Comitology

Updated 8 July On 6 July, the full Parliament backed the GMO challenges by large majorities. __________________________________________________________________________________ On Monday 21 June, the Environment Committee debated five challenges – four on authorisation for GMOs (that passed)  and one on animal feed (that did not pass). You can find the results and a video of the final … Read more

I’ve been crunching some numbers with Vote Watch Europe’s new comitology section. From 1 January 2018 to 12 June 2021, the EU has adopted a lot of secondary legislation: 495 delegated acts (Source Register of delegated and implementing acts) 2861 Comitology votes (implementing acts and RPS measures) (source VoteWatch)   Chance to Block The chance … Read more

Updated 10 June   Yesterday, 9 June, the Plenary backed both challenges from the Environment Committee.  See the results below. ________________________________________________________________________ Yesterday, 27 May, the Environment Committee debated two separate challenges on a  MRLs and an active substance. Objection to draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 37-2010 to classify the substance  imidacloprid as … Read more

I’ve never seen a Commissioner visit an EP Committee to defend a piece of secondary legislation. It is usually a Head of Unit who is sent to defend a delegated act, implementing act, or RPS measure. Yesterday, Commissioner Mairead McGuinness,  came to a joint meeting of the ECON and Environment Committee to defend the taxonomy … Read more