MEPs and states scrap over lawmaking powers

In their capacity as EU Presidency country between July and December 2017 Estonian deputy minister for European Affairs Matti Maasikas met Members of the European Parliament on the 12 September 2017 to discuss whether any progress could be made on the vexed question related to the delineation between implementing and delegated acts in the EU policy making system since the coming into force of the Treaty of Lisbon.

European Commission: Proposal for a Regulation ... adapting a number of legal acts providing for the use of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny to Articles 290 and 291 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union - COM / 2016 / 799 http://www.europeansources.info/record/proposal-for-a-regulation-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-adapting-a-number-of-legal-acts-providing-for-the-use-of-the-regulatory-procedure-with-scrutiny-to-articles-290-and-291-of-the-t/

European Commission: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of legal acts in the area of Justice providing for the use of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny to Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/proposal-for-a-regulation-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-adapting-a-number-of-legal-acts-in-the-area-of-justice-providing-for-the-use-of-the-regulatory-procedure-with-scrutiny-to-articl/

ESO: Background information: Better law-making agreement http://www.europeansources.info/record/better-law-making-agreement/

PACT European Affairs: Comitology.eu Newsletter, No.34, January 2017: Commission unveils fresh Omnibuses to try completing Lisbonisation http://www.pacteurope.eu/sites/default/files/publications-free/Free%20Comitology%20Newsletter%20-%20Jan%202017_0.pdf

PACT European Affairs: Comitology.eu Newsletter: All Issues http://www.pacteurope.eu/publications/free-nl

European Parliament: Press Release, 13.09.17: EU institutions hold kick-off meeting on joint criteria on delegation of powers http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20170913IPR83815/

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