegated acts … Read more
Just before the new European Parliament starts work, it’s a good time to look at the successful challenges to secondary legislation dealing with chemicals by the European Parliament. I have looked at five successful challenges in the last Parliament: four REACH Authorisations and one RoHS exemption. The Council did not raise any objections on secondary … Read more