Comitology

Update On 24 November, the first challenge against the restriction on lead shot was rejected. 292 votes for, 362 votes against 39 abstentions. The track record of files being defeated in Committee and coming back again in the plenary is not a good one.   ____________________________________________________________   Today, 29 October, was a busy day for … Read more

On Wednesday 7 October, the European Parliament backed two Environment Committee’s comitology challenges. The challenges to measures the Acrylamide and E171 easily passed the threshold of 353 votes. DG SANTE is sent back to the drawing board to consider what to do.  

Yesterday,  Monday 28 September, the environment committee backed a cross-party (Greens, S&D, Renew, GUE, NI and some of the EPP) challenge to maximum levels of acrylamide in certain foodstuffs for infants and young children. Peter Liese (EPP) supported the Commission’s proposal (he welcomed limit values). The ECR rejected the objection, backing the Commission’s proposal, as … Read more

There have been two recent cases – E171 and flumioxazine – where the Commission submitted comitology proposals for scrutiny to the European Parliament that did not allow the EP the time to effectively scrutinise the proposal. There is no better way to unify MEPs than to give the perception of trying to by-pass the limited … Read more