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Whither the Commission’s Rules of Procedure?

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It is useful to have rules and to follow them. The EU is a rules-based system. There is no shortage for them. The Commission has lots of them. They have hidden most of them out in plain sight. For example: President’s Political Guidelines – https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/political-guidelines-next-commission_en.pdf Work Programme – https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/2019-commission-work-programme-key-documents_en Working Methods – https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/the_working_methods_of_the_european_commission_2014-2019_november2014_en.pdf Commission’s Rules of Procedure – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:02000Q3614-20111116 … Read more

Environment Committee discuss chemicals legislation

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This morning (4 September) held an exchange of views with the Commission on the findings of the Fitness Check of the most relevant chemicals legislation (excluding REACH) and identified challenges, gaps and weaknesses. If you missed the hour-long exchange, you can watch it again here.   An amazon generated transcript of the exchange is below. Wow, … Read more

Environment Committee elects new leadership

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Chair: Pascal Canfin (Renew, FR) 1st Vice Chair: Bas Eickhout (Greens/EFA, NL) 2nd Vice-Chair: Seb Dance (S&D, UK) 3rd Vice Chair: Cristian-Silviu Busoi (EPP, RO) 4th Vice Chair: Anja Hazekamp (GUE/NGL, NL)