I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
From time to time, I am asked to produce a campaign plan to deal with an issue. I have developed a simple checklist. Mirror the Commission’s Agenda. Mirroring back the agenda and language of the people in charge is a simple NLP technique. It works. Do it. It is likely that if you just talk … Read more
I am old enough to have been working on proposals which moved from consultation with the EP to co-decision. When the rules of the game shift it takes a while for people to adjust. On 26 July 2019, many RPS measures moved over to become delegated acts. This includes Classification and Labelling proposals. Under delegated acts, … Read more
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
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