Lessons in Comitology – Challenges in relation to chemicals

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Just before the new European Parliament starts work, it’s a good time to look at the successful challenges to secondary legislation dealing with chemicals by the European Parliament. I have looked at five successful challenges in the last Parliament:  four REACH Authorisations and one RoHS exemption. The Council did not raise any objections on secondary … Read more

The New Fisheries Committee – the names I have so far

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The new Fisheries Committee is being set up.

The members I know who have put their names forward are below.

I have indicated if they are full member by F or a substitute by S.

When the Committee’s membership is confirmed, I’ll update this.

 

A useful tool for a Brussels lobbyist

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As a lobbyist, I try and spend a lot of my time outside the office. It’s hard to influence decision makers from an internal meeting.  I’ve been looking for a system that quickly and easily takes my meeting notes and writes them up for me. The software is advancing. I used to use a dictaphone … Read more

A flight plan for ATP

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  A chemical lobbyist will spend a lot of their time dealing with updates to the ATP. I’ve taken the timeline for one substance – Formaldehyde – that was part of the 6thATP. I’ve detailed the long journey as I think it is a good case study for these reasons: First, it is a regular … Read more