Report from the Commission on the working of committees during 2012

In accordance with Article 10(2) of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (the ‘Comitology Regulation’), the Commission hereby presents the annual report on the working of committees for 2012.

This report contains an overview of developments in the comitology system in 2012 and a summary of the committees’ activities. It is accompanied by a staff working document containing detailed statistics on the work of the individual committees.

As described in the report from 2011, all comitology procedures provided for in the ‘old’ Comitology Decision, with the exception of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny (RPS), were automatically adapted to the new comitology procedures provided for in the Comitology Regulation. Therefore in 2012, the comitology committees have been operating under the procedures set out in the Comitology Regulation, i.e. advisory and examination, as well as under the RPS.

In accordance with the statement made at the moment of the adoption of the Comitology Regulation that it would adapt all the RPS provisions in existing basic acts to the criteria laid down in the Treaty, the Commission started a preliminary screening exercise in 2012 which resulted in the adoption of the necessary alignment proposals in 2013. By the end of 2012, 133 comitology committees had adopted their new individual rules of procedure on the basis of Standard Rules of procedure for comitology committees adopted on 8 July 2011.

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)701: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:701:FIN

EUR-Lex: SWD(2013)419: Presentation of committee activities in 2012 by policy sector http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2013:419:FIN

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