Comitology

An interesting cross party challenge to the Complementary Delegated Act  that addresses economic activities in the natural gas and nuclear energy sectors. It is a cross Party backed challenge. That increases the chance of success for any challenge. Will it get 353 votes in the full Parliament and deliver a veto? It would spare Austria … Read more

On 6 December 2021, the Environment Committee considered the 3rd objection to the MRLs for flonicamid. The debate is worth listening to. The challenge failed.  The S&D did not support the challenge, so it fell.  There were clear signs of a lot of background briefings on the issue by the Commission on the details of … Read more

There are a few cases when a healthy majority vote in the Committee to veto a delegated act or RPS measure has not met the absolute majority threshold in the full Parliament.   Success leaves clues It is useful to look at why these outcomes occurred.  They are rare. They don’t happen by accident, and … Read more

On 11 October 2021, the Econ- Environment Committee dealt with a challenge to a NFRD delegated act. Subject: Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the content and presentation of information to be disclosed by undertakings subject to Articles 19a or 29a of Directive 2013/34/EU … Read more